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Finding a little cash is one thing, but unexpectedly finding thousands of dollars is another story.

Today, we’ll meet a grocery store supervisor who faced that exact situation right as she was getting ready to leave for the night.

A cashier handed her a bank envelope that had been sitting near the register for about an hour.

At first, she expected a couple hundred dollars, but the receipt inside showed a $2,500 withdrawal and the envelope still held around $2,000.

With no safe way to know who the money belonged to, the staff locked it up overnight and contacted the bank the next morning.

Read on to see what you would’ve done in this situation.

My Cashier found $2000 on her Register as I was about to Leave

I’m a CSR in a grocery store, so I’m the one in charge of making sure the Front End is clean and my cashiers/baggers are doing their jobs.

One day, I’m working desk. It’s around the end of my shift. I finished putting away the tills, counting lottery, getting everything ready for the desk person in the morning, etc. It’s not very busy.

I’m saying my goodnights once everything is done, and one of my last two cashiers says, “Hey, I found this on the end of my register a little while ago, and I thought I should give it to you.”

Before she left, a cashier brought her a bank envelope.

Right away, I recognize the little envelope. It’s obviously from a bank. I expect maybe one or two hundred bucks inside.

Normally, we would keep it in our safe overnight and wait for someone to claim it.

I look inside, and there’s obviously way more than that in the envelope. I look over at my co-supervisor, who was in charge of closing the last two hours.

There’s a lot more money than she expected.

I make an “ooph” sound, and she asks me how much is in the envelope.

Inside, there’s a cashier’s receipt. It’s marked for a $2,500 withdrawal. I tell her this, and I go behind the desk to actually count the money using our bill counter.

There’s more like $2,000. She probably already spent some of it on groceries and other errands.

At this time of night, she was unsure what to do.

Next, I yell at my cashier for waiting so long to tell me.

We call our loss and prevention guy, who is asleep. He usually starts at 6 AM.

I debate calling the person’s name on the cashier’s receipt, but before making any other actions, I call up the MOD. I tell him why I need him, but in usual manager-like fashion, he takes his sweet time.

Once he finally gets to the front end, I ask my MOD if I should call her. We decide it’s a terrible idea, as if I call the wrong person, the money could go to the wrong place.

Apparently, the managers took the money to the bank.

Instead, we decide to call the bank.

Problem is, it’s almost 10 PM at this point. There’s no way they’re open. So, instead, I have to leave it in the safe for the supervisor and desk people in the morning. I leave a note for them, a long note, telling them the steps we took and what we think they should do.

In the morning, I call the store and ask what they did.

In the end, they called the bank. The Assistant Manager drove the envelope to the bank and placed it in their hands. I don’t know if the customer ever got her money, but I do know my co-workers and I never got in trouble.

Was quite a night.

Oh no! The woman was probably worried sick about where she left it.

Let’s check out if the folks over at Reddit have ever encountered something similar.

That’s a lot of money to just leave.

Here’s someone who works at a bank.

Yes, it would.

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Hopefully, they did.

This is one of those situations where everyone seemed to do the right thing.

Finding that much cash could’ve turned into a huge mess if they had handed it to the wrong person.

Instead, they kept it secure and turned it over to the bank the next morning.

With any luck, the woman got every dollar back, and everyone lived happily ever after.