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Always Check Your Receipts!

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The other day, I stopped in a convenience store (Fas-Start, on Hwy 21 in Bryan, TX...just for your information) to pick up some stuff. I payed for it with my debit card, using the 'credit' option. I feel that it is more secure that way, because anyone can memorize a 4-digit code, but it's a whole different thing to successfully forge a signature.

To make a long story short, the total of my purchase was somewhere around $6.50 cents (give or take a few cents). The cashier told me the amount, I gave him my card, signed the ticket, and left.

The next day I signed in to my online checking account, to see what my current balance was. I was a bit surprised to find that the idiot had rounded my purchase up to an even $7.00 and ran it.

Now, that may not seem like a huge amount to have stolen, but for those who are snowflakers, you would understand why it sucks so much: it adds up.

So let's look at it this way: suppose the thieving scumbags did that to everyone who made a credit purchase (and I assume that they do it quite frequently). Even .50 each time, for only 10 customers...that's $5.00. They are helping themselves to extra bits of change. MY change. And, since they are dishonest, I have no problem sharing the location of the store in this post, to help my fellow readers and friends keep from having their hard-earned money stolen by lowlife jerks.

The moral of this story? If you feel a bit sickened by stuff like this, you can always try fresh air as a remedy, but I doubt it will help. A better idea is to always check your receipts in the store. I didn't do this. If there had been a discrepancy, I could have asked them immediately to rectify the situation. Since I did not do this, I'm out of luck. I can guarantee that I won't be using them again, and I will most certainly tell people not to use them.

Note: I'm not the only one that has had trouble with this store, for the record.