[lima eel]

Just before ramble, then breifly mentioned about paying for things if you break something in a shop. It got me thinking and i used to work in a supermarket and there would be occasional jars of things that would broken by customers without charge, one time someone smashed a whole box of champagne (6 bottles) over £100, we didn't charge them. Has anyone ever had to pay for something they've broken in a shop?, or is the 'break it, pay for it' rule a myth?

[Vivienne]

I broke candles in Woolworths, and they didn't make me pay at all.

[MK Chris]

It depends.. if it's a big business, a breakage of even £100 is pocket money for them. If it's a small local shop, I would want to pay even if they didn't ask me to.

[TIAL]

I think you should pay for breakages regardless of the size of the company. After all, they can't sell it any more so would suffer the consequences of someone else's wrongdoing. Bigger companies might not necessarily need it but I don't think there should be double standards.

[S4B]

People rarely break books but I would like to make the people pay who put chewing gum inside books or rip off the barcodes thinking they're the security tags.

[tom greeni]

A good example of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulupTy1O ... re=related