Unpaid for items realized later in the day?

I would have returned it. I work as a cashier at a retail store, and one of the first things I learned was that items that are rung up incorrectly on the register, or not rung up at all, cause a problem with our inventory system, which can cause other problems later in the day.

Say you kept the DS. If the store had sold all of the systems on the floor, and someone came in looking for a DS lite, the floor associate would have checked the sales floor first, then used a computer to look in their inventory system to see if they had any in the storage area in the back. If you had kept the DS, the inventory would show that there was still one in the system, which would prompt a long search for anywhere the item might be. It doesn't sound bad yet, but, especially on Black Friday, customers tend to be really impatient and short tempered, and grow even more so when they don't get what they want and have to wait while the associates embark on a fruitless search for a system that was not there. I've seen floor associates and cashiers (myself included) torn apart by a customer who didn't get what they wanted because we didn't have it.

In short, not only was returning the DS the right thing to do, you saved some poor store clerk from getting chewed out by a customer for something that was not their fault.

I have done both. I think you did right in taking if back since it did bother you. The things that I didn't take back were small ticket items, but I still am not proud of myself for keeping them.

One time I bought two suitcases, but the total didn't look correct. I asked the cashier if she rang up both of them.. She said, yes,yes, yes, so I left. When I got home I noticed that she only rang up one.I kept it. The store was going out of business, so maybe it was a 2 fer. But I have returned other items.

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The law only deals with what you HAVE to do because of the punishment when you don't. On that basis, you did nothing wrong, and lots of people can live with that.

Ethics deals with what YOU have to do because you have to live with your decision. People can tell you what THEIR ethics are, and you can decide whether to adopt their attitudes, but nobody can tell you what your ethics MUST be.

For many people, ethics only matter depending on how it benefits themselves. In other words, it should apply if it's for their benefit, but unimportant if it only benefits someone else. (Does the term Hypocrisy come to mind?) The Golden Rule might seem trite, but really it's the only decision I can make for myself. If I don't want someone doing it to me, then I can't do it to someone else.

For what it's worth, I agree with your decision, even though legally it was not required of you.

If you did not pay for it and you know you did not pay for it, it is stealing. It does not matter "when" you decided to steal it, you stole it. The only honest answer is to take it back and either pay the price they want for it or simply point out they did not charge you for it and return it.

Then go to the other store and pay for that one.

If a big shop with turnover in the millions I say keep it. Because they use all manner of scams to grab our money some even dishonest.

However, DEMOS JOE wins the moral argument and i think, hand on heart, he is right. But i have a very anti big corporation attitude that is why i would keep it, which in a way is what DEMOS is saying.

Honestly, if it was a mom and pop type store I would have brought it back. If it was a big chain store like K-mart. Target, and (especially) Walmart, I would have kept it.