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ALWAYS Check EVERY bill ! - It pays !
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You need reminding to check your receipt??
So you check one day then the next day the whole "check the recipt" mecahnism falls out of your head???
Remember to take some cash or alternative means of payment when you go shopping.... Top Tip.
Another "Mr Perfect".......well alomst. (must learn to spell correctly....lol)Never trust a financial institution.
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The worst thing about all this is that it just shows how much trust we give to machines - when it's the input operative that usually causes the problem.
Once upon a time (MANY years ago!!:embarasse) I remember everything being added up by the shopkeeper with a pencil...and we trusted him.
Then adding machines took over...so anyone could now enter the figures....and now computers rule.
But still they're operated by low paid workers who wouldn't recognise £99.99 from £9.99 on our bill.
I had that the other day in the local co-op. I was told the total was £24 and something, when I knew damn well it should have been perhaps £11 or so. The reason - I'd been charged for 2 x 12 tins of cat food instead of just 2 tins of cat food!
But the guy at the till hadn't spotted it....he was quite convinced that the total was right....because the machine said so!
That's part of our problem - we trust machines. Silly people!!!
Why do we trust a spotty youth to provide the input correctly?
We should learn to recognise approximately how much our bill should come to - rather than simply to rely on trust.
We're lucky that the old "caveat emptor" ruling isn't applied more firmly.For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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souwesterly wrote: »
I had that the other day in the local co-op. I was told the total was £24 and something, when I knew damn well it should have been perhaps £11 or so. The reason - I'd been charged for 2 x 12 tins of cat food instead of just 2 tins of cat food!
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Sounds as though either yourself or someone before you had taken the two cans of cat food out of a larger pack and therefore the cans had the barcode for the big pack on.If you find you are drinking too much give this number a call. 0845 769 75550 -
souwesterly wrote: »Why do we trust a spotty youth to provide the input correctly?
But it's the "spotty youth (that doesn't sound nice do you have a spotty brain?)" as you put it on the minimum wage that makes your Supermarket shopping so cheap! Tesco currently operates at a net profit margin of 3.99% view proof here (the spotty brains wouldn't have thought of that!!!).0 -
Defo good advice. Asda's my main culprit. At least every other time we go there's something I've been overcharged for. I blame the machines or to be more exact those inputting the prices, not the cashiers.0
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