Okay, here's the scenario that happened to me twice this past saturday and I didn't even realize it until Sunday when I looked at the receipts!
Saturday afternoon I take the kids out for some Mother's Day shopping and to get their growing feet some new boots for hiking season. Things were a bit busy in the stores, and relatively speaking the kids were about as good and cooperative as an almost 2 1/2 year old and a 4 1/2 year old can be while out shopping with them close to nap time
I was buying multiple things at each store that we went to and will readily admit that I was paying more attention to keeping my kids in sight than the credit card receipts I was signing.
Sunday AM, I'm going over the receipts, and it turns out that at both REI where I bought 2 pairs of kids hiking boots and 3 pairs of kids hiking socks that they didn't charge me for 2 pairs of the hiking socks (and I know that the guy at the register saw them and placed them into the bag) and then at Golfer's warehouse where I bought a golf shirt and some golf balls for my mother, the girls at the register didn't charge me for the shirt, even though once again she placed it in the bag!
I feel guilty even though it was their error at both stores, and frankly had my kids not been there I would have been paying attention to the credit card receipts and pointed their errors out to them.
What would you do??