I paid for a stranger’s food shop by mistake – should I have asked for it back?

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The dilemma

It happened so quickly I’m still not sure how. I was at the self-checkout after work, juggling my shopping bags and phone, when I somehow tapped my card on the wrong reader.

The woman next to me was just paying for her bits, and my card beeped instead. The screen flashed “Approved” and before I’d even processed what had happened, she lo