Man has brilliant exchange with Tesco after being given too much change

Not today, Tesco.
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Man has brilliant exchange with Tesco after being given too much change
This one ended abruptly. Credit: Getty Images/twitter/@joshknigh98/@tesco/mashable composite

LONDON -- There are few things in this world better than purchasing something and being given too much change.

Josh Knight from Bristol, UK, was so pleased with his recent Jaffa Cake purchase (which resulted in one of Tesco's self service machines technically paying him for the cakes) that he decided to tweet about it.


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Tesco responded less than 20 minutes later.

Knight, it seemed, enjoyed the cakes.

After Tesco's follow-up question, though, things took an unexpected turn.


From the looks of it, Tesco decided to leave that one there.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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