If this happened in the US, he would be clear in 7 year by the statute of limitations. If it happened in England, then he would still be in trouble since England has no statute of limitations for criminal offenses. Could be one of the reasons he lives in Prague. Next TopTenz video: top 10 (criminal) reasons why Simon no longer lives in England (on the lamb)
me and a friend did the exact same in college with crates of coke and redbull we almost got caught when we brought 10 crates back to class ending in one idiot exploding some cans in an elevator putting it out of use OOPS.
My question is more for the mom than the child. How do you pay for your shopping without noticing that your bill is way more expensive than the amount it should be? Maybe it's just me, but if my shopping were 70 more dollars than what I expected to pay- I wouldn't have the fucking money to pay it. That poverty life, yo.
I once drove a neighbor who I found out later was a professional shoplifter. He went through the self check-out at Walmart, and didn't scan over two-thirds of the groceries, and then paid for what he did scan with food stamps. Another time he said that he grabbed a power tool from Home Depot and was walking out the store with through the Gardening department, when an Employee said something to him. Without batting an eye, he just turned and said "don't you just hate waiting in those long lines?" and kept on walking out with the merchandise.
Actually they stopped doing that here aside from the fact they need someone on staff to help with any STUPID shit that happens like when you improperly scan something or just move stuff around in your bag and the self-check out freaks out thinking you removed something.
@@_Abjuranax_ first time i met one of my best friends we stole a plastic lid from wallmart. She needed something to put her dishrack on top of to keep water from spilling out and there was this plastic box that had a cover that was perfect for that, but she didnt feel like paying for the whole thing. Since the cover didnt have any code or sensor on it, we just grabbed it and left. Right past the security guard. He didnt say a thing
Many years ago, I was doing my "single guy" shopping. Beer, cigarettes and Ramen noodles. The cashier was scanning the items and neither one of us were paying attention. I thought the final bill was a little low, but the cashier said nothing. When I got home and looked at the receipt, I realized I had gotten a $15 carton of cigarettes for 19 cents, which is what each bag of Ramen noodles cost. COMPUTER ERROR! Not my fault. I quit smoking 10 years ago. 😁
Yes! It was like after watching her as Rose on Golden Girls, I saw Betty White in Lake Placid..."if I had a dick I'd tell you to suck it" I still laugh when I watch it. Simon always makes me smile lol
Around thanksgiving of 2003, the bolt on the starter that held my car's starter grounding wire dropped off (just a couple of inches, but the starter was still ungrounded, so it didn't work). I went to AutoZone to pick up a new starter. Ford sucks, so the starter was easily accessed by simply removing the entire engine, and I'm not really a mechanic (I can change the oil, but a lot more than that and I need an adult). I picked up the starter, paying for the part but somehow negotiating away the need to pay a core charge. I got home, noticed the loose wire, secured it, then drove the part back unused and got a refund. Different employee also refunded the core charge. I informed him I hadn't paid it, but he insisted I had. All in all, I left $40 richer. When they had closed for the evening, I received a call from the manager. Seems that register was short $40 and they had me on file. I took the money back, and told the manager I informed the cashier that I didn't deserve the money because I never paid it. Everyone calls me dumb for not keeping it, and that's fine. Is rather be called dumb for doing the right thing than push a lot of crap that I didn't deserve.
That's really sweet. At one time, I was at a highschool for kids with behavioral problems, and in the school- if you were good on your "school work", they'd have you work up to four days a week. Mostly local businesses- but you were more or less free labor for them, as it was actually the school paying you, rather than the business. For awhile I was working at CVS. I was on cashier a lot, but since I wasn't working through corporate, I didn't have an employee ID number and had to use my co-workers. So there wasn't a record of who was at the cashier at any given time. One day I went into work and got pulled aside by the boss who said I had left the till 50 dollars short the previous day, despite the fact that I had only rung two people out for small transactions. Clearly my co-worker had either fucked up or pocketed 50$ and planned to blame it on me. It really sucked, as I already had enough stigma- having grown up in poverty, in a not so great part of town, and had gotten kicked out of mainstream highschool. I was able to keep working there, but I constantly got side eyed by my boss and a few coworkers. Good on you for being honest. There's a good chance you saved someone's job.
One of the biggest price blunders in US history was the Montgomery ward “microwave blunder” back in the 70s, when $199 microwaves were sold for $1.99 due to a printing error in the Montgomery ward catalog. Although the price was obviously an error, it is illegal to advertise misleading prices to customers in most US states and company had no choice but to honor the $1.99 price until the sale ended on the date printed in the ad. As microwaves were still extremely expensive at the time (think Keurig coffee machines as a modern price equivalent ) Hundreds of thousands of customers flocked to Montgomery ward to take advantage of the super low price, costing the company tens of millions of dollars and heavily contributed to the company’s downfall a few years later.
I once got an LCD monitor for $12 from CompUSA they said you sure you want it? It does not work and there's no power cord. This was 2006. All it needed was a power cord. YAY! for me
Coming to this channel after watching Simon on his other channels is like seeing your teachers outside of school for the first time... at rap concert.... totally smashed!!
I've taken a while to appreciate your new style. Stodgy with hot undertones was your old vibe. But this 'We're all fools & friends here' version has definitely grown on me. TgT
If ever my bank account suddenly has a couple million dollars rather than just cents it has currently, I will definitely be taking Simon's advice and earn the interest.
That happened to us! Well, sorta kinda. In 1976 we were moving about 3 hours away so we went to close out the account. Come to find out there were several thousands in there, not the $150.00 we expected. So we took it and ran! Come to find out it was brother in laws money! Oopsie! 🤣 MIL opened accounts for all the kids when they were little. It was done all at the same time so the accounts had sequential numbers & similar names. The bank had been putting the money in Hubby's account accidentally! Bank paid back BIL & we had a little more moving money! 👍😁
I had to wait 22weeks for a new bank card for some reason or another, after complaining to the bank about the wait, I received an apology and was credited with £10 to cover any phone calls that I made to customer services, but all the calls I made were from inside the bank on their phones so I basically got £10 for nothing........
I LOVE Simon. Initially when I first started watching his vids, he seemed so stiff and staid, but over the years he's loosened up and now shows us his sense of humor. Seems like a he'd be a fun person to know.
