Mich’s Journeys

We were doing our usual weekly grocery last Sunday. Normally we go to Fairprice since we get rebates and rewards via linkpoints but we were late in going out that we ended up doing the grocery at Cold Storage instead (they close later than Fairprice). I bought just some essentials and food that we were going to eat for the next 3-4 days, so I paid at the counter and left with the bags. It wasn’t until we reached home and I was storing the groceries that I noticed that a bag was missing and that bag contained all the food. We tried calling the store to check for the bag but it was already closed, we did shop near closing time. So I was really pissed that I left the bag and had no choice but to try and go back the next day to see if the items were still there.

I was only able to go back to the grocery after E’s playgym class in the afternoon and really I wasn’t expecting that the bag would still be there. I think I was more or less resigned that I wasted about $20 worth of food by forgetting that bag. So when I got to the grocery I approached this guy to ask about the bag and he went to a couple of the cashiers to ask and he was told to check the logbook (it was a logbook of things that got left behind, it would seem that it is a common occurrence :p) and he got back to me to check with me if the items listed on the book were the items that I left. After confirming the items, he went to get similar items off the shelves to give to me, it turns out the actual items that I left were put back on the shelf so whatever is of the equivalent price would be the ones given back, most of the items that he did give me were priced higher than the items I bought. He asked to see my receipt just to note on it that I had already taken the items and that was it. Now I don’t know if this is the way that supermarkets handle things like this, this was the first time that it happened to me but I was pleasantly surprised at the procedure they had. It was simple and easy for both parties. And is it bad for me to think that if that were to happen to me in Manila that I would never have been able to retrieve the left items?