1-Year-Old Daughter Steals Sweet, Mom Tells Store, Store Still Bans Mom

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    Font - r/tifu + Join u/eyekona · 1d 1 26 e 36 3 37 47 TIFU by getting banned from the supermarket for trying to be nice M I took my 1yo daughter to the supermarket to buy some groceries like I normally do. My daughter was in a stroller where she can sit and see everything around her. At the checkout counter she grabbed one of the sweets on display and played with it, while I was busy bagging my stuff (they don't do it for you in Germany and you have to be fast) and so I didn't notice her having
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    Font - I went back to the register and told the cashier what had happened. She told me to wait and said something over the phone and then told me to be patient, someone will be here in a moment. She then proceded to check out another person and then two security guards came. They checked every item in my bags and looked if it was on the receipt. I asked them what was going on and that I just want to pay for the sweet, my daughter accidentally took. But they had non of it, proceded to check every
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    Font - Now I am banned from shopping in the only supermarket in walking distance. I don't have a car (which is normal in Germany) and now I have to take the bus (expensive!!!) to buy groceries or only go shopping, when my husband is home and can take care of our daughter so I can use my bike. And only because I wanted to be nice. The sweet was 59ct and will now cost me invaluable together time with my husband or around 60€ a month for public transportation tickets. I should have just left when n
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    Font - -2nd edit- I'm a shy person. I won't complain on the phone or in person, just not a thing I do. And honestly, I'm not sure I want to shop there again. But the other possibilities are very inconvenient for me. I'm going to post some reviews on their website and on social media and see what happens. If they apologize and lift the ban, that would be great news for me. Thank you for your kind words, ideas and compassion. :) -3rd edit- Wow, I was away for an hour or two and this blew up quickl
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    Font - I made this post because I was so angry at myself for going back. I thought they were in the right and I was stupid. And I was really embarrassed about what they did in front of a lot of people I know. I live in this village that was swallowed by the city next to it. It is kind of a subculture and it is not that everybody knows everybody, but everybody has seen everybody and knows someone who knows them. Gossip is a really big deal here and they did search my grocery bags in front of all
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    Font - When the first answers came, they were all like - use the media, use newspapers and social media and write reviews, tell us the shop and we flame them, and I thought I would, but then came the other answers that said I will be the asshole if I do this before talking to the manager. So today in the morning my husband called the store, with me sitting next to him in case he needs me. We had a lady on the line who of course (it's Germany) can't have my husband call for me, she needs to talk
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    Font - -last edit- It is now 8h later and we had given up all hope that he would call back and were about to call again, when at last he did. I told him I got banned from the store and would like to talk with him about the incident. First he was like this old man bullshit "das wird schon alles seine Richtigkeit haben" -> if they banned you, then there has to be a reason you were banned and everything is in order, and he was about to politely excuse himself and end the call - and normally I would
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    Font - He agreed and I told him in short sentences what had happened, as I heard that he was stressed and in a hurry to end this call. I was prepared to argue my case and even threaten him with some poor reviews if necessary, but it wasn't. He was like: "There must have been a misunderstanding, what was your name again? Ok found you, thank you for calling, I have removed you from the banned list, feel free to come back any time, sry for the misunderstanding, everything else ok? Have a nice day.

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