Adventures in Shopping

Fred and I just got back from the grocery store. We went there mainly to get refunds on drink cans and plastic bottles, but, you know how it is–there is always something you can get while you are there and I knew there were two things on the list I keep on the refrigerator. The top one was bread flour because I made raisin bread this morning and that almost emptied the flour canister. I also told Fred I needed crisp apples although I knew that wasn’t the second thing on the list!

Anyway, we managed to accumulate enough groceries to fill four plastic bags.  One of the bags was full of bread and hamburger buns on sale, and another had sausages and meat, both picked out by Fred, and thus, of course, both on sale. I used our household debit card and after the initial confusion when it was refused for wrong pin number, I suddenly realized that, yes, I WAS putting in the wrong pin number!   I was putting in my personal account number!  After that was corrected, the total came up to be $90 and some change.

Ummm, I don’t think so! Four bags — two of which were full of sale items –and a bill of almost $100? I think not!

So, I pointed this out to the checker and she printed out the receipt. Then we saw that some meat which was on sale for around $8 had been rung up for some strange reason as over $70! She apologetically told me that I would have to go to the service desk to get a refund and went over with me where she snagged a young man. He pressed lots of buttons and told me they couldn’t give me a credit on this card since the card was a debit card! He said, "I can only give you a cash refund!" Ok, I had no problem with this and so he gave me $62 and some change. I put the money in my purse, and when we got home, transferred the same amount from my personal account to our household account! {I think I may have mentioned before how much I on-line banking, right?}

Oh, and on the way out, I saw the particular kitchen-paper roll that was the second thing on my list! We did NOT go back for it!

Until later….