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“It’s real!”: Warning over new Kmart receipt scam

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Kmart customer has shared a worrying receipt scam that may have already affected thousands of shoppers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing the details on a popular Facebook page, shopper Amanda revealed how she had discovered the scam when she went to her local store to return some products.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After realising she’d left her receipt behind in a shopping trolley in the belief she wouldn’t need it, the Sydney mum used her internet banking statement to prove her purchases.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It wasn’t until a member of Kmart’s customer service team looked up her transaction that they made the discovery that someone had already returned all the items on her receipt.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s believed the scammer found Amanda’s discarded receipt and collected the items listed on the docket before returning the items at the Kmart service desk and asking for a refund.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Customer Service at Kmart are happy for me to share a nasty experience today,” Amanda wrote on the North Shore Mums (Sydney) Facebook page.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“On Thursday, I purchased a number of items, including five boxes of coat hangers at $10 a box.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“On the way out of the store, I showed the exit attendant my proof of purchase and threw the receipt into the trolley (where it stayed).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I realised I had no receipt when I returned today to bring back the coat hangers (my hubby bought same from IKEA) so went to customer service and showed the transaction on my internet banking - which they matched on their computer,” she continued.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Kmart refunds lady informed me that I had already returned all my purchases that day in the Bondi store.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Turns out, somebody picked up my receipt - walked around Kmart collecting the same items, and then took them for a refund!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s a real thing! She promised to share the store manager’s findings when they review the video of the Bondi store.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fellow shoppers were shocked by her story.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The amount of times I’ve accidentally left my receipt in a trolley or in a bin without even thinking,” one said. “Never again. That’s just shocking.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another said: “I always see people’s receipts in the bottom of trolleys. I wonder how many people have been scammed and never even knew?”</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Facebook</span></em></p>

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Disgust after customer finds gross instruction on burger receipt

<p>One man has been left feeling sick after discovering a gross instruction on his burger receipt.</p> <p>On June 17, Curtis Mays from New York visited the Bohemian Hall and beer Garden in Astoria, NYC.</p> <p>When the man had finished his chicken burger, he looked over the receipt and found that one ingredient he had not requested was added to his meal.</p> <p>Along with his cheddar cheese, mayo, toasted bread, caramelised onions and a side of onion rings, was a note to "add spit".</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img width="499" height="390" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7819262/1_499x390.jpg" alt="1 (156)"/></p> <p>“I ate my burger already, I felt like I was gonna throw up,” Curtis told <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://abc11.com/3615399/" target="_blank">ABC 11</a></strong></span>.</p> <p>“I asked her [the server], ‘Why would you do this?’ And she couldn’t explain it. She said she didn’t do it, so I was like ‘Who prints out the receipt?’ So she said, ‘I take it up there and print it myself.’ I said, ‘So you did it? Why are you lying about it?’ She just walked off,” he added.</p> <p>Curtis then immediately went to the manager to discuss the instruction to “add spit” that was found on his receipt.</p> <p>“He was saying, ‘How can we compensate you?’ I was like, ‘How can you compensate somebody for spitting on your food? I ate this already,’” Curtis said.</p> <p>The waitress was fired on the spot and Curtis received a full refund for his meal.</p> <p>The managed told the ABC that although the incident was “unacceptable”, it is “very unlikely” one of the chefs actually spat in the burger.</p> <p>What is your worst restaurant horror story? Let us know in the comments below. </p>

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