Have you ever broken anything in a grocery store?

I accidentally broke a ketchup bottle once. I fell shy and embarrass at first, but I just picked up the bottle. Go directly to the cashier and pay for the ketchup and threw it in the trash can. I never really intended to break something that is why I have to pay for it.

I remember once that I had the same experience. I was shopping for my personal effects and accidentally, one of the items I bought dropped and it got broken. I was told the same thing. I had to pay for it. Of course I did, good thing it only costs a little over 20 pesos.

hello there! yes, i would do the same thing, i always believe that good deeds really pay. it happened to me once when i broke a bottle of peanut butter..i accidentally hit it with my bag when i turned to check on another item.. i paid for it the actual price but it's ok with me, it's just fair enough.

Wow.Good.Obviously you are honestly boy.If my memories i never broken anything in a store or shop.If that really happens i will do the same thing as you..Tell the assistant..Have a good day.

wow...i find it so odd that so many people say that they have had to pay for something that was broken on accident. I work in a grocery store, and people break things quite often (when you are there over 40 hours a week...not a day goes by that someone doesn't drop something...) but we never make our customers pay for it....unless we see them PURPOSEFULLY throwing something on the floor and breaking things. Accidents happen and we figure in a certain amount of loss due to breakage, either by ourselves when opening cases and accidently slicing a box open, or something accidently falling from a shelf or getting knocked over by a customer. We figure this in just as we figure in a certain amount of loss due to product goig out of date etc. Its why a single can of corn might only cost us at the store 20 cents to purchase, but because of damages and the cost of labor to get in on the shelf and run the store etc it wonds up costing hte customer 85 cents. I am glad the security guard cut you a brak though! And thanks to all the people out there who immediately find a worker at the store and reportsomething that is broken or spilled so we can clean it up. It really sucks when half an hour later someone comes to the register and says..oh yea...by the way, when i cam in thestore a while ago there was some juice spilled on the floor. First off, it makes the store look dirty, and we don't want that, and secondly, someone could have slipped and fallen...and we CERTAINLY don't want that!

My oldest son has broke a jar of applesauce once. Someone was near by to clean it up. I was not charged. They were more concerned if my son had cut himself. Luckily no wounds.

I have never been charged for anything I broke. Usually it's the fault of the shelf-stacker or the stupid design of the jar that makes it fall. I have, I think, broken something only a couple or so times. I always immediately go and find a member of staff so that it can be cleaned up. Once (when I was working as a shelf stacker) a whole shelf of glass jars of pickles came down and most of them broke. That time I had to clean it up myself, though!

Yes I broke a jar of spahgetti sauce once. It was quite a mess all that red sauce splattered all over. I told them right away, mostly because I was concerened about the shattered glass, I did not want any one to get hurt. They thanked me for telling them, and they went to clean it up, but they did not charge me for the broken product which was nice of them.

Good thing if I only broke 1, but it was a stack of bottled vinegar they're arranging in the shelves, man, it was very embarrassing, not only i stenched my clothes, they made me clean it up, but good thing they didn't let me pay for it, it was totally an accident.

hi debbie_19, you're so lucky for having that discount! as for me, i broke a bottle of cologne and the saleslady saw it. i was so embarassed and asked the saleslady what to do. she directed me to the cashier and i paid the full amount of the said product. oh my, good that i have an extra money because the cologne was quite expensive, i really felt bad about what happened but i don't have the choice then but to pay it.

hi debbie^^;; oh i had the most terrible experience when i broke the cover of an expensive set of pyrex glass cooking ware..(maybe around $35). At that time i didn't have money and the sales assistant insisted that i should pay the whole thing and i was like oh my God!..i told them i didn't have enough money and if i could pay only for the cover but she said no..so i was trying to call my friend. They called the owner of the shop, and the owner asked me where i live and how much cash do i have. After that, the owner let me go without me paying it. Ofcourse, I was so thankful she spared me..whew!relief! I just realized sooner that her husband was running for a mayor in our hometown and that it's like one kind of their campaign.^^;; After that incident, i'm very careful when i'm near a glass of something on display...LoL

Ive never broken anything in a grocery store but I would've done the same. :-) Kudos to you for being honest about it.

I can't recall breaking something in a grocery store but something tells me I have had this experience before. Maybe it was so embarrassing then that I had to forget about it.

I made a whole shelf collapse at a grocery store and had to pay for it. i thought i could get away with it, but with the mannager right next to me, it was impossible to get away.

I didn't really break it at least I don't think so. I was looking at a bottle of shampoo in the store and I put the bottle back onto the store shelves. Well. I picked up a different bottle of shampoo and walked away and as I'm at the end of the isle I hear a loud crash and see the bottle on the floor, the lid knocked off and leaking all over the place. I just kept on walking because I didn't feel like I really broke it and I figured that someone would figure it out eventually and clean it up. And they did. Someone came a few minutes after it happened.

Mine was not in a grocery store. One time, in an appliance center, I had broken a chime embelhished with crystals. I was only 14 years old then shopping for a gift for our christmas party. I wasn't able to buy a gift that time because I had to pay for the broken chime. Then just months ago in a bookstore I had broken a bookcase made of plastic. I was in a hurry at that time so I was not aware I had broken something. The lady guard ran after me on my way out of the bookstore. It was so embarrassing. LOL =)

hi debbie__19 yes I accidentally broke a jar of peanut butter as it'slipped through my fingers but it happened in front of a'clerk who looked at the bottle and told me he would not charge me as someone had opened it and not closed it properly and there was oil all aroung the edges,thats why it slipped out of my hand.so I did luck out there, I did have to get some kleenex and wipe my hands off. but that was'okay.

no i have not broken any thing yet. and i am very careful actually on the items i pick up on grocery shelter as i don't want any thing slip from my grip specially anything with bottle container . as i don't want to attract attention and i don't want to pay for it and i feel ashamed to do that actually.

yes i have acted silly many times .lol I remember while hunting for gifts in one mall i have broke cup and saucers.I was trying to take out something but it shook that shelf and few cup and saucers fall down on floor.That owner was mad at me.I said him sorry for my mistake and then paid for it.

I broke a bottle of mayonaise one time in grocery. Many people witnessed it so I had no choice but to pay for it.