Posted by oldtanker on April 17, 2016 at 08:40:19 from (64.118.3.19):
In Reply to: Harbor Frieght Deal posted by mongo6318 on April 17, 2016 at 06:24:34:
Actually they would have a hard time prosecuting anyone for that. They didn't steal anything. They paid for an item and were charged the wrong price so it's the stores error. Had they not looked at the receipt they never would have known. I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted because of a store error.
Now as far as personal integrity is concerned? No it isn't honest. But most of us have a sense of revenge and will take that revenge if the opportunity is presented.
When I was an NCO we had Officer/NCO professional development classes once a week. At one the Battalion Commander got up set 2 cans of pop on a desk and said that he had a dilemma. He claimed to have stopped to get a pop, put money in a machine and had gotten 2 pops instead of one. His dilemma? Do you think yourself lucky or do you contact the vending company and either pay for the extra pop or return it. He proceeded to call on people to answer that question. The first 15 or so people gave the answer they thought he wanted to hear, that they would contact the vendor. When he called on me I told him that I would consider myself lucky and either drink it myself or give it to a friend. I was excused from class but my fellow NCO's told me later that he chewed into them because I was the only guy who told him the truth. Would it have been stealing? I would have honestly put money in expecting to get what I paid for, 1 pop. Is it my fault that the machine malfunctioned?
As far as the cashier being in trouble? How? They don't do inventory daily. And they won't catch that error until they complete and inventory. And there will be know way to figure out when that item came up missing and no, they will not spend many man hours tracking what really is an inexpensive item. Most likely what they will do in that store, depending on total shrinkage, is increase security believing that an item that large was stolen by an employee.
Had something happened to me I would most likely never have known. I'd have gotten my change and the receipt, stuck them in my wallet and gone home. I kinda keep track of what I'm buying by thinking "I'm under X dollar amount". If I go over that I look at the receipt. If not I go home and toss it in the receipt box and never look at again until tax time. The only time something like that happened to me was with a set of lifters for an engine. They came in a box of 8 with each one being in it's own smaller box. They scanned the big box, charged me 7.95 for one and then the rest of the stuff I was picking up. I noticed it about 6 months later at tax time. The parts store had closed it's doors shortly after I bought them so I never had the opportunity to make it right. In that case I knew I was going to spend somewhere between 400 and 500 dollars that day. Total price was just over 400.
Isn't there a book someplace that says something about judging people?
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