Reply To: Maybe I Should Compensate The Store Owner…?

We try our hardest to be honest in buisness thus; the store owner would not sell somone something on the tzad it would be harmful, same thing by the bank one would not owe the thief because it would not have been the thiefs money.

I understand that. But just because the store would not have pushed the item doesn’t mean that I might not owe them for a lost sale. The worker has the authorization to advise a customer on a sale. I do not.

did the right thing

I have no doubt that I did the right thing. But sometimes you incur expenses even when you do the right thing. *That’s* the basis of my question — not whether I was right or wrong (I’m pretty sure I was right), but whether in doing so, I owe money (much as one who takes damages another’s property while in the course of saving a life, if that’s indeed the halacha).

The Wolf