The two are different in the UK, their both terraced but to be a town house it generaly needs 3+ floors where as most terraces have just 2 (and maybe a cellar which is just a damp coal bunker inder the front room)
One topic that you can delve into is how LEGO almost went bankrupt, and how the company were able to make a remarkable recovery. Here’s a few general points: •LEGO hired a bunch of people that were smart, but didn’t know toy design •Lego’s core themes, especially Town, got neglected as they kept trying all sorts of new things. Despite being beloved, Bioncle was among these, but it actually succeeded. •Among all these new ideas came Galidor, widely regarded as the worst LEGO theme ever •When the then new CEO took over, he immediately went to work to reverse the near bankruptcy the company was facing
or how Circuit City switched from commissions to hourly salespeople, causing a massive death spiral of employees with absolutely no incentive to help customers. www.sfgate.com/business/article/Circuit-City-firing-its-best-salesmen-2635042.php
I had to come over here to watch this video to keep myself from verbally abusing the people in the comments of your top ten typos video. Talk about people with nothing better to do! Love this channel and can’t wait for the zebra mask 😘
@Bo Reed No. The whole point of the promo was to have people come over from that channel. And I like people who support me in what I do. Thank you Jessica.
I love all of your "Allegedly" stories. I know a lot of UA-camr don't view yourselves as celebrities, but for many years you have been to many of us. But you're so much more relatable and human than traditional celebrities.
If someone deposited a few (hundred) mil into my bank account, I’d sit on it and collect interest. Oh, it’s yours? Here you go. Walk off quietly with my thousands or hundreds of thousands in interest.
Just discovered this channel, I like the fact Simon is more chill and doesn't care about being serious as much as Today I Found out, and he just brings up stories and stuff, I like this style more.
I always have a habit of looking at the prices on the Aisle and compare everything on my bills Especially during weekly shopping! 50% of the time something is overpriced while on sale Very few times I had to pay less for their mistake!
The electric company handed my mom a $4,000 electric bill one time because it turned out she was paying an "estimated bill" for many months without knowing (or being told by the company) that we were using more power than the estimated bill was for. So for all those months she was paying only a portion of what the actual bill was, then was suddenly told "oh by the way you owe us $4,000, give it to us or you won't have power". Thankfully she was able to pay it off monthly over time, but if the bill showed what it was supposed to be in the first place we would have lowered our power usage considerably and we wouldn't have had the issue to begin with.
Wasn’t sure about the informal style of this channel at first (all the other channels fronted by Simon are so tightly produced) but this is fast becoming my favourite of the Whistler empire!
Many years ago I worked as a checkout attendant in a large village supermarket. Was on the early morning shift and an old lady bought a pastie which scanned at £1,700. She was a little surprised by this (as was I). They had reset some price codes overnight and this caused the error in the only 2 pasties on sale next morning.
Another Aussie received a huge deposit when a bank employee entered the BSB and account number in the wrong field - he also contacted them, got laughed at and ended up contacting the media to get the bank to take him seriously. Also "Theft by finding" - if you find a large sum of money you're meant to report it or could technically be charged with theft if the police find out it was you. Assuming the person who lost it filed a report and they can prove that's the money you found
2:15 - Chapter 1 - Not enough bread 5:15 - Chapter 2 - The invisible radium ass 8:15 - Chapter 3 - An alarming tale 10:05 - Chapter 4 - The biggest phone bill in history 11:35 - Chapter 5 - 123 000 000 error
In the 1970s, an energy company in Melbourne, AU, started using computers to do the billing; they were overconfident in their system (or their employees' ability to use it) and abandoned manual billing / checking too soon. A customer received one of the new computer-generated bills - for $0.00. Deciding to make a point, he sent the company a cheque for $0.00. When that amount was entered into the system, mayhem ensued: the computer system crashed and it took days to reprogram it so that it could deal with the amount of $0.00.
I worked om checkouts for awhile I remember one day I scan some carrots they came up as $20,000 I ask the customer that will be 20k she said, what why, I replied they are Organic. we had a good laugh before giving them to her for free.
A friend of mine was once the 'victim' of a software glitch involving the company's time clock. He normally worked 30 hours per week but one week the time clock said that he clocked in on a Wednesday and didn't clock out again - at all that week. The automated system credited him with, and paid him for, over 90 hours that week. He said nothing and the company never caught it.
Security tech here; regarding ADT. A battery costs about AUD$15 to $40 depending on supplier and quantity. It's reasonable to charge $40-60 for one, although there are stores that charge $40 retail so it's not good to go above that. It's the type of job you'll spend more time parking and organising keys for than actually doing. I might be in and out in 10 minutes, but I'll charge you the half hour of my day that it takes. On the plus side, If I'm doing 5 to 10 of them I would only charge for an hour or two. As for the system being too old, it's annoying but it happens. We had some techs who *couldn't* be sent to the older systems, because they don't have the tools or experience to work on them - I had a windows 7 laptop with an old style serial port (USB serial wouldn't work), and a (heavily modded) Windows NT dual boot just to deal with some of our older systems. This type of problem should be noticed by the Despatch team before they select which tech to send on the job, and if you can walk out in 5 minutes without fixing anything, the accounts team should read the notes and not charge the job.
We (daughter & I + 5 grandkids, all boys age 7-17) stopped at the taco truck for lunch. Ordered 4 carnitas tacos a piece @ $2.00 each. Thats 28 tacos & should be $56.00 + tax. We got our food, I held up my debit card to the gal & she walked away! I waited. And waited. And waited! We could hear them chatting in the back but after several long minutes she never came back! So we left! Thanks for the free food! 👍😁
Got a bill for $0.00 great. Bug I kept getting it then threaded with more bills. I had to write a check for $0.00 they would not take cash, and I didn't give it, technically.
Back when I worked as a cashier at a military commissary, one of our customers came to the store with a receipt showing that she'd paid $78.78 for a jar of hot fudge topping that should have been 78 cents. It was easy to see what happened - the person entering the prices into the computer stuttered on the keys. I once mistakenly rang up some cans of cat food as 50-pound bags of dog food, which resulted in a charge of more than $200.
There was a story from about 10 years ago about a petrol station in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK which, during a row about fuel pricing, in which a litre of fuel was being sold at 33p! Cue long queues as locals got to hear about the cheap petrol! However, it turned out that the price was a mistake, as the wrong price had been entered! As soon as the error was reported to the petrol station management, it was halted.
Right before my son was born we were shopping on walmarts website, looking for a play pen, or portable crib. They posted one for $2.00 so we bought two. Later that day it was reposted at $200.00. Can't beat that!
