So if you get to the cashier, and you don’t have enough money to pay, the store needs to ‘sell’ it to you anyways because the alternative is to damage your self-esteem?
Dan! I need to go buy a Mercedes with the $5 in my pocket!
Well if it makes you feel better being a dick to kids because it get some “conservative” point across, then by all means snatch it from the leaches after it was given to them and toss it in the garbage.
Either way money was wasted, but the kids got the business end of the “correction”, even though they had nothing to do with the whole screw-up from either end.