If you found a shopping bag in a parking lot...

[Anonymous]

I would either leave it or return it to the store.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've always returned things. Right before one Christmas I was leaving ToysRUs and find a brand new gaming console in the bottom of a shopping carriage. I returned it back to the store. I just hoped the person who left it, came back for it. They're so expensive and that could really ruin the holidays.

I seem to find lots of wallets too and have always been able to track down their owners.

But one time I did find a $50 bill on the sidewalk. I kept that. How was I going to find who lost that?

I agree about something on the sidewalk in the city when there's no obvious place to return it - that is basically a tough luck situation. Although I have seen facebook posts on community pages seeking owners of random lost things found on sidewalks. But if you find something inside of or right in front of a specific store and the bag clearly has that store's name on it I think the right thing to do is to grab it and drop it at customer service on your way in (even on the way out if you aren't in a hurry).

[Anonymous]

I would have returned it if a store was right there.

One time I found a TJ maxx gift card in the parking lot and took it back to the store--the clerk looked at me like I was crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have returned it if a store was right there.

One time I found a TJ maxx gift card in the parking lot and took it back to the store--the clerk looked at me like I was crazy.

I saw that clerk at TJ maxx that afternoon!!

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the ghetto

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on if the tops are my style/size (I suck, I know...but it's the truth).

Just remember, pp, karma is a bitch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you keep it or turn it into the store? I unknowingly dropped a bag with a few tops in it ($40 worth) when folding my stroller and drove off. I realized my mistake 2 minutes down the road. I turned around fully expecting it to either still be there or someone to have turned it into the store since I was parked right in front. Sadly it was gone and no one turned anything in. I really couldn't believe it. Are most people really that awful? I'm a SAHM without a lot of discretionary money so it was something nice to do for myself and it totally freaking ruined my day. 2 days ago and still upset.

No, most people aren't that awful. All it takes is one, though.

+1

I found two shopping bags full of new purchases inside a Bloomingdale's recently. I empathized with the person who left it behind (it could have been a new mom with no sleep and lots on her mind; or someone that lost both her parents and was grieving - and either was me, not long ago); and I don't "need" the money, so I turned it into the closest cashier, hoping that the person would come back for it, and the cashier would be honest.

I think it depends on where, OP. In general, different types of people react by doing the right thing - or the wrong thing, depending how they were raised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends on if the tops are my style/size (I suck, I know...but it's the truth).

Just remember, pp, karma is a bitch.

+1

I truly believe this. The person that swiped it gets what they give, OP - don't worry about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the ghetto

+1

[Anonymous]

Man people suck -- I mean just look at the people here who are saying they'd take the tops if they were their size or their daughters' size or that they gave housewares they found to their DIL. WTF? And this is the same site where people brag continuously about their wealth -- how making 250k is NOTHING and they couldn't possibly live off that. And for those who will say -- well if I can't find the owner, there's nothing I could do so may as well take it. Well you could always just walk on by and leave the package where it is or move it to the nearest light pole or store entrance if it's in the way; you don't HAVE TO take it home with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would take it in to the store.

More than once I've left my wallet in a grocery cart while transferring bags to the car and each time (2 or 3 times in 10 years) it's been turned into the customer service desk. Probably by the grocery store workers, but maybe by other customers.

Last week, I found a purse in a shopping cart and I turned it into he customer service desk. I waited a bit, thinking the owner might return, but there was no way I would leave it, as some suggest. There are too many people like pp around.

[Anonymous]

I have returned things to the store before, that were sitting on a bench.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if in some instances it would be better to take the item with you and leave your contact info with customer service. I'd hate to hand money or a purse over to a dishonest employee - maybe someone raised by the PPs here.

[Anonymous]

Return it. No question.

The answers to this and the question about finding money in the baseboard explain a hell of a lot about the politics of this country. Far too many Americans are self-centered assholes. It's scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You had me until you wanted me to feel bad for you for being a SAHM. Get a job and you won't have this problem and you might have somewhere to go that's worthy of new clothes.

STFU, ugly twat

Pot, meet kettle.