From: "Tim" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: C&P at supermarkets
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:36:19 +0000 (UTC)

> > "Oscar the Cat" wrote
> >> When I once inserted the card into the machine myself,
> >> the cashier got all flustered and grabbed my card, and they
> >> swiped it in her own EPOS then asked me to enter the PIN.
> >> I should have refused, asked for my card back and then
> >> walked out the shop with a trolly full of already scanned goods.
> >
> "Tim" wrote:
> > Eh?  You're saying you should have left
> > with the goods, but without paying???
>
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
> Why not?  He has bought them, after all.
> This has created a debt which he has every intention
> of settling in due course.  What's the problem?

Practically, the security staff of the door?   ;-)

Technically, though - he has "offered to buy",
but has the supermarket "accepted" the
deal before payment has been made?   :-(