Have You Ever Forgotten a Bag at the Grocery Store?

[MIGrandma]

I cleaned for my Mom this afternoon, so stopped at the grocery store in town to pick up a few things. Drove home, brought the bags in and started putting things away. When I was done I realized I was missing the 2 boxes of Raisin Bran I'd bought. Upon further investigation I was also missing two packages of persian pickles and two Lunchables. So I drove the 12 miles back to the store to retrieve my bag. Have you ever done that?

Also, upon further investigation of my receipt, he charged me twice for a $2.99 deli sandwich. And the persian pickles were 2 for $4 and they rang up at $3.49 each. So, I brought that to their attention and got $5.97 back.

Pays to pay attention at the store, and to your receipt.

 

[Dax]

I cleaned for my Mom this afternoon, so stopped at the grocery store in town to pick up a few things. Drove home, brought the bags in and started putting things away. When I was done I realized I was missing the 2 boxes of Raisin Bran I'd bought. Upon further investigation I was also missing two packages of persian pickles and two Lunchables. So I drove the 12 miles back to the store to retrieve my bag. Have you ever done that?

Also, upon further investigation of my receipt, he charged me twice for a $2.99 deli sandwich. And the persian pickles were 2 for $4 and they rang up at $3.49 each. So, I brought that to their attention and got $5.97 back.

Pays to pay attention at the store, and to your receipt.

More times than I care to admit...Whats even worse, I have done it at self checkout, and have no one by myself to blame on that one...I am usually pretty diligent on checking the spinny bag thing to at Walmart...but sometimes in a rush...LOL

 

[golfgal]

Yes, and thankfully it is only a few blocks to the store

We came home with an extra bag once. It had all kinds of goofy stuff we would never buy so it must have been left by someone before us.

 

[kimblebee]

Walmart has self checkout? I hope we get that up here some day. I hate standing in the line for the express lane. I always feel like a cow being herded in for something.

 

[C.Ann]

Yup!

I prefer to pack my own groceries too and set them in the cart the way I want them, but so often there are mistakes on what I've been charged I now spend my time watching everything ring up on the register to make sure I received the correct sale price, I'm not overcharged, etc..

 

[Mary•Poppins]

I was a cashier for 3 years and this happens quite a lot! What surprised me the most is a lot of people wouldn't come back for their groceries. We would store them, but they never came back to pick them up.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

I have forgotten a bag in my car long enough that it'll go bad... well it's usually milk... but I've not forgotten a bag in the store. Yet.

 

[dakcp2001]

Funny you should post this! I got home this week with an EXTRA bag, it had all the ingredients for a fantastic stir fry (a stir fry sauce, noodles, chicken, veggies etc). It must have been from the person in front of or behind me in line. The bagger must have mixed them up when loading my cart. The items were not on my reciept. I called the supermarket & told them I was coming back, and they took a list of all the items & told me to keep it. They said if the person comes in or calls they will replace all the items.

 

[DVCDan36]

I also have done this more than I care to count. It usually happens a Walmart where they have that carousel bagging, where you don't always see the bags because they are rushing you. Walmart has been good about replacing items that were left behind, but it is a pain to travel back to the store.

 

[PattnFmly]

No, but I do double check the bagging area to make sure the bagger has put all mine in my cart! I also watch the prices ring up as they go so I usually catch any double rings or off-prices at the time. Definitely pays off!

 

[dislaney]

No but I have forgotten things on the bottom of my cart!! More times then I care to admit!!

 

[Princess Nancy]

My DS 17 is a bagger at a local upscale grocery.

Recently a man forgot a card he had purchased. DS chased him into the parking lot. The man gave him $5 and was thrilled -- it was his Anniversary Card!!

 

[cirquelovers]

I left a bag of potatoes in the bottom of my cart. I was shocked when I went back to the store and asked, that someone had turned them in. They said it happens quite often.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I haven't, but when I was a cashier, it happened all the time.

 

[dismom2]

Yes, at Target. They do not ever hand me my bags, so I have to pay close attention and remember to make sure I get everything. They just bag my things, then move on to the next person. I always wonder why they don't make sure I have taken all my bags. One time I left a lot of good things there. It was a huge hassle to prove it, too (video surveilence proved the person behind me took it home). Never got my things back. I'm more careful now.

 

[disfan07]

Not AT the grocery store but in the car yes. And of course its always when it's 100 degrees outside and its always like fruit, cheese adn meat that gets left in the car...lol

The worst is coming home, not being able to find something that you could swear that you bought so you search the entire kitchen adn the car but once you look at your receipt, you realize you never actually bought it. I do that A LOT.

 

[SandrA9810]

My grandmother once went to the grocery store. Came home, put everything away, and then realized she was missing a package of ground beef. She knew she bought, she knew it wasn't in the freezer or any of the bags on the counter. Drove back to the grocery store, told them she didn't make it home with the ground beef, and they gave her a refund because the package wasn't turned in by one of the bag boys.

A couple days later when she was taking me to school... yeah, the ground beef managed to turn up. She left it in the trunk and didn't think to look there for it.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I don't think I have left one at the store--but yes in the car a few times. When we lived in NH and it was a long drive home I seemed to get distracted with the kids driving and forget there were groceries in the trunk by the time we got there. It probably happened 5-6 times in the 4 years we lived there and I felt like such a dolt every time it did.

My grandmother once went to the grocery store. Came home, put everything away, and then realized she was missing a package of ground beef. She knew she bought, she knew it wasn't in the freezer or any of the bags on the counter. Drove back to the grocery store, told them she didn't make it home with the ground beef, and they gave her a refund because the package wasn't turned in by one of the bag boys.

A couple days later when she was taking me to school... yeah, the ground beef managed to turn up. She left it in the trunk and didn't think to look there for it.

I suppose it is too much to hope that she went back to the store, apologized and returned their money You wouldn't see that too often these days--hopefully your grandmother would be honest though

 

[tvguy]

Walmart has self checkout? I hope we get that up here some day. I hate standing in the line for the express lane. I always feel like a cow being herded in for something.

Bite your tongue! Most of the stores here have self checkout, including Walmart. I am amazed at folks that stand in line to do the work themselves, when the line is shorter for the checkstand with a clerk! For what they are making off me, they better have someone there to check me out.
2 Walmarts here also are part of a test, no bags. You either bring your own, or buy one of their reusable ones. I purchased a 250 pack of good old fashioned tall paper bags at Smart and Final for 2 cents each to take with me to Walmart, only had 3 rip since this experiment with no bags started in January. And they don't tip over and spill their contents in the trunk like plastic and reusable fabric bags. Is funny going in, looking at how many folks don't bring bags and refuse to buy bags, going out with their groceries unbagged in the basket.
I wonder if the health department is going to kill this, some people bring in some pretty gross looking reuable bags..(stained with meat juice and lord knows what). Yuck.

 

[MoniqueU]

I have done it a few times at our super walmart. It has a spinner thing that doesnt always get turned around and I can miss a bag. It's a long drive back there so I don't go back to get it.