> What should I do?
>
> Rite Aid (Eckerd) got my dog's prescription wrong and put 30 $5 pills
> in the order, so I asked if I could just get 10 and it was no problem.
> Get home and see that the lady never took out twenty of the tablets--
> so I've got $100 worth of meds that I didn't pay for.
>
> I usually am not a fan of taking advantage of a mistake, as somebody
> usually has to answer for it. If the checker at Hills gives me too
> much money back, I'll go back to the store if I discover it or if a
> local restaurant forgets to charge for something, I'll let them know--
> and often they're so surprised that they end up comping it anyway.
>
> But, in this case, I'm pretty sure that they can't restock the pills
> after they've been out of the store, for safety reasons. So the only
> thing I'd be doing is being honest for honesty's sake, and the pills
> would be discarded? Or can pharmacists get credit for "spoiled" stock?
>
> Eckerd has driven me nuts with the incompetence of the Eastland store-- ...

> What should I do?
>
> Rite Aid (Eckerd) got my dog's prescription wrong and put 30 $5 pills
> in the order, so I asked if I could just get 10 and it was no problem.
> Get home and see that the lady...

>
> Remember, it's Eckerd. The store that removed "The Child's Garden of
> Grass" from their book sales area in the 60s.
>
> Never forget, never forgive.

> On 2007-08-02 15:13:41 -0500, maxo gmail.com> said:
>

>> What should I do?
>>
>> Rite Aid (Eckerd) got my dog's prescription wrong and put 30 $5 pills
>> in the order, so I asked if I could just get 10 and it was no problem.
>> Get home and see that the lady never took out twenty of the tablets--
>> so I've got $100 worth of meds that I didn't pay for.
>>
>> I usually am not a fan of taking advantage of a mistake, as somebody
>> usually has to answer for it. If the checker at Hills gives me too
>> much money back, I'll go back to the store if I discover it or if a
>> local restaurant forgets to charge for something, I'll let them know--
>> and often they're so surprised that they end up comping it anyway.
>>
>> But, in this case, I'm pretty sure that they can't restock the pills
>> after they've been out of the store, for safety reasons. So the only ...

> I'd report the extra pills to Eckerd and ask what they want to do.
>
> I once purchased two $200 identical items at the Bellevue Sam's. I
> obviously wasn't paying close attention when I swiped my debit to pay,
> because I found out a day or two later that they had only charged me
> for one. I returned to Sam's with my receipt and paid for the other
> one.

>
> It's just the right thing to do. Regardless, in the scheme of your
> life, is it worth feeling like a thief for this small monetary
> advantage? It wouldn't for my life.
>

>wasted hours of my time screwing up 'scripts.

> I'd not have been so honest considering that nobody's drawer would be
> short, and it was not my mistake, yet it would cost me time and money
> to make right.

> I'm not a thief, I'm the recipient of a mistake's spoils.

>I've been
> overcharged and ripped off enough

> they've wasted hours of my time screwing up 'scripts.

> On Aug 2, 10:01 pm, maxo gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> I'd not have been so honest considering that nobody's drawer would be
>> short, and it was not my mistake, yet it would cost me time and money
>> to make right.

>
> Not true. When inventory is short, someone pays.

> When I returned to
> Sam's to make things right, the manager could not thank me enough. He
> said when inventory comes up short, he is called on the carpet to
> answer for it,
>
> Cost you time and money to make it right? Give me a break. That's
> called rationalizing and justifying one's bad behavior.
>