😂😅🤣 I pissed myself laughing with you in this vid. You have such a wicked sense of humour & quick wit. Loved this channel from the get go & has become my favourite channel of the Whistler Co. 👊🤘
2 years ago, our monthly water bill came through as (South African) R330 633 (About $22 400). Our bill is usually about R600, so this was about 550 months, all charged in one bill. Long story short, it took us 11 months to sort out, during which they threatened to take our house to cover the bill (paid off and worh R1.2m, about $80 000), even though they admitted they had not actually taken a water reading from the meter in 6+ years! In the end, we got the account written off, R3600 credit and a new water meter at their expense, so we could try again. We now take a photo of the reading monthly and take it to them, to work out the bill. We are also down to average R450 a month and they still have not come out to check!
I used to work in customer service for EE. For quote a while, every single customer would, on their third bill, be charged £51.95 for 'Time charge normal weekday fulfilment'. Nobody in the call center had any idea what this meant. We weren't told to just credit it, but we were told to credit any unusual item if there was no ticket about it. Which there never was, because it was a bug. That bug was eventually fixed, but then people started randomly getting charged £114 for I can't remember what that one was called. We'd regularly get people complaining that their bills were too high, and more often than not it turned out that the charged were legitimate because premium rate numbers are evil. One of the other agents had a guy with a bill of over £9,000 (insert DragonBall Z joke) for what appeared to be a sex chat line. Another got a call from some sort of Arabian oil sheik with a bill for over £12,000 in international calls, and he paid that without complaint as if it was just normal.
I know a guy who bought a $2.50 sandwich, but they somehow accidentally charged him $250. He noticed it on his VISA statement and went back to sort it out. They apologized, and attempted to refund the sandwich, but screwed up again and and instead charged him a further $250.
Amazon almost gave me a $1500 TV. I let it go for a while thinking they would figure it out, but they never did. 3 months later, I called them and told them about it. My conscience was beating the crap out of me the whole time.
Most memorable one is mispriced shot glasses. Big chain liquor store put 2 flats of 100 shot glasses on clearance but blundered and listed it as $0.10 instead of $1.00 each. I bought 10 and kindly pointed out the obvious mistake to the clerk, who then proceeded to try and charge me the $1/ea. I pointed that WI laws state you have to give it for the cheaper price and he was only losing $9 on my purchase. He still acted angry that I wouldn't let him charge the higher price, and I told him I'd just buy all 200 (cuz for me it'd be $20, big deal); he stared at me like I was joking as he was scanning some other goods, and I told him 1 sec while I grab a soda..... Came back with both flats and said I was going to purchase these. The guy has always given me 'that look' ever since whenever I shop there. lol
In my state, Connecitcut, we have a Law, where if a consumer commodity (basicly food and household items) scans at a higher price then the sign says, you are entitled to 1 of those items for free, up to a value of $20.00. And the stores have to put signs up informing the shoppers of this. I think this should be the law everywhere. It definstely makes the stores do a much better job at pricing and signage (I was working in retail when this was enacted, and in the first few weeks my store hired 5 new full time employees that there entire job was checking signage to what the items scanned at and fixxing any errors. Theoretically the store should only give out 1 item for free, they should then IMMIDATELY fix the problem. But that only happens when there is enough staff on hand to be able to change the signs.
Oh man, I use those discount cards as much as possible. It’s the same when I order food online. I was a cashier in my much younger days so I go over my receipts every time. Simon, you crack me up on this channel. I love all of your channels but I giggle 🤭 every episode of this one. Carry on. 👍🏻. Edit: I worked in telecommunications for nearly 20yrs. I won’t say which one, but the horror stories of stupidity I’ve heard would fill volumes of books. It’s stunning.
I always check that the specials are charged correctly. More than once I've gotten to the till and they haven't changed the prices. Another thing I do is, if something is labeled on special I take a photo of the tag on the shelf. This stops another practice I've encountered. It comes up at full price at the till and when you point this out, they send someone to go look to see if the price is right, they remove the tag, claiming it isn't on special anymore and that there was no tag, or that there is a tag, but it was for a different product or brand. Which also brings me to another issue. Putting the tag for the wrong brand under something that is not on sale. Or if it is something like shampoos, they put it under the conditioners instead. So you land up getting the wrong item. This causes issues big time.
I had a business forty years ago that usually deposited about 3 thousand dollars a month in my local bank. (way before checking your balance online was a thing). I was shocked to get a monthly statement with one deposit of over 10 grand! I called the bank and told them there was an error, and if somebody was missing ten grand I knew where it was. They took the info, thanked me, but the money remained in the account the next month. I called them again, and said the least they could do was when they finally figure out where it goes, leave me the interest that accrued. It took four months (and more calls) before the money was out of my account, and yes, they left me the bit of interest. No flowers though.
My mother just got charged double for Cox's tv last month do to a computer flaw on their side and they still show she didn't pay so charged 2xs as much and still shut off her tv. And all they say "it's only $500, nothing we can do anyway it's our computers. Just ask the bank for a loan. Have a good day and thank you for choosing Cox's bye." It's Nov. And still trying to fix it.
a string with a weight on one end, and a cable saw on the other. see those sneakers hanging from the telephone lines? you get the idea. Seriously, on a brighter note, if you live in the US, sue them in small claims court for whatever the bill is, and have the judge order them to apply your judgment to the open bill, AND CORRECT YOUR MOTHER'S CREDIT REPORTS!
Great Dan Quayle thumbnail. (Remember when misspelling a vegetable was enough to disqualify one from elected federal office in the U.S.?) My story related to this video is that one time when I was in college, my local grocery store’s cash register system went down. This was back before Internet. The cashier, who was the store manager, told me he could only do cash transactions, and he’d have to guess on the prices for everything as he rang me up on a calculator. He told me to say something if I thought he was charging too much. He made up a price for each item, and those made-up prices were like 10-25% of the actual price. $40 of groceries came to like $8 and change. He looked at me, winked, and said, "How about $5?" I said sure! I only wish I had bought more groceries - and asked if he wanted to go grab a drink sometime. I swear he was flirting. I was too happy about my grocery discount to realize that he was flirting, though.
You should do a video on how this bald British expat on the internet named Simon Whistler managed to start his own little mini-empire of UA-cam channels and how he manages to do so many of them simultaneously.
My insurance company accidentally charged my account $21,500 for my monthly premium instead of $215 a few months back. They profusely apologized and called my bank for me and got any overdraft fees waived and everything. It did scare the shit out of my receiving that robo text message notification from my bank stating “a charge of $21,500 has been withdrawn from your account”.
