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Just looked at my online bank statement and noticed 2 days ago a Visa charge of £56.10 from my local Co-Op. I am certain I have never spent that much in there in one go - just bread, paper sort of stuff.

Is there a way of challenging it?

Do you have a receipt?

Did you get cashback?

No receipt, no cashback.

The cashier pocketed the cashback then, methinks

Without a receipt you have little of no chance. No Proof.

I'd pop to the shop and see if they can help.

Interesting that as I notice more and more shops now you have to ask for a receipt (Sainsburys for example) whereas previously you were just automatically given one.

I would go into the shop and kick off, they will be able to work back through the system to find the transaction which will state whether or not cashback was involved - do co-op like many make you sign a receipt to say you have been given cashback and acknowledge receipt?

If nothing else if the staff member is up to no good will flag it up and ensure they keep an eye on them.

If you know the time of the transaction then they can check the cameras.

What will that prove? It'll be his word against the cashier.

I don't think the cashier has done anything wrong - apart from hitting a wrong digit or something.

I've just talked to them and they are checking their end, but without a receipt they reckon there's not much they can do

Video evidence would mean it's his word against the cashier's?  ;D

It's happened to me before, although in a slightly different way. I got my money back after they watched the video to see what had been purchased.

With in store cameras and a computerised till? I imagine they should be able to do something.

Dunno call me a fantasist and a luddite, but if everyone carried cash, this sort of thing wouldn't happen.

Yeah, I feel short changed by it all.

Got to admit I rarely carry cash these days. There's very little reason to. Can even pay for pre-match beers in The Merlin by card.

The only cash transaction I miss is betting. Nothing better than picking up a proper wedge of folding from the bookies.

But I even do that online now.

Just go an nick £50 worth of stuff. Sorted.

Any updates? I'm sat here constantly refreshing desperate to know if this gets resolved.

God I hate standing behind people like you in pubs! What is even more frustrating is students habits of insisting on buying their own drinks separately now being exacerbated by then each insisting on paying by card!

I meant to say - I assume you actually went into the shop on the day that the dodgy transaction occurred - its not just a scam?

It's quicker than paying cash and waiting for change

This.

Completely absurd to say they cannot trace if you can specify the date and approx time.

Good luck to you when the complete banking system goes down. And it will. I always keep a couple of hundred cash in the house for that eventuality. I wont be looking longingly in M&S window flicking my useless piece of plastic. I will however get mugged for my loaf of bread when I come out of there though. But i'll still be feeling smug. Bruised but smug ;)

You go to M&S for a loaf of bread? You flash fuck

A similar thing happened to me some years ago at a Diy store . I spoke to my bank and it turned out that for some reason I had paid for the following customers goods as well . So I suggest you contact yur bank

Using a card in a pub is just wrong and should only happen in the gravest of emergencies.  I wonder if Cameron paid for Xi's pint of Greene King IPA by card.....sort of chap who would.

I know right?!

FTR, I only go to M&S for my fettuccini, my brioche and my guava!

The rest of my shop I'll slum getting it from Ocado.

If you tap your card (if they have a reader) then it's quicker than anything, even the right money cash. No receipt printing, nothing. Thirty quid limit also a bonus now.

Yup did this morning, problem is there is an M&S food 20 yards from the bottom of the drive. The next nearest is a Waitrose which if anything is dearer. Nearest Supermarket is an Asda about 2 miles away, and frankly you couldn't pay me enough to go in there. So M&S it is.

Agreed!! Our local now takes cards and offers cash back - excuse for a pint and avoid having to walk into town - but only time I ever use my card in such circumstances!

I thought this thread was going to be about Auderey's mistaken contribution to operation yewtree

Don't worry Audrey will fix that..