I’ve just had an experience at Woolworths that has left me with a somewhat ripped-off feeling.
I paid for my goods through the self-help checkout and asked the machine for twenty dollars cash. When the receipt and the money came out, instead of twenty I received a fifty. I showed the girl and then had to wait for ten minutes for someone to come over and check the tins in the machine. They then took back the fifty and handed me a twenty.
If Woolworths make a mistake like that they should have to forfeit the thirty dollars. Why should the shopper have to waste their time to help Woolworths fix their problems? It may well be that I also saved them more money by pointing out the problem so that they could fix it before anyone else used that automatic checkout. If Woolworths are going to have a banking facility they have to be responsible and take the rough with the smooth.
If Woolworths aren’t going to take responsibility for their mistakes (as in it costing them something) then they will never learn and simultaneously put people off. They are quite happy to pay professionals to come in and help them solve problems but because you are a lowly shopper, to hell with you. You just don’t count. It seems that the customer is always considered the end of the chain. A necessary inconvenience.
I think they ought to have at least thanked you or offered you a voucher or something. I reckon you ought to post your experience on their FB page. They might offer you something to placate you.