There was a case recently about a kid who got arrested on trying that DVD trick but with PS4. The scam succeeded the first time, but he got arrested when he tried to do it again.
here in New York the little moron probably would have gotten arrested when he tried to return it for a refund. "Hmmm, my COMPUTER says this was stolen, and here is the video. Smile, you're on UNcandid camera, dufus!"
Yeah here in Stevenage while it's not quite the Slum town Lewis Hamilton would have you think it's definately not Baller territory, about 80% of the shops are now bargin orientated and we lost both M&S and Waitrose (only slightly posher) due to lack of custom, it also doesn't suprise me Asda will only give you £2.
it sounds to me based on the story that the grandma might have been being taken care of by the daughter, early dementia kind of thing. would explain why she's checking her mom's receipts and why grandma might have missed it.
Video 22 Danny is back, as he always does. Figured the last few videos where recorded a while before the ones with Danny. Only the second rimshot ever! Danny is making Simon laugh again 😍
I got a story for this one! You know how magazines sometimes come with small novelties that are collected separately? Back when I worked at Woolies, those items would ring up for a single penny till you scanned through the magazine, at which point the single cent charge would be deducted. One time there were these plush dogs, and someone collected the lot thinking that they were a completely separate item on sale instead of a package deal that they were with the magazine. For whatever reason, the cashier operating the till was completely oblivious to this fact. I do not remember the amount, but the whole lot had to have sold for just under a dollar and no one was the wiser for weeks afterward. Turns out this is a fairly regular occurrence due to how repetitive and quick employees are expected to be at Woolworths. With such monotonous job, it is pretty easy to miss mistakes when you are under pressure to get every little thing done ASAP.
Another one from my time at Woolies; I once had a woman come through with a moderate amount of groceries. The final price was well into the triple digit dollar amount. Going through the bag, we found several ounces of lunchmeat had a decimal in the wrong place and was worth ten times than what it should have been worth.
Tip: if you get montly charged for something you didn't asked to, just go to the bank and block THAT account ... it's much quicker than sending messages to that company (they will ignore them anyway).
I enjoy all of your content. Thanks for creating it. I definitely have at least one of your channels playing on a daily basis when I am doing something.
When I was a kid I went to the store with my parents to buy food for a big family camping trip, they found some huge coolers, and put everything in them in the store to make sure everything that they were bringing would fit in the coolers. Well when they went through the checkout the cashier forgot to scan the coolers, and they didn't notice tell they were on the trip
I once got an accidental deposit into my newly opened bank account that I knew was not mine, as the balance on the ATM claimed that I suddenly had some $1000, overnight. I withdrew a large amount of it and waited to see how long a "call" would take. In a few days a very nervously but polite bank representative called and asked if I could bring the money back for redeposit, as they had made a mistake, giving me an ATM card with my name, but a local company's account number. I gave it back and switched banks.
Maybe cause I'm Asian, but since I was a kid, I always estimated how much the groceries would cost before checking out and seeing how well it would match. If it didn't I would automatically check the receipt
I am not Asian but i generally know how much things cost, so if the price seems to high or to low i check recipe. Several times i spotted errors, surprisingly most were in my favor and being a honest person would inform the cashier about them to correct, i do not leave the que before i verify, if i suspect something is wrong, because if you do they won't correct any errors that are in theire favor (is the law in my country and you need to do a scene to management and they can just say no)
"This one's slightly illegal... A roommate of mine at university..."
Good cover, Simon ;)
If this happened in the US, he would be clear in 7 year by the statute of limitations. If it happened in England, then he would still be in trouble since England has no statute of limitations for criminal offenses.
Could be one of the reasons he lives in Prague. Next TopTenz video: top 10 (criminal) reasons why Simon no longer lives in England (on the lamb)
@@timothyneiswander3151 Hahaha, yeah, I had to flee ;).
me and a friend did the exact same in college with crates of coke and redbull we almost got caught when we brought 10 crates back to class ending in one idiot exploding some cans in an elevator putting it out of use OOPS.
"Just asking for a friend guys" - Simon
@@timothyneiswander3151 wait are you fucking kidding.... theres no statute of limitations??? That's sort of terrifying lol
"....a few extra zeros.".... in America we call that a medical bill.
That comment hurt in my pocket more then you'll ever know.
@@Jennifer_Devote Right
Unless it's GrayStillPlays.....then whatever you started with was "rookie numbers". :P
Maybe stop voting against your own interests then.
@@chuckphilpot7756 while essentially every other country has a public medical system ?
"Who does that? Who checks their mom's shopping receipt?"
Probably someone whose mother spends 71 britbucks on bread
My mother checks my receipts. Of course I am a whippersnapper of 56, male and therefore incompetent.
True.
@@brainblaze6526 Something tells me I should check your receipts. I have my club cards on a keyring.
Love the term "britbucks", btw!
My question is more for the mom than the child. How do you pay for your shopping without noticing that your bill is way more expensive than the amount it should be? Maybe it's just me, but if my shopping were 70 more dollars than what I expected to pay- I wouldn't have the fucking money to pay it. That poverty life, yo.
Simon’s friend is the exact reason there are employees at the self checkouts that stand there (or walk around) and watch you.
I once drove a neighbor who I found out later was a professional shoplifter. He went through the self check-out at Walmart, and didn't scan over two-thirds of the groceries, and then paid for what he did scan with food stamps. Another time he said that he grabbed a power tool from Home Depot and was walking out the store with through the Gardening department, when an Employee said something to him. Without batting an eye, he just turned and said "don't you just hate waiting in those long lines?" and kept on walking out with the merchandise.
Actually they stopped doing that here aside from the fact they need someone on staff to help with any STUPID shit that happens like when you improperly scan something or just move stuff around in your bag and the self-check out freaks out thinking you removed something.
Unless thry are understaffed and busy with something else or just talking with other.
@@_Abjuranax_ first time i met one of my best friends we stole a plastic lid from wallmart. She needed something to put her dishrack on top of to keep water from spilling out and there was this plastic box that had a cover that was perfect for that, but she didnt feel like paying for the whole thing. Since the cover didnt have any code or sensor on it, we just grabbed it and left. Right past the security guard. He didnt say a thing
@@badrequest5596 Thug life
Many years ago, I was doing my "single guy" shopping. Beer, cigarettes and Ramen noodles. The cashier was scanning the items and neither one of us were paying attention. I thought the final bill was a little low, but the cashier said nothing. When I got home and looked at the receipt, I realized I had gotten a $15 carton of cigarettes for 19 cents, which is what each bag of Ramen noodles cost. COMPUTER ERROR! Not my fault.
