Being short-changed in shops ...

Middy

The only times I pay by cash are those places that don't accept cards or have a min spend of £20 (my former hairdressers had that) or when eating out with friends.

OrkneyStar

torchie wrote: »

Card payments only for me. Cannot understand why people use cash except for sub-£5 purchases as some shops do of course have a "lower limit" for sales value.

I am the opposite. I like cash, it feels more like spending real money and so I stick to a budget better. Works for me. I use credit card for larger purchases as feel that is, on the whole, safer, though I pay if off straight away.

prowla

Last time I was short-changed was in a coffee shop near work; I never went back in again.

Riversong

I have never been short changed. I have however had a LOT of whoopsie or reduced items go through at the wrong price. i sometimes wonder if the stickers are positioned wrongly on purpose.

Badger_Lady

Riversong wrote: »

I have never been short changed. I have however had a LOT of whoopsie or reduced items go through at the wrong price. i sometimes wonder if the stickers are positioned wrongly on purpose.

Yes! For a long time this was true in Sainsbury's - I got quite narked about it when the staff told me "you have to cover the original barcode with your hand while you scan it". I'm convinced that was a sneaky tactic.

I've noticed in the last couple of weeks that the 'reduced' stickers in my three usual branches have all been moved back over the original barcodes.