Real-life MMD: Is it wrong to be a supermarket voucher vulture?

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Money Moral Dilemma: Is it wrong to be a supermarket voucher vulture?
Lots of people don't realise they might get a price-match money-off voucher (printed at the end of the transaction) and leave before collecting them. Is it wrong to use someone else's voucher, especially if they're still walking away, or is it fair game to assume they don't want them?
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Lots of people don't realise they might get a price-match money-off voucher (printed at the end of the transaction) and leave before collecting them. Is it wrong to use someone else's voucher, especially if they're still walking away, or is it fair game to assume they don't want them?
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I hope other people might do the same for me.
I agree, if I get a coupon I won't be able to use or one for a product I don't use, I pass it on or leave it on the shelf by the product. If the person ahead of me says no to the offer of school vouchers, I will sometimes ask for them - depends on what the person looks like, I'll only ask if they look like they might be amenable - and I've never had the staff say I can't have them. At the trolley pick up point, I have a quick look for trollies with coupons left in them and select one if it's near the front of the stack.
As long as the vouchers / coupons have been discarded and not just absentmindedly forgotten and the person about to return for them, in which case I'd point them out like you do when you see someone drop a glove, I think they're up for grabs and OK to use. After all, you do have to buy something in order to use them, and you're already in the store preparing to shop, not just lurking on the off-chance of a freebie, so I think there's no moral dilemma here.
I have had the opposite happen - at a self check out till I went to someone had left a voucher (less than a £1 off I think) - the person supervising these tills suggested I use it, as he would only put it in the bin otherwise!