I quit smoking 10 years ago. 😁
I love this channel. All the cussing. He’s so prim and proper on the other channels.
Ron Geissler exactly!
Glad you're enjoying it :)
Same here, love the other channels but this is far more chill.
It's rather refreshing.
Yes! It was like after watching her as Rose on Golden Girls, I saw Betty White in Lake Placid..."if I had a dick I'd tell you to suck it" I still laugh when I watch it. Simon always makes me smile lol
The title should of read.
“Top 5 of Simons shopping stories”
I love it!
Hahaha true, but who wants to click on that? Gotta clickbait the shit out of it.
But you never go full-clickbait.
@@brainblaze6526 - ....or it should have at least had the word *"POTATO"* spelled correctly.
Around thanksgiving of 2003, the bolt on the starter that held my car's starter grounding wire dropped off (just a couple of inches, but the starter was still ungrounded, so it didn't work). I went to AutoZone to pick up a new starter. Ford sucks, so the starter was easily accessed by simply removing the entire engine, and I'm not really a mechanic (I can change the oil, but a lot more than that and I need an adult). I picked up the starter, paying for the part but somehow negotiating away the need to pay a core charge.
I got home, noticed the loose wire, secured it, then drove the part back unused and got a refund. Different employee also refunded the core charge. I informed him I hadn't paid it, but he insisted I had. All in all, I left $40 richer. When they had closed for the evening, I received a call from the manager. Seems that register was short $40 and they had me on file. I took the money back, and told the manager I informed the cashier that I didn't deserve the money because I never paid it.
Everyone calls me dumb for not keeping it, and that's fine. Is rather be called dumb for doing the right thing than push a lot of crap that I didn't deserve.
That's really sweet. At one time, I was at a highschool for kids with behavioral problems, and in the school- if you were good on your "school work", they'd have you work up to four days a week. Mostly local businesses- but you were more or less free labor for them, as it was actually the school paying you, rather than the business.
For awhile I was working at CVS. I was on cashier a lot, but since I wasn't working through corporate, I didn't have an employee ID number and had to use my co-workers. So there wasn't a record of who was at the cashier at any given time. One day I went into work and got pulled aside by the boss who said I had left the till 50 dollars short the previous day, despite the fact that I had only rung two people out for small transactions. Clearly my co-worker had either fucked up or pocketed 50$ and planned to blame it on me. It really sucked, as I already had enough stigma- having grown up in poverty, in a not so great part of town, and had gotten kicked out of mainstream highschool. I was able to keep working there, but I constantly got side eyed by my boss and a few coworkers.
Good on you for being honest. There's a good chance you saved someone's job.
One of the biggest price blunders in US history was the Montgomery ward “microwave blunder” back in the 70s, when $199 microwaves were sold for $1.99 due to a printing error in the Montgomery ward catalog. Although the price was obviously an error, it is illegal to advertise misleading prices to customers in most US states and company had no choice but to honor the $1.99 price until the sale ended on the date printed in the ad. As microwaves were still extremely expensive at the time (think Keurig coffee machines as a modern price equivalent ) Hundreds of thousands of customers flocked to Montgomery ward to take advantage of the super low price, costing the company tens of millions of dollars and heavily contributed to the company’s downfall a few years later.
I always check my reciepts. Have saved thousands over the years, from computer errors to sales persons to missed sale prices.
I once got an LCD monitor for $12 from CompUSA they said you sure you want it? It does not work and there's no power cord. This was 2006. All it needed was a power cord. YAY! for me
Coming to this channel after watching Simon on his other channels is like seeing your teachers outside of school for the first time... at rap concert.... totally smashed!!
"wasn't actually me" safe with us dude
Gotta like the more casual, comedic approach on this channel.
Glad you enjoy it :)
I love getting baked and watching these videos, keep it up man
lol aye
👍👌
@@brainblaze6526 this channel made me a fan imho give simon more freeeedom on other channels
Why do you think its called Business Blaze? I think Simon might blaze it up before shooting blaze. Lol
That "Ba Da Bom Bom Tiss" was so epic, I had to rewind to watch it twice!
I've taken a while to appreciate your new style. Stodgy with hot undertones was your old vibe. But this 'We're all fools & friends here' version has definitely grown on me. TgT
"Jesus Christ that must of been a slow news day." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If ever my bank account suddenly has a couple million dollars rather than just cents it has currently, I will definitely be taking Simon's advice and earn the interest.
Dont forget to send me my cut ;).
@@brainblaze6526 I already calculated your commission.
That happened to us! Well, sorta kinda. In 1976 we were moving about 3 hours away so we went to close out the account. Come to find out there were several thousands in there, not the $150.00 we expected. So we took it and ran! Come to find out it was brother in laws money! Oopsie! 🤣 MIL opened accounts for all the kids when they were little. It was done all at the same time so the accounts had sequential numbers & similar names. The bank had been putting the money in Hubby's account accidentally! Bank paid back BIL & we had a little more moving money! 👍😁
I had a company som ten years ago that once accidentally billed $32.000.000 for an annual subscription for a domain and a website.
I had to wait 22weeks for a new bank card for some reason or another, after complaining to the bank about the wait, I received an apology and was credited with £10 to cover any phone calls that I made to customer services, but all the calls I made were from inside the bank on their phones so I basically got £10 for nothing........
You clearly don’t value your time highly
I LOVE Simon. Initially when I first started watching his vids, he seemed so stiff and staid, but over the years he's loosened up and now shows us his sense of humor. Seems like a he'd be a fun person to know.
I love Simon Whistler’s style on Business Blaze! This video is everything I love about this channel. :)
Thanks :)
Yis
We call terraced houses, Town Houses in the states.
The two are different in the UK, their both terraced but to be a town house it generaly needs 3+ floors where as most terraces have just 2 (and maybe a cellar which is just a damp coal bunker inder the front room)
@@jhfdhgvnbjm75 in the states, both are called town houses, and what you call terraced is more common.
Indeed.
Simon: They are houses that are in a row.
Me: What?
Words: The Harry Potter ones
Me: Oh!
One topic that you can delve into is how LEGO almost went bankrupt, and how the company were able to make a remarkable recovery. Here’s a few general points:
•LEGO hired a bunch of people that were smart, but didn’t know toy design
•Lego’s core themes, especially Town, got neglected as they kept trying all sorts of new things. Despite being beloved, Bioncle was among these, but it actually succeeded.
