They will write it off as a loss on their taxes. Part of doing business to expect some losses.

it will all balance out, whether you return it or not

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Anonymous wrote:depends on the store. if it is a store I do not respect, then I just keep it.

Why do you shop at a store that you do not respect?

walmart is cheap, still hate it.

I wouldn't bother. I would figure that there's enough times that I've gotten double charged or a sale price doesn't come through or, my favorite, the salesperson forgets to take the security tag thing off (and yet the alarm doesn't go off so there I am with a useless item) that it would all come out in the end. I'm a very honest person, but I don't need to go way out of my way for someone else's mistake. Likely no one will ever know and if u took the item back they would probably wonder why you were bothering. I would def say something if I concretely noticed while the person was ringing up, but it sounds like OP really wasn't paying attention.

Check the receipt. Sounds like OP bought several low priced similar items ...store receipt might show buy 1 get 1.

I've been at stores where checkers point out the 2 fers and didn't know it while shopping. If it really was a missed item I'd return it-just go to customer service.

Anonymous wrote:DS shoplifted a candy bar when he was 11 months old. He grabbed it at the checkout while I was putting items on the belt. I noticed in the parking lot but I had two crying babies and I wasn't about to head back in. Next time I went to that store I had the cashier ring up the same candy bar DS had stolen.

That's totally different though. Of course I would pay for something that I took by accident without paying. But, if it's in plain sight and the cashier doesn't ring it up, that's her problem.

Anonymous wrote:depends on the store. if it is a store I do not respect, then I just keep it.

Why do you shop at a store that you do not respect?

depends on the store. if it is a store I do not respect, then I just keep it.

I go back for large items but small items at a store I regularly frequent I don't worry about (it's happened maybe twice). I don't always return stuff that's bad (in the bag that I don't discover until later, like cheese in a wrapper) so I do think sometimes it all comes out in the wash.

DS shoplifted a candy bar when he was 11 months old. He grabbed it at the checkout while I was putting items on the belt. I noticed in the parking lot but I had two crying babies and I wasn't about to head back in. Next time I went to that store I had the cashier ring up the same candy bar DS had stolen.

Nope. It won't be taken out of their paycheck. The only way the employee gets dinged for this is if they ring it up but don't take the money for it.

But if you made a mistake wrt to money and didn't know it, wouldn't you want the person to let you know? If you let it go, it whittles down your character. Don't start veering off path little by little.

Anonymous wrote:Kept it. I put it on the counter, they didn't ring it up----I made no attempt to conceal or defraud. Their loss, my freebee

This. I never intentially try to take things, but it's not my job to ring items up or to check that the cashier does it correctly. A more common situation is that I've had cashiers incorrectly apply a coupon (at a clothing store), so items cost less than they should have. Not my problem; the store should train their employees better or have better quality control checks.

heck no. keep it. you need the $ more than the store does.

WTF? Are you for real?

me again...I always think of it this way. I'd sure go back if they overcharged me, so that means I should go back if they missed an item, too.

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