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>In article <1993Jan8.235403.9630@tellab5.tellabs.com> chrz@tellabs.com (Peter Chrzanowski) writes:
>
>>There's no debt because they're not
>>your Chee-tos yet.  (BTW if you ate them before paying you
>>have committed retail theft, for which you may be prosecuted).
>
In article <1993Jan9.112353.7411@doug.cae.wisc.edu> kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
>Actually, I've heard that it's perfectly legal to go into a store and do
>something like this.  I go into PDQ's all the time and fill up a cup of pop
>and start drinking it long before I pay for it...  It becomes a crime the
>minute you walk out the door without having paid.  (Of course, the store
>has a right to demand payment _immediately_ and kick you out as soon as
>you've done so... no doubt they would, if you went to a store and started
>eating bag after bag of Chee-tos! :-) )

   You can go into a store and eat pretty much anything you
   want...as long as you don't try to leave without paying or
   otherwise defraud the store.  

   The original post was about doing this with only a $100 bill on
   you and the store has insufficient change.

   This is a touchy issue.  If they can convince a court you
   INTENDED to offer a bill larger than their change amount, you can
   be charged.  Same is true of gas stations, etc. etc.  If you take
   goods, it is YOUR problem to make payment arrangements agreeable
   to the store unless you like the inside of jails.