•Among all these new ideas came Galidor, widely regarded as the worst LEGO theme ever
•When the then new CEO took over, he immediately went to work to reverse the near bankruptcy the company was facing
or how Circuit City switched from commissions to hourly salespeople, causing a massive death spiral of employees with absolutely no incentive to help customers. www.sfgate.com/business/article/Circuit-City-firing-its-best-salesmen-2635042.php
My opinion of a company is much more dependent upon how they handle mistakes, then on not making mistakes.
Discovered you had this channel yesterday and I cannot stop watching and laughing! Amazing work, this format of videos is fantastic :)
Thanks :D
I ALWAYS check my grocery recipes when in the car before I pull off.
Yeah, your "roommate" . Wonder if it made the DVD taste better too 😎 lolz
I had to come over here to watch this video to keep myself from verbally abusing the people in the comments of your top ten typos video. Talk about people with nothing better to do! Love this channel and can’t wait for the zebra mask 😘
@Bo Reed No. The whole point of the promo was to have people come over from that channel. And I like people who support me in what I do. Thank you Jessica.
I've never heard "Terrace Home," before, but apparently the word in America is "Townhouse."
It depends on where you are. Here in Pittsburgh and other Eastern cities such as Baltimore the term is simply "row house"
Oh-Oooh, take the money and run!
- Steve Miller Band
I only discovered your new channel this afternoon and I’ve already watched all your videos. Keep up the great work!
"Harry Potter ones" for the America's... LMFAO!
I love all of your "Allegedly" stories. I know a lot of UA-camr don't view yourselves as celebrities, but for many years you have been to many of us. But you're so much more relatable and human than traditional celebrities.
Damn how do you sleep man. You have like 5 channels
Actually he is the host of 7 channels atm, but yeah, busy man.
He's a clone
Or he's a deep fake.....
Exactly Doug, he’s CGI. I haven’t seen him at a grocery store *ever*
@@boarder6246 Of course not... he has to be stealthy now that they found out about his self-checkout weighing scam.
If someone deposited a few (hundred) mil into my bank account, I’d sit on it and collect interest. Oh, it’s yours? Here you go.
Walk off quietly with my thousands or hundreds of thousands in interest.
Just discovered this channel, I like the fact Simon is more chill and doesn't care about being serious as much as Today I Found out, and he just brings up stories and stuff, I like this style more.
Glad you like it :).
I absolutely love all of your channels and the content you cover.
Thanks :)
I always have a habit of looking at the prices on the Aisle and compare everything on my bills
Especially during weekly shopping! 50% of the time something is overpriced while on sale
Very few times I had to pay less for their mistake!
The electric company handed my mom a $4,000 electric bill one time because it turned out she was paying an "estimated bill" for many months without knowing (or being told by the company) that we were using more power than the estimated bill was for. So for all those months she was paying only a portion of what the actual bill was, then was suddenly told "oh by the way you owe us $4,000, give it to us or you won't have power".
Thankfully she was able to pay it off monthly over time, but if the bill showed what it was supposed to be in the first place we would have lowered our power usage considerably and we wouldn't have had the issue to begin with.
Legend has it, she's still receiving roses to this day.
I’ve been watching these videos start to finish almost all day at work for the last few weeks. I am becoming a blazing legend.
I like the infamous Quayle potato in your thumbnail.
It's called "not knowing how to spell"
Wasn’t sure about the informal style of this channel at first (all the other channels fronted by Simon are so tightly produced) but this is fast becoming my favourite of the Whistler empire!
Thanks :). Glad you gave it a chance :)
My own one: I used my debit card for a £2 sandwich in the Stansted WH Smith and it randomly spat out about £4 in change
That’s a win
Wow, this one actually has the link spoken of in the video. Thanks for including it!
I know. But don't get used to it ;)
Many years ago I worked as a checkout attendant in a large village supermarket.
Was on the early morning shift and an old lady bought a pastie which scanned at £1,700. She was a little surprised by this (as was I).
They had reset some price codes overnight and this caused the error in the only 2 pasties on sale next morning.
Another Aussie received a huge deposit when a bank employee entered the BSB and account number in the wrong field - he also contacted them, got laughed at and ended up contacting the media to get the bank to take him seriously.
Also "Theft by finding" - if you find a large sum of money you're meant to report it or could technically be charged with theft if the police find out it was you. Assuming the person who lost it filed a report and they can prove that's the money you found
2:15 - Chapter 1 - Not enough bread
5:15 - Chapter 2 - The invisible radium ass
8:15 - Chapter 3 - An alarming tale
10:05 - Chapter 4 - The biggest phone bill in history
11:35 - Chapter 5 - 123 000 000 error
In the 1970s, an energy company in Melbourne, AU, started using computers to do the billing; they were overconfident in their system (or their employees' ability to use it) and abandoned manual billing / checking too soon.
A customer received one of the new computer-generated bills - for $0.00. Deciding to make a point, he sent the company a cheque for $0.00. When that amount was entered into the system, mayhem ensued: the computer system crashed and it took days to reprogram it so that it could deal with the amount of $0.00.
Has Simon put on the zebra mask yet? I may not have watched closely enough on recent videos ;)
I have been watching every video. It has not happened yet.
Recorded the video with it yesterday :D. Coming next week I should think ;)
I've watched so much business blaze in quarantine last night I dreamed my Simon was my best friend and we had a tearful DMC
This channel is a lot more casual I kind of like it
I worked om checkouts for awhile I remember one day I scan some carrots they came up as $20,000 I ask the customer that will be 20k she said, what why, I replied they are Organic. we had a good laugh before giving them to her for free.
Love all your channels Simon
"must have been a glitch in the system"? LOL, sounds like an Act of God to me, and good luck to the bank in proving it wasn't.
A friend of mine was once the 'victim' of a software glitch involving the company's time clock. He normally worked 30 hours per week but one week the time clock said that he clocked in on a Wednesday and didn't clock out again - at all that week. The automated system credited him with, and paid him for, over 90 hours that week.
He said nothing and the company never caught it.
Security tech here; regarding ADT.
A battery costs about AUD$15 to $40 depending on supplier and quantity. It's reasonable to charge $40-60 for one, although there are stores that charge $40 retail so it's not good to go above that. It's the type of job you'll spend more time parking and organising keys for than actually doing. I might be in and out in 10 minutes, but I'll charge you the half hour of my day that it takes. On the plus side, If I'm doing 5 to 10 of them I would only charge for an hour or two.
