Check your cash back when using the HD automated check-out facility and paying the bill with hard cash!
So far I have "collected" $5 and $2 at two different HD stores in FL where previous customers would have been confused or overwhelmed by the "talking computer" and "put items on the scale" and "take your items" etc!
I'm not "fingering" return slots at public telephones but I may get that habit while doing my (weekly) shopping run at a HD.....could pay for the gas...!!
I despise the idea of a self checkout. I refuse to use them in any store. Like self serve gas, you don't save any money, but the seller reaps higher profits.
To clarify, full service gas is priced as much as 25¢ a gallon higher than self serve, but that is an artificial price. In MA, each town decides if self serve is allowed. Gas stations across the street from each other on the town line both sell at the same price but one if full service. When I can get a 5% discount for doing it myself, I'll start to use them. Ed
So what next? steal the tools, what you are doing is just as dis-honest, So someone made a mistake, Wouldn't have been better to check with with the store mgr. or the person watching the express checkout and see if they could track the person, They paid cash so they probably couldn't But I would be able to sleep better knowing I did.
I don't care for the self serve checkout at the Borg, but difinitely prefer self serve gas stations. At a self serve gas station the service is faster, better and more honest.
I think the point, and the reason I use them frequently, is speed of checkout and convienience. I've been using the one at my local grocery store for 3 years now, and was overjoyed to see them pop up at my local BORG.
I'm tired of waiting in line for 45 minutes for things beyond my control. My TIME is too valuable, probably worth more than the 5% discount. You wait in line, I'll make sawdust faster.
Agreed.....this is particularly true if you only have a few items. Getting stuck behind someone's entire weekend project can be frustrating. Also, the self-checkout machines don't tend to get caught up in casual conversations while a half dozen people wait in line ;)
So -you're- the asshole that took my change. I came back 10 minutes later when I remembered it, and it was gone.
Theiving bastard even thinks it funny so he posts his theft so the world can see.
It's not the same as stealing. Geez, it's a couple bucks that someone forgot about. How much time of his and the store manager's should be wasted on the impossible task of locating someone who paid in cash? Give me a break.
Frank
A truly honest person would turn the cash in to the service desk, in case the person who left it returns. A time stamped sales slip with the exact amount of the change would be pretty convincing evidence of ownership ... but maybe some of us are just too honest.
Hmmm, I don't like self-checkouts either and won't use them at HD, but I disagree with you about self-serve gasoline. Even if it is the same price, I prefer it because I don't have someone who doesn't give a damn scratching the finish on the car. Since I am in the rust-belt, that saves me some money on a car rusting prematurely.
I guess we were bought up differently, Frank. My folks taught me that if it is _not_ mine, I should _not_ take it. It _does_ belong to someone else. Therefore, to take it _IS_ stealing. In my book, hbakker should have given the cash to the attendant of the automated lanes and let HD deal with it.
I was also taught to trust someone until that person proves he can not be trusted. $7.00 and a blabbermouth has shown me and the rest of the group that hbakker can not be trusted.
Like George K., at least I can sleep well at night knowing I did the right thing. The trouble is, hbakker & Frank probably have no trouble sleeping either.
DexAZ
dis-honest,
finders...keepers...loosers...well, you know ;)
I do my own car maintenance, so pumping the gas once a week gives me a chance to check the oils and fluids, look at the tires, clean the window glass, make sure nothing is falling off.
Jim H
On 16 Oct 2003, DexAZ spake unto rec.woodworking:
How? Put the cash in the lost and found box? Get real. It would have ended up back in the till, at best. More likely, in the HD attendant's pocket.
Me too - and without being a sanctimonious prat. How the hell could anybody track down the bozo who left the small change behind? You make it sound like he stole somebody's credit card.
splinter... beam...
Not to argue the point, but just a few of my tuppence's:
Not a damn thing sanctimonious about refusing to take something that doesn't belong to you ... making a public noise about it, perhaps.
$2 to $5 is NOT small change to me, and I am far from being poor.
And how do you know the guy who forgot the change is a "Bozo"?
Seems reasonable to conclude that convincing yourself of that is the first step in rationalizing the act. ;>)
I disagree. They will just pocket the cash as well. If they are too cheap to hire people to run cash registers, they deserve what they get.
Then get a AAA Platinum Plus Visa. You get 5% of each pay at the pump gas transaction rebated to the account with 48 hours. It only works for pay at the pump transactions, but it works at all brands. :-)
I would sleep better knowing that I came out a little ahead for a change.
Woodworking guys. The name of the group is rec.woodworking.
Geesh. I agree with you, but take it somewhere else.
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