So I was at the chippy...

you've got me hungry now..couild you lend me a £5 to get some fish & chips :)

I'd have given it back and £2.50 for sausage and chips is a bloody rip off! nearly as much as a cup of tea..yes HOT WATER :)
 
A friend of mine had a similar incident and he paused for a second and then done the honest thing - we spoke about it later and he said he was considering it but didn't bother :p

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After re-reading that, I'm tempted to "Cool Story Bro" myself :p :p
 
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Actually just reminded me (short story version)

When i was a student i worked in an Oxford pub.
Posh rich nob kinda guy ordered 2 beers and paid me with a tenner.
I gave him the correct change.
20 mins later he came back and asked me if i gave him 2 £10 notes to which i replied err no of course not,
I checked later when he left and it was a to my surprise he had - they were fresh out of an ATM and perfectly on top of each other.
I lolled and kept one!

If that makes me a bad person then good ! I was a poor student!
 
It's happened to me twice and on both occasions I've highlighted the issue and returned the money. Perhaps it's because both times it's happened with the nice old gal who used to work in the newsagent around the corner from my office, or maybe it's because I'm a nice guy and I'd do it in any circumstances - who knows...and who cares :D
 
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my wife used to work on the tills in some supermarket when she was around 17 years old and she claims that if a till is short the manager always gave the person on the till a bollocking and if the till was over you also got a bollocking.

maybe your manager is lazy and doesnt cash up properly
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In big supermarkets that's quite hard.

Lets say 25 tills open most of the day.

The people manning those will start at different times of the day, will swap over with other cashiers to take breaks, go for lunch and end their shift to let someone else carry on. I'm not sure if some have specific people for specific tills but I know some supermarkets just allocate tills more or less at random.

At busy times when there are not enough cashiers staff from other departments who are also till trained may be called to operate the tills until queues go down.

Yes they log in on different numbers but there is no way of telling how each dealt with the money.

So all in all, fairly difficult to trace mistakes with money at the till unless it's something utterly blatant that seems to follows someone.
 
I'd have given the money back and have done on many occasions. Last time was in Tesco couple of weeks back when young chap gave me change from £20 although I had only given him £10 and did not notice until I sat down to have a coffee in the restaurant but still went back to till and gave him the money back... :)
 
Reminds me of the time when DHL left my 78year old neighbours parcel at my house... a 40' Sony LCD TV. The reason he didnt answer the door was because he had infact died. So Being the Nice guy that i am , i plugged my PS3 into it and ive had it eversince.
 
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On the couple of occassions where I have been given too much change and have noticed I have handed it back. Not my money.
 
Went into a electrical superstore the other day, bought a TV for £179.99, when got home realised they had made the mistake of giving us the model up from what we had bought which cost £210.99, is a 30 mile journey to and from said superstore, so didn't go back
 
Local chippy (city centre) has switched from lard to oil and from cutting their own chips to frozen ones. Disgusting.

Anyway, I only correct people's change mistakes if they're not *****. Again, being in the city centre, most people that serve me would rather be doing anything else. Unimpressed. Few exceptions (e.g. M&S). Karmic cost.
 
happens regularly at my local shop except the other way round even when buying just two items the guy still manages to ring up some strange prices. what's worse is that he scans the items first. it must work for him though as he keeps doing it lol

to the op if the guy had just given change id have pocketed it but if he asked me how much id given i couldnt lie
 
I'd have done the same and have done in the past.

But if I dont notice and have already left the shop upon realising then ill keep it (ie at home, in transport e.t.c)
 
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