As for the system being too old, it's annoying but it happens. We had some techs who *couldn't* be sent to the older systems, because they don't have the tools or experience to work on them - I had a windows 7 laptop with an old style serial port (USB serial wouldn't work), and a (heavily modded) Windows NT dual boot just to deal with some of our older systems. This type of problem should be noticed by the Despatch team before they select which tech to send on the job, and if you can walk out in 5 minutes without fixing anything, the accounts team should read the notes and not charge the job.
We (daughter & I + 5 grandkids, all boys age 7-17) stopped at the taco truck for lunch. Ordered 4 carnitas tacos a piece @ $2.00 each. Thats 28 tacos & should be $56.00 + tax. We got our food, I held up my debit card to the gal & she walked away! I waited. And waited. And waited! We could hear them chatting in the back but after several long minutes she never came back! So we left! Thanks for the free food! 👍😁
3:50 That's how they make money, Simon; charge random people up at butt for random items *hoping* they don't care enough to change it
Simon: "How could someone not notice being overcharged for bread?"
Also Simon: "It took me years to notice I wasn't getting 50% discounts"
Got a bill for $0.00 great. Bug I kept getting it then threaded with more bills. I had to write a check for $0.00 they would not take cash, and I didn't give it, technically.
Back when I worked as a cashier at a military commissary, one of our customers came to the store with a receipt showing that she'd paid $78.78 for a jar of hot fudge topping that should have been 78 cents. It was easy to see what happened - the person entering the prices into the computer stuttered on the keys. I once mistakenly rang up some cans of cat food as 50-pound bags of dog food, which resulted in a charge of more than $200.
There was a story from about 10 years ago about a petrol station in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK which, during a row about fuel pricing, in which a litre of fuel was being sold at 33p! Cue long queues as locals got to hear about the cheap petrol! However, it turned out that the price was a mistake, as the wrong price had been entered! As soon as the error was reported to the petrol station management, it was halted.
Right before my son was born we were shopping on walmarts website, looking for a play pen, or portable crib. They posted one for $2.00 so we bought two. Later that day it was reposted at $200.00. Can't beat that!
😂😅🤣 I pissed myself laughing with you in this vid. You have such a wicked sense of humour & quick wit. Loved this channel from the get go & has become my favourite channel of the Whistler Co. 👊🤘
Well thanks :)
2 years ago, our monthly water bill came through as (South African) R330 633 (About $22 400). Our bill is usually about R600, so this was about 550 months, all charged in one bill. Long story short, it took us 11 months to sort out, during which they threatened to take our house to cover the bill (paid off and worh R1.2m, about $80 000), even though they admitted they had not actually taken a water reading from the meter in 6+ years! In the end, we got the account written off, R3600 credit and a new water meter at their expense, so we could try again.
We now take a photo of the reading monthly and take it to them, to work out the bill. We are also down to average R450 a month and they still have not come out to check!
I used to work in customer service for EE. For quote a while, every single customer would, on their third bill, be charged £51.95 for 'Time charge normal weekday fulfilment'. Nobody in the call center had any idea what this meant. We weren't told to just credit it, but we were told to credit any unusual item if there was no ticket about it. Which there never was, because it was a bug.
That bug was eventually fixed, but then people started randomly getting charged £114 for I can't remember what that one was called.
We'd regularly get people complaining that their bills were too high, and more often than not it turned out that the charged were legitimate because premium rate numbers are evil. One of the other agents had a guy with a bill of over £9,000 (insert DragonBall Z joke) for what appeared to be a sex chat line. Another got a call from some sort of Arabian oil sheik with a bill for over £12,000 in international calls, and he paid that without complaint as if it was just normal.
I know a guy who bought a $2.50 sandwich, but they somehow accidentally charged him $250. He noticed it on his VISA statement and went back to sort it out. They apologized, and attempted to refund the sandwich, but screwed up again and and instead charged him a further $250.
lol epic.
Amazon almost gave me a $1500 TV. I let it go for a while thinking they would figure it out, but they never did. 3 months later, I called them and told them about it. My conscience was beating the crap out of me the whole time.
Most memorable one is mispriced shot glasses. Big chain liquor store put 2 flats of 100 shot glasses on clearance but blundered and listed it as $0.10 instead of $1.00 each. I bought 10 and kindly pointed out the obvious mistake to the clerk, who then proceeded to try and charge me the $1/ea. I pointed that WI laws state you have to give it for the cheaper price and he was only losing $9 on my purchase. He still acted angry that I wouldn't let him charge the higher price, and I told him I'd just buy all 200 (cuz for me it'd be $20, big deal); he stared at me like I was joking as he was scanning some other goods, and I told him 1 sec while I grab a soda.....
Came back with both flats and said I was going to purchase these. The guy has always given me 'that look' ever since whenever I shop there. lol
In my state, Connecitcut, we have a Law, where if a consumer commodity (basicly food and household items) scans at a higher price then the sign says, you are entitled to 1 of those items for free, up to a value of $20.00. And the stores have to put signs up informing the shoppers of this. I think this should be the law everywhere. It definstely makes the stores do a much better job at pricing and signage (I was working in retail when this was enacted, and in the first few weeks my store hired 5 new full time employees that there entire job was checking signage to what the items scanned at and fixxing any errors. Theoretically the store should only give out 1 item for free, they should then IMMIDATELY fix the problem. But that only happens when there is enough staff on hand to be able to change the signs.
Oh man, I use those discount cards as much as possible. It’s the same when I order food online. I was a cashier in my much younger days so I go over my receipts every time. Simon, you crack me up on this channel. I love all of your channels but I giggle 🤭 every episode of this one. Carry on. 👍🏻. Edit: I worked in telecommunications for nearly 20yrs. I won’t say which one, but the horror stories of stupidity I’ve heard would fill volumes of books. It’s stunning.
I always check that the specials are charged correctly. More than once I've gotten to the till and they haven't changed the prices. Another thing I do is, if something is labeled on special I take a photo of the tag on the shelf. This stops another practice I've encountered. It comes up at full price at the till and when you point this out, they send someone to go look to see if the price is right, they remove the tag, claiming it isn't on special anymore and that there was no tag, or that there is a tag, but it was for a different product or brand.
Which also brings me to another issue. Putting the tag for the wrong brand under something that is not on sale. Or if it is something like shampoos, they put it under the conditioners instead. So you land up getting the wrong item. This causes issues big time.
My local Walmart is inordinately fond of doing those.
I don't go there anymore.
I had a business forty years ago that usually deposited about 3 thousand dollars a month in my local bank. (way before checking your balance online was a thing). I was shocked to get a monthly statement with one deposit of over 10 grand! I called the bank and told them there was an error, and if somebody was missing ten grand I knew where it was. They took the info, thanked me, but the money remained in the account the next month. I called them again, and said the least they could do was when they finally figure out where it goes, leave me the interest that accrued. It took four months (and more calls) before the money was out of my account, and yes, they left me the bit of interest. No flowers though.
