'Scammed in broad daylight': Aussie's kind supermarket act backfires

The incident left her "flabbergasted," but not everyone agrees that she was fleeced. What do you think?

An Aussie woman has taken to TikTok to vent about being "scammed in broad daylight" by another shopper in her local supermarket this week.

"So I was at the shops trying to buy some food, and the lady in front of me, bless her soul, couldn't afford to pay for food," Jess Jackson recalls in the clip, still clearly reeling from the incident. 

She says that an important part of the story is that the woman's "card didn't get declined."

Instead, she rifled through her wallet mumbling about what card to use and eventually told the cashier she needed to return some of the grocery items in her trolley as she couldn't afford them.

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"I got scammed"

"That's a bit sad, poor thing," Jess remembers thinking. "I look in her trolley and it's like milk, bread, fruits and veg - respectful things, it wasn't just sh*t."

So, feeling sorry for the woman, she pays for her food, as it "wasn't much."

The woman was very appreciative of the gesture, but what happened next left Jess "flabbergasted."

"I would not come on here or tell anyone if I had done a good deed, but that's not where it ends," she explained.

When she went to the cigarette counter on the way out, she noticed that the woman was also there and had just purchased "a carton of Winfield Blues" which would have cost her "over $400."

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Jess confronted her and the woman told her, "I'd rather go without food than smokes, you know what it's like," but Jess disagreed, saying, "I'd rather go without smokes all day every day before it came between me and basic survival."

She then says she saw the woman later in BWS with a bottle of wine.

"I got scammed," she concluded.

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"You did good"

In the comments, many assured Jess that she was a "good person" and condemned the other shopper for taking advantage of her.

"No way, that’s actually messed up! Sounds like it’s not her first rodeo," said one person.

"You are so well-meaning, what goes around comes around," wrote another.

And someone else said: "You might have got scammed, but lovey, what you did was a nice thing to do...regardless of her been a troll, you did good."

However, some were more sympathetic towards the other woman.

"She did say she'd rather smoke... it's sh*t, but it's on you," one user claimed.

"If you didn't see her buy smokes or grog, you'd still feel good about it," pointed out a second.

And someone else concluded: "To be fair, she didn’t say she didn’t have ANY money, you knew her card didn’t decline and you offered to pay."

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Originally published as 'Scammed in broad daylight': Aussie's kind supermarket act backfires