<div dir="ltr">When one lifts an item in a supermarket to buy it but decides to put it<div>back before getting to the cashier - can one really put it back on the shelf? Why isnt</div><div>one halachically buiying it by picking it up even without paying?</div>
<div><br></div><div>The closest I found was a teshuva of R. Zilberstein that if one leaves groceries in</div><div>a supermarket to be delivered and they get stolen before delivery that the loss is the one</div><div>who bought them since he made a kinyan meshichah.</div>
<div>The only question is whether the store owner is a shomer chinam or a shomer sachar (or perhaps not even a shomer chinam)</div><div>He paskens that in a modern supermarket the supermarket is a shomer sachar.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Nevertheless the assumption is that it belongs to the customer because he picked it up or</div><div>pulled and it doesnt matter whether that was before or after payment<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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