My mother just got charged double for Cox's tv last month do to a computer flaw on their side and they still show she didn't pay so charged 2xs as much and still shut off her tv. And all they say "it's only $500, nothing we can do anyway it's our computers. Just ask the bank for a loan. Have a good day and thank you for choosing Cox's bye." It's Nov. And still trying to fix it.
a string with a weight on one end, and a cable saw on the other. see those sneakers hanging from the telephone lines? you get the idea.
Seriously, on a brighter note, if you live in the US, sue them in small claims court for whatever the bill is, and have the judge order them to apply your judgment to the open bill, AND CORRECT YOUR MOTHER'S CREDIT REPORTS!
This is number one on my Top10 Business Blaze episodes
Great Dan Quayle thumbnail.
(Remember when misspelling a vegetable was enough to disqualify one from elected federal office in the U.S.?)
My story related to this video is that one time when I was in college, my local grocery store’s cash register system went down. This was back before Internet. The cashier, who was the store manager, told me he could only do cash transactions, and he’d have to guess on the prices for everything as he rang me up on a calculator. He told me to say something if I thought he was charging too much. He made up a price for each item, and those made-up prices were like 10-25% of the actual price. $40 of groceries came to like $8 and change. He looked at me, winked, and said, "How about $5?" I said sure! I only wish I had bought more groceries - and asked if he wanted to go grab a drink sometime. I swear he was flirting. I was too happy about my grocery discount to realize that he was flirting, though.
You should do a video on how this bald British expat on the internet named Simon Whistler managed to start his own little mini-empire of UA-cam channels and how he manages to do so many of them simultaneously.
It's magic.
Can't spell potato tho
As soon as they flashed "the Harry Potter ones" I understood what terraced houses are lol!
I love this channel! It's very informal and Simon's character and personality really shines through!!! Love it. Keep up the great work!! ❤
Thanks :). Glad you're enjoying it!
My insurance company accidentally charged my account $21,500 for my monthly premium instead of $215 a few months back. They profusely apologized and called my bank for me and got any overdraft fees waived and everything. It did scare the shit out of my receiving that robo text message notification from my bank stating “a charge of $21,500 has been withdrawn from your account”.
There was a case recently about a kid who got arrested on trying that DVD trick but with PS4. The scam succeeded the first time, but he got arrested when he tried to do it again.
here in New York the little moron probably would have gotten arrested when he tried to return it for a refund. "Hmmm, my COMPUTER says this was stolen, and here is the video. Smile, you're on UNcandid camera, dufus!"
Thank you Danny for the great script!
Yeah here in Stevenage while it's not quite the Slum town Lewis Hamilton would have you think it's definately not Baller territory, about 80% of the shops are now bargin orientated and we lost both M&S and Waitrose (only slightly posher) due to lack of custom, it also doesn't suprise me Asda will only give you £2.
it sounds to me based on the story that the grandma might have been being taken care of by the daughter, early dementia kind of thing. would explain why she's checking her mom's receipts and why grandma might have missed it.
Love your French, Simon. It's called boo-y-gue, the telecom company ^^
Video 22 Danny is back, as he always does. Figured the last few videos where recorded a while before the ones with Danny. Only the second rimshot ever! Danny is making Simon laugh again 😍
I got a story for this one! You know how magazines sometimes come with small novelties that are collected separately? Back when I worked at Woolies, those items would ring up for a single penny till you scanned through the magazine, at which point the single cent charge would be deducted. One time there were these plush dogs, and someone collected the lot thinking that they were a completely separate item on sale instead of a package deal that they were with the magazine. For whatever reason, the cashier operating the till was completely oblivious to this fact. I do not remember the amount, but the whole lot had to have sold for just under a dollar and no one was the wiser for weeks afterward. Turns out this is a fairly regular occurrence due to how repetitive and quick employees are expected to be at Woolworths. With such monotonous job, it is pretty easy to miss mistakes when you are under pressure to get every little thing done ASAP.
Another one from my time at Woolies; I once had a woman come through with a moderate amount of groceries. The final price was well into the triple digit dollar amount. Going through the bag, we found several ounces of lunchmeat had a decimal in the wrong place and was worth ten times than what it should have been worth.
Idc how old you are or who you are, get the free bonus card 😂
Million billion? Are you messing with us? Lol great video
beats trying to slide "buzzillion" by us. lol
It would technically be a quadrillion. But people don't tend to know the numbers after trillion :)
Tip: if you get montly charged for something you didn't asked to, just go to the bank and block THAT account ... it's much quicker than sending messages to that company (they will ignore them anyway).
I'm with Simon. If I found a ton of money I'd walk the eff away because that money would definitely come with a side of murder!
I enjoy all of your content. Thanks for creating it. I definitely have at least one of your channels playing on a daily basis when I am doing something.
When I was a kid I went to the store with my parents to buy food for a big family camping trip, they found some huge coolers, and put everything in them in the store to make sure everything that they were bringing would fit in the coolers. Well when they went through the checkout the cashier forgot to scan the coolers, and they didn't notice tell they were on the trip
I once got an accidental deposit into my newly opened bank account that I knew was not mine, as the balance on the ATM claimed that I suddenly had some $1000, overnight. I withdrew a large amount of it and waited to see how long a "call" would take. In a few days a very nervously but polite bank representative called and asked if I could bring the money back for redeposit, as they had made a mistake, giving me an ATM card with my name, but a local company's account number. I gave it back and switched banks.
I didnt even know they had the self checkout thingy 10 years ago 😂
Walmart had self checkout in 2008, idk about before that because thats the first time i stepped foot in a walmart.
It was more common in the EU (or Europe and the UK for the brexit fans) back 20 years ago.
For sure, I worked in a store that had them around 2004.
We had them in some stores in Pittsburgh 20 years ago.
Maybe cause I'm Asian, but since I was a kid, I always estimated how much the groceries would cost before checking out and seeing how well it would match. If it didn't I would automatically check the receipt
I am not Asian but i generally know how much things cost, so if the price seems to high or to low i check recipe. Several times i spotted errors, surprisingly most were in my favor and being a honest person would inform the cashier about them to correct, i do not leave the que before i verify, if i suspect something is wrong, because if you do they won't correct any errors that are in theire favor (is the law in my country and you need to do a scene to management and they can just say no)