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I'm weird and pretty good at doing math in my head, so every time I go shopping I keep a running total of everything I put in my cart. I can usually guess the total at the end including tax within a few pennies. It also serves as a cross check to make sure you weren't overcharged for something (a lot more common than people think) without having to stare at the little screen for everything being scanned.

I was at the store earlier and going to checkout. I skipped past the express lane because of course there was someone with 50 items ahead of me in line. I found a regular lane with only one person ahead but she was too big for me to even see her cart. Just my luck she has about 100 items to place one at a time at a snail's pace onto the belt, plus coupons and competitor's ads out the ass for almost all of it. After a few minutes of this I am absolutely staring daggers into this lady and the checkout person is even rolling their eyes and acutely aware that I'm pissed.

Finally it's my turn and she starts scanning my stuff and I'm not really paying attention. At the end the total is $15 less than I expected. I ended up with everything I intended to buy, but 3 or 4 items weren't on the receipt. Sometimes they occasionally miss a scan but this had to be intentional as some kind of reward for putting up with the earlier BS. I paid and left, but still kind of felt strange about the whole thing. I try to be honest, but it was a situation where I couldn't really get into any trouble and didn't care to get her in any trouble either. She works for an employer that treats her like dirt as it is, and I'm not particularly sorry that they missed out on getting my money. Would you have done the same thing?

yes.

Friday at Walmart I was buying like, $300 worth of stuff and the cashier and I were really joking around. I'm not the kind of person who is overly friendly and I don't "joke around" with cashiers very often and at some point the guy says, hey keep your mouth shut, will you? I am about to hook you up, but you gotta keep your mouth shut.

I have no idea what he is talking about but he does a bunch of typing and then says, don't say a word.

I say ok.

I get out to my car and I can't find what he did for me. I still paid almost $300 (what I thought I would pay).

Long story short, yes, I would let a cashier give me a deal. I think that act of defiance is more for them than me.

When I shop at Kroger they ask me everytime whether I want to pay 1 dollar for breast cancer research. I say no everytime. Does that make me a bad person? I feel that this is just a scam. Plus I do lot of other charities.

I bet 60% of cancer donations go for marketing and fundraising.

Today I bought a dented can of Campbell soup with a 50% off club card price on it. It was regular 1.39 on club card for .79 and the register took off 1.20 for the dent, so they paid me .41 to take it.

I went to Famous Footwear today. I found a pair that I liked and another pair that I liked that they didn't have in my size. The salesman says, "no problem, I can order them. Free shipping". Great I think.

We get to the register and he asks if I am a rewards member. I tell him no and he says "ok, cool. We'll sign you up...it only takes a minute. You have $5 coming back". I decline and he looks at me like I'm a crazy person. He then tells me that the shoes only ship for free if I'm a rewards member. I said "that's OK, just have them ship here (the store) and I'll pick them up". He tells me I'd still have to pay for shipping. I told him to never mind and left the store. Came home and found the same shoes on Amazon for cheaper and prime eligible (free shipping). Take your rewards program and shove it up your ass Famous Footwear.

A box of Hefty trash bags $14.99 on club card for 12.99 minus $3 for a just4u coupon minus $1 for a manufacturers ecoupon and the box had an instant coupon for a dollar off= 7.99.

The store by us has been running big gas saver stuff again...One was for every $50 you spend, you get $0.20 off per gallon of gas...We racked up a few of those and some other specials they had going. Gas is so cheap to begin with right now that we paid like $0.76 per gallon for 15 gallons last time we filled up the van. I think it cost us around $12 for a tank.

I bought two cans of starkist tuna on club card sale for .69 each. I had an e coupon for one dollar off two foil packages of starkist tuna. At checkout it was 38 cents- it took off the dollar coupon even though it was canned not in a package.

One time there was a 2 dollar off coupon for a giant box of Kudos granola bars that was like $1.50 or something after discounts/sales and we walked home with about 50 boxes of kudos that day.