The cashier may have realised straight away and have the money waiting for you, but there again she was pretty distracted and she did have a lot of customers to serve. Is £2.70 really worth making a fuss over? I suppose it depends how flush you are financially, but I think you only get flush if you are financially aware - you know what they say - look after the pennies. To me, when I’ve gone around the store choosing the promotional items to save a couple of quid here and there, £2.70 is worth chasing up. It’s my money after all. I’d like to hear other people’s thoughts on this.

I’m talking about my double buggy here, but some stores aren’t even well equipped to deal with the most compact of single pushchairs. Popping to the supermarket for a few groceries for the evening meal can quickly turn into a full on obstacle course. What with goods trolleys obstructing aisles, poorly placed bargain buckets and merchandising material, tills where you quite literally have to squeeze through the gaps and that’s before we’ve even got to other customers who leave their trolleys in one aisle while they wander off to another. Then, when I’ve finally managed to make it around the shop and have squeezed the pram through the gap between the tills to pay I find that the automatic doors won’t open and once I’ve negotiated them I then find I’m faced with yet another obstacle course to manoeuvre around - all the trolleys abandoned at the entrance. So, I suppose what I’m saying is that other shoppers should have a little more consideration and the shops should plan their layout carefully so as not to alienate a large proportion of their customers. And for my part, well, I’m not crazy - I’ll keep the pushchair well away from the busy Saturday shopping crowds.