"Don Foreman" wrote in message
se.com...
I think it's less of a moral dilemma than a question of what response (and
by whom) is appropriate.

My approach would have been to quietly tell the cashier what had
happened. How she and the store respond to that re the offender is then
their call -- not mine.





"Harold and Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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Today I was in Home Depot, standing in line to pay for a couple rolls of
hardware cloth. In front of me was a gentleman, and I use that term
loosely, that had placed on the counter six one inch electrical PVC ells,
along with six couplings, each of which was attached to the ells. The
ells had their UPC stamped on them, but the connectors had a stick-on
label.
To a woman clerk, that may or may not be wise to how such things look and
are used, it was very easy for the items to be scanned by the label only,
considering the UPC on the ells blended well with the other data printed
thereon.

That's what happened. The buyer paid with a credit card, the total
coming
to under $3. It was obvious to me that he had placed the connectors on
the
ells intentionally, likely thinking they would get scanned just as they
did.
I did more than nothing, but I'm interested in hearing what others might
think would have been a good course of action to take. When I've heard
various opinions, I'll describe what I did, and why I did it.

Comments?

Harold

Harold, I'm sure if you would have changed your story scenario slightly and
instead of Home Depot, made it a corner hardware-family business where the
owners actually know about their products and really try to help customers,
and make a modest living, the responses would have been different. We all
have about as much sympathy for the giant chain stores as we would have if
we came home and caught our wife in bed with a guy with a 12" member, and he
hurt himself jumping out the bedroom window.

Dixon