Went to a departmental store named MORE (formerly TRINETHRA) at Mylapore (cutchery road) to buy some items. I took two packets of milk, a bunch of coriander leaves and a packet of mushrooms. Then at the cash counter they gave me the bill for the three items. I was shocked to see the price of the coriander leaf bunch as Rs. 20. Because it’s price was written as only Rs. 3 in the rack . I immediately showed the bill to the guy at the counter and asked him why it was printed wrongly.
Without saying anything he gave me the balance amount of rs. 17. But i scolded him as this was not the first time the wrong billing (i can say fraud billing) happened in a departmental store. The guy didn’t speak a word. They have been doing such things for a long time. This time i wanted to be serious and i would like to make others aware of such fraud billing at many departmental stores. These things are still happening in spencer’s, big bazaar and reliance fresh also.so whenever you go to a departmental store, have a tendency to check your bills and mrp of the items.
If you can’t do this for all the items when you have a long list, do check at least for the major items!and don’t believe the store guys who blame the billing machines. Because even the billing machine can be manipulated purposely to make such billing.so please do check the bill before leaving!it is our hard earned money!with public interest.
S. Mohan