Always be suspicious when your cashier looks like this:
The same thing happened to me about a year ago at a WalMart in Tyler, Tx. After the checker handed me my receipt, I looked at her and asked what the $40.00 charge at the bottom of the receipt was for. She had started checking the next customer in line. She did not look at me or at the receipt. She simply said "you will have to take it to customer service". I asked the girl in customer service what the $40.00 charge was since I had not bought anything for that amount. She looked at the receipt and looked over at the register where the checker was continuing to check out the lady behind me. The customer service lady told me should would have to call the manager. After about two minutes, the manager showed up and I asked her the same question about the charge on the receipt. She also looked over at the checker for a long time. She then went to the register, withdrew $40.00 and handed it to me and apologized for the mistake. I always wondered how a charge could be made against my account without my approval and finally caught on when I read the cash back thread.
Pay attention to your receipts when you check out at WalMart.
Ted
Hi Ted, you sound confused. Send me the $40.
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twice i have accidently hit the $20 cash back button at Wal-Mart because it is so close the the yes/approve button... but both times the cashier gave me the money... i always have some clue as to how much the bill is going to be, so if it were $40 off, i would know something was up... btw—my bill is usually less than i anticipate—which is nice...
This story is crazy...How did they know you just didn’t pocket the $40 and claim it again?
Something fishy here since they need an audit trail for all transactions.
Check your receipts at all stores, since so many of the machines take debit cards and ask to give cash too.
I think this is an anti-WalMart story...??
You have to specifically hit a key on YOUR screen to get cash back. If you are stupid and hit it by mistake, you are likely to be handed $40.00 and be puzzled why they are handing you cash.
It shows up on the register that cash is due back.
If you are handed cash, count it. Don’t don’t assume that it will be right.
I have more problems not getting all of my bags of bought stuff home. At least once a year, I forget a bag and make it out of the store without stuff I have paid for.
This is bunk. The cashier has no way to hit cash back on the register keyboard. It is on the customer’s keypad on the debit reader. Alot of confused customers hit the wrong button and then want to blame the cashier. He or she has no control over that. My guess is that the e-mail is from a dissatisfied person who hit cash back instead of no cash back.
Snopes is a husband and wife team, Barbara and David Mikkelson, they are not experts on anything. They are urban legend chasers. That’s all. These are the same people that claimed to have documented the forged Hawaiian COLB as authentic! They have been proven wrong time and time again. They have a political agenda!
The issue with snopes is that they are Urban Legend hunters. When it came to the Obama birth certificate, they presented facts that were NOT true.
By them stating that Obama was born in Hawaii,they had no access to the “Vault” copy nor additional information. They lied, and they lied to the public big time.
When Congressmen and Senators tell their constituiants they verified Obama eligibility by checking snopes, we have a MAJOR problem.
Like I have stated before.
Imagine John Kerry, standing in the Senate and stating “We know Saddam had WMD’s, cause we checked with Snopes” or Hillary verifying the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, because she checked with Snopes.
As a former Wal-mart cashier, I am calling you a liar. Cashiers are not able to do what you describe, in the manner you are describing it.
I think it’s good advice to be aware of what’s on your receipt.
I have no doubt that unscrupulous cashiers try this from time to time.
WalMart is a great store, and almost all of the associates are good at customer service, but at my store, the checkers leave a lot to be desired. I actually stopped going there because I got overcharged (double entries, wrong — more expensive — item entered) every single time and had to “take it to customer service” each time. And yes, the checkers are still there. I got fed up and took my business elsewhere except for a few items. They went from $$$ from me each week to $ every three weeks or so.
I'd also guess if you didn't post such stupid threads you wouldn't be zotted. But you did.
