Would this be a criminal offence?

if i noticed in store i would speak up and tell them. but if i got out and then noticed after the fact i would consider it like a lucky community chest card in monoply.

i dont see how it could be a legal issue as they could not prove you took it deliberately and it was the shop keepers mistake.

i have had a few after the fact mistakes........ our home burglar alarm of all things didnt scan correctly at Focus DIY centre (it was a massive shop but even so i was surprised how cheap it came to) so i never paid for it.......... i didnt return it, however karma got me there as it was a terrible unit and constantly went off until i disabled it.

OTOH when i sent my xbox 360 back to argos for an RROD the guy there gave me a brand new one complete with harddisk despite me only taking the chassis back.

i felt bad on that as the guy seemed quite nice and i didnt want him to get in trouble so i sent the new harddisk and cables back later in the day. i doubt there was much they could have done if i didnt however
 
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I remember when I was about 7 spending the Easter holidays at my mums aunty's in London. I went to the corner shop with a Scottish pound note and made a point in my Scottish accent to tell the cashier it was a pound note. He ended up giving me change for a fiver! I said nothing and quickly left the shop.
 
Think of it as a reverse tip, which I'm sure you gave to charity anyway.

On a related note, some joker has glued a 20p piece to the floor outside my local shopping arcade Indian takeaway. Must get no end of people spotting it and going for a crafty "Oh, my shoelaces need adjusting" move. Myself included. You'd need a hammer and chisel to shift it, and that's assuming it isn't actually on a spike driven in to the pavement.
 
back in the days.. I can remember plent of shops with signs like "check your change before you leave"...
I guess this is in reverse, if the shop doesn't check that they handed you the correct change and given you more.. that's their issue.

The girls who work at my Chinese takeaway sucks at maths, they are always getting the charge amount and change wrong.. so I always work it out quickly while waiting for the food.
 
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The girls who work at my Chinese takeaway sucks at maths, they are always getting the charge amount and change wrong.. so I always work it out quickly while waiting for the food.
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Girls at Chinese takeaways are always quite good for money laundering purposes. Handy if you ever get given a Singapore dollar coin(spitting image of a uk pound and worth about 45p) from somewhere else and need to palm it off the next day. Mingle it in would some actual pound coins and keep a straight face and listen for the cash register ping when they go round the back, and jobs a good un. Plus you get a succulent Chinese meal out of it.
 
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