Check Those Receipts

Tippytoes

So I've noticed that shops don't automatically give receipts anymore.  When I'm asked if I would like a receipt, I always say yes.  Here's a good reason why:
Monday I went into Lidl and bought a dozen or so items.  Paid by card.  Got home and checked receipt only to find I'd been overcharged by nearly £17.00.  A technical error, apparently.  Overcharge refunded when I went back to the shop.  Three days later, I popped into Tesco for a few items.  Paid by card.  Checked my receipt before leaving the store and discovered that an item I had purchased two of, had been scanned three times resulting in an overcharge of £5.00.  Refunded at customer services.  £23.00 total overcharge!!  Please be careful everyone.  Ask for, and check, those receipts.

Pollycat

Our Tesco Extra gives receipts without asking on the main tills, not sure about self-service as I've not used them for almost a year.

Tesco Metro ask if you want a receipt.

Aldi always give a receipt.

I always check before I leave the store to see if I've been charged correctly.

I've been doing it for years.

It was a nice little earner for me when our Tesco Extra first opened and they were slap-dash about changing shelf edge labels & pricing (double the difference).

JJ_Egan

So all my shopping has had a receipt handed to me by cashier .

Takmon

Tippytoes said:

So I've noticed that shops don't automatically give receipts anymore.  When I'm asked if I would like a receipt, I always say yes.  Here's a good reason why:
Monday I went into Lidl and bought a dozen or so items.  Paid by card.  Got home and checked receipt only to find I'd been overcharged by nearly £17.00.  A technical error, apparently.  Overcharge refunded when I went back to the shop.  Three days later, I popped into Tesco for a few items.  Paid by card.  Checked my receipt before leaving the store and discovered that an item I had purchased two of, had been scanned three times resulting in an overcharge of £5.00.  Refunded at customer services.  £23.00 total overcharge!!  Please be careful everyone.  Ask for, and check, those receipts.

Buying a dozen items and then being £17 should have been obvious before paying i would have thought. Doing quick a calculation as you walk around in your head with reasonable rounding will get you a figure within a few pounds quite easily so being £17 more should be something you would question immediately surely?.

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Takmon said:

Tippytoes said:

So I've noticed that shops don't automatically give receipts anymore.  When I'm asked if I would like a receipt, I always say yes.  Here's a good reason why:
Monday I went into Lidl and bought a dozen or so items.  Paid by card.  Got home and checked receipt only to find I'd been overcharged by nearly £17.00.  A technical error, apparently.  Overcharge refunded when I went back to the shop.  Three days later, I popped into Tesco for a few items.  Paid by card.  Checked my receipt before leaving the store and discovered that an item I had purchased two of, had been scanned three times resulting in an overcharge of £5.00.  Refunded at customer services.  £23.00 total overcharge!!  Please be careful everyone.  Ask for, and check, those receipts.

Buying a dozen items and then being £17 should have been obvious before paying i would have thought. Doing quick a calculation as you walk around in your head with reasonable rounding will get you a figure within a few pounds quite easily so being £17 more should be something you would question immediately surely?.

You are overestimating the number of people who can do simple maths in their head. 

Tippytoes

Thanks for all your comments.  I passed all my maths exams back in the day when they counted for something.  I went shopping with my other half, who paid as I packed.  Other half actually commented that the Lidl total was cheap!  I paid in Tesco and identified the overcharge before leaving the store.  Once bitten, twice shy.  Guess the maths geniuses on here have never been caught out but I hope I have helped someone.

cbsexec

The last three times I have been to Morrison’s I have been overcharged.  Only by £1 or 50p but if that happens to everyone it soon adds up.   It has been on items reduced/special offer but not taken off at the till.     

Takmon

Tippytoes said:

Thanks for all your comments.  I passed all my maths exams back in the day when they counted for something.  I went shopping with my other half, who paid as I packed.  Other half actually commented that the Lidl total was cheap!  I paid in Tesco and identified the overcharge before leaving the store.  Once bitten, twice shy.  Guess the maths geniuses on here have never been caught out but I hope I have helped someone.

All I'm suggesting is simple rounding and addition. Even if you had rounded everything up the nearest pound and added it together in your head as you went along you would have easily spotted a £17 overcharge because it would have been more than your expected amount when it should be less due to the rounding up of every item.

It's much easier to spot the mistake before you pay rather than checking receipts after and then having to go back.

JMW77

I find co op the worst I often buy the offers and get charged full price ,its happened so many times.

In Boots only last week bought perfume that was supposed to be half price and was charged full amount.

oxroxx

Shopping for presents at Next and Smiggle, I was asked if I wanted the receipt emailed to me or have a physical copy there and then. I guess it's a way to cut down on paper use.

Lip_Stick

Takmon said:

Tippytoes said:

Thanks for all your comments.  I passed all my maths exams back in the day when they counted for something.  I went shopping with my other half, who paid as I packed.  Other half actually commented that the Lidl total was cheap!  I paid in Tesco and identified the overcharge before leaving the store.  Once bitten, twice shy.  Guess the maths geniuses on here have never been caught out but I hope I have helped someone.

All I'm suggesting is simple rounding and addition. Even if you had rounded everything up the nearest pound and added it together in your head as you went along you would have easily spotted a £17 overcharge because it would have been more than your expected amount when it should be less due to the rounding up of every item.

It's much easier to spot the mistake before you pay rather than checking receipts after and then having to go back.

Yes, because everyone can be arsed to do that, or don't get distracted, on every shop they do.