How often do you get cheated?

I was cashiering one time and I accidentally charged a woman for an extra can of something and she held up the entire line to check and she didn't want to go to the customer service desk to get her money back and I almost cried. Then eventually I got fired, in case that makes anybody feel better. Now I'm too scared to get another job I'll only fail at and my family's getting angrier at me.

Yeah its true it has happen with me so many times.We picked up the stuff from sales aisle but when we go for paying it It charges us full price of that thing.Its sometimes mess up my budget too and i leave the store without getting anything from there.We should be alert while they are ringing us up because so many times it happens we pay more for the things that are on sale.Your girlfriend is smart person I always do check receipt too and we all should for these kind of mistakes.

All the time! I always watch- It drives me crazy when they ring up wrong- I know it isn't the cashiers fault but it is when they get all snippy and don't believe that it is wrong! I just used a self checkout at our grocery store and some flowers I bought rang up at $13.95- They were on sale for $5.95-- I told the lady she said really snotty- Well you probably got the wrong ones- I had to walk over and show her the price- then she was nice-- So stores cheat you all the time- You have to be sure to watch!

I watch all the time, especially if soemthing is on sale. If i'm not buying anything on sale, then it doesn't really matter and I just apy whatever the price is. One time though I got chargeed for deli ham at 75 dollars a pound and didn't catch until a week later when I had already eaten it. That was insane!

I have seen this happen a number of times when I go shopping. Anymore I check to make sure everything rang up correctly. Wal-Mart use to give you the item for free if it cost less then $3. If the item cost more then you would get an extra $3 off the total price. Wal-Mart had to quit that policy because they were losing alot of money.

I never get cheated! Come no, this is non sense! Customers rising their prices just when I am buying the product, just to cheat me? Haha, I won't let that happen. Fortunately, there is a law that says that, if there's a difference between the price in the sign and the price in the computer, the lowest price must be charged. Which means: if something is shown at 2 dollars, and the customer want to charge 5, I'll only pay two.

Yes. YOu have to be careful. Always check you receipts. There can be a human error on inputting on the database. Other things to be watched out is that the cashier scans your items twice. I encountered that but I noticed it. I ask the cashier to show me the receipts even I'm not yet finish...and there we saw one item (that costs a lot) was scanned twice. All these things you have to check while shopping and on the grocery. Especially when there's a sale, sometimes their code, system is not yet updated. Check all the receipts and chnage before leaving the cashier.

i watch the prices constantly and i pay for it then i got to the front desk and point it out to them i get my money back because of the scanning policy and often get things for free but if the mistake is in my favour i forget to tell them

I haven't had this happen, actually - I usually grocery shop at the end of the day, so if any item is improperly scanning, I guess someone else has already told the manager and it has been fixed. At our grocery store, if an item isn't coming up the right amount, you can go to the customer service desk - they'll fix it.

In these days of computerized everything, I definitely check the prices of items as they come up on the cashier's display. It used to be that prices has to be physically marked down on the package itself (As a college student, I used to work in a pharmacy and I can remember seeing red sales stickers in my sleep!!). Now, they just program the computer to discount the price via the product's bar code/UPC. So many times, I'll pick up something on sale and it will pass through the register at its original price. I always stop the cashier and explain and have her look into it. I agree with what a few others have said -- some cashiers get visibly annoyed when you stop them from processing your order... but, fact of the matter is, there are times I will buy something specifically because it's on sale and I wouldn't have bought it at its full price. I think it is worth checking your receipt or watching as the items are scanned, if possible, because it saves the headache of having to wait in line at a courtesy counter later to get your money back.

I always bring a calculator and add up the stuff as I buy it. If it is off by more then a few cents..I know. and I complain. I wish we could scan the stuff as we throw it in the cart with theprice we knowit to be..would probably save us a ot.

I'm sure this happens a heck of alot, I too have found times when things haven't gone through the till properly, I do spend time looking at the register to see what is going through and especially on the special offers. The stores must get away with thousands per day in my reckoning.

This is the reason why we should always check the receipts. There are 'ripper offers' out there. One time, when I lived in Dallas, TX I went into a grocery store to purchase three items, 1 loaf of french bread, gum, and eggs. The total-should have been something like $2.00...cashier charged me something like $7.00. This was in the days before scanners. I said, "What in the world would cause the price to jump like that?" She said, "The bread." I said, incredulously, "How much is the bread?" She said, "$6.95." I said, "Honey, that is 69 cents." If I hadn't been aware...that bread would have cost me much. I'd still have that bread-for the high price-just to get the cost down...

well...i usually don't buy a lot of items together , so i never really checked the price. hehe...now that i read this post, reminded myself on this. will check on this more often from now on. :p

I typically keep a pretty close eye on what's going on during checkout-- often the computers haven't been correctly updated to reflect "manager's specials" and things like that, and I really don't have enough money to not what where the pennies are going. Also, I got in the habit when the main grocery chain instituted a policy that "if it rings up wrong, the item is free." They made very few mistakes, but I did catch a few, over the years.

i always got cheated...when i bought a car 3 years ago...it gets into trouble most of the time and when i have it repaired...the folowing day...it is in trouble again ...that always happens until the expenses incurred in the repairs alone is almost twice the selling price of the car...then i had it overhauled but 3 months without trouble, the police came in and impounded the the car...i could not get them to release up until two years later the police has not come up with any findings that would prove that the car's papers has problem...those the big ccheats i have experienced and not to mention that the car's side mirro was stolen in broad daylight and the car was vadlized several times...

If I'm only buying one or two items, I always know more or less how much I'm going to be charged for it. But sometimes, if I have bought a lot of items, it's hard to keep track of how much they charge for me, but I always make sure that they ring up the sale item correctly.

I do watch this as well, I like to get things for the price they are marked down to, not previous prices. I try to go to the self checkout most of the time, i check the reciept self checkout or not. I make sure that i'm paying what the tag says, not what it was marked down from. Its always good to check, because sometimes the cashier can make mistakes.

It is quite unfortunate that this kind of things still happen in recent times. However, i rearly check how much i am being charged because i always feel that there are policies and control measures that are related to such situations. In some few occassions, i find out that i was overcharged and i quickly let the cashierknow about it and the mistake is corrected immediatelly. You can imagine that your girlfriend or even you might have been buying items from stores without knowing that they make mistakes in placing prices on some items or even porposely altered the prices to cheat. I every good society there are some bad eggs. CHEERS

well I must say that before I saw ur discussion I had never even bothered to ever think of being cheated in a grocery shop..I must thank ou for head up..thanx loads..