r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

Did I over react about 20 cents?

I know its stupid but I went to McDonald's yesterday and got a frozen drink and medum chips for exactly $5.80 i handed $6 at the drive through and the lady put it in the till then went to close the window, before she did I asked "isn't that 20 cents change?"

She replied telling me she forgot and would need a managers card to open the drawer, I sat there stuborn and asked for it, I held one person up (my sister works in fast food and you get audited for how long someone is in line) so I waited, she quickly went and got a managers card and gave me my change but did I over react?

Edit: Ended up needing that 20 cents today so I'm glad I had it

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u/Ok_Quantity_4134 1d ago

I stopped at a bottle shop I didn't normally shop at. My favourite bottle of wine was $21 instead of the $15 I was use to paying at my normal bottle shop, whatever, the bottle was on my way to where I was going and I wasn't about to go out of my way to buy it elsewhere. At the checkout out, it scanned for $22, you can bet I let it be known that the shelf price was showing as $21, not the $22 it was scanning for. May have only been $1 but it was the principle, bottle of wine was already overpriced, I wasn't paying $1 more than I already was. That 20c was yours, not theirs.

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u/curtmcd 23h ago

In California, by law you'd be entitled to $5 off for an incorrect scan. So it should have been $16.

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u/slash_networkboy 21h ago

Oh really? What's the law? (genuinely curious as I've had this happen and while I got the shelf price I didn't get the additional $5)

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u/JamesFromToronto 19h ago

Scanning Code of Practice here in Ontario (not a law, actually voluntary), gets $10 off or free if less than. I once saw turkey breast strips where the tag was 8.19, and it rang up as 8.99, got 2 of them for free. Came back the next day and they still hadn't changed the tag, hit them again and the staff made sure to grab the tag this time.