Samudera supermarket in Sihanoukville
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 11:57 am
Today, I bought a few bottles of Lion soda in the Samudera supermarket in Sihanoukville, actually 6 of them:
Unfortunately, while they were in my shopping basket, the top of one of these glass bottles broke off. I didn't drop it or anything. The bottle was actually still full of soda. I just put it back under the watchful eye of a member of their staff. While I was at the cashier, checking out, that same staff member followed me and whispered a few things to the cashier. When I checked my bill, the cashier had added the broken bottle to it. It was only $0.35, but still:
-- I asked the cashier: Look, I only have 5 bottles in my basket. Why do you charge for 6?
-- The cashier said: Yes, but you also broke one bottle.
-- So I said: The basket is over $40+, but I am not taking it with me. You can keep it.
Seriously, they should technically have given me the broken bottle of soda when I checked out. In that case, there would have really been 6 bottles of soda in my basket. I might just have paid for it. It was only $0.35 anyway. However, that is not what they did. They kept the broken bottle to themselves, and they did not tell me that they had charged for it. So, that amounts to either THEFT of $0.35 or else THEFT of a broken bottle.
So, I drove off to another supermarket, where I bought pretty much the same stuff again, this time, paying them the full $40+ during the checkout.
Unfortunately, while they were in my shopping basket, the top of one of these glass bottles broke off. I didn't drop it or anything. The bottle was actually still full of soda. I just put it back under the watchful eye of a member of their staff. While I was at the cashier, checking out, that same staff member followed me and whispered a few things to the cashier. When I checked my bill, the cashier had added the broken bottle to it. It was only $0.35, but still:
-- I asked the cashier: Look, I only have 5 bottles in my basket. Why do you charge for 6?
-- The cashier said: Yes, but you also broke one bottle.
-- So I said: The basket is over $40+, but I am not taking it with me. You can keep it.
Seriously, they should technically have given me the broken bottle of soda when I checked out. In that case, there would have really been 6 bottles of soda in my basket. I might just have paid for it. It was only $0.35 anyway. However, that is not what they did. They kept the broken bottle to themselves, and they did not tell me that they had charged for it. So, that amounts to either THEFT of $0.35 or else THEFT of a broken bottle.
So, I drove off to another supermarket, where I bought pretty much the same stuff again, this time, paying them the full $40+ during the checkout.