Money and Awareness

As I prepare to transition into retirement (in a couple of years) I've been looking at my financial situation.  The economy is bad but my job pays well and I'm secure now that I'm in my thirty-fifth year. 

I've been using Quicken for years and have a pretty good idea where I'm at but decided to download an app for my Apple Ipod Touch that would keep track of purchases at stores.  It cost $0.99 so it was in my price range.  I entered my shopping list and when I shopped entered the prices.  When I got to checkout it was off by a couple bucks.  I figured I must have made a mistake so I didn't think much about it.

The next day I did some grocery shopping and the same thing.  This time when I got home I went over the list.  That is when I found the mistakes.  I bought some blood oranges but was charged for the higher priced oranges.  Then another product was different from the price on the shelf.  Hmmm.

Then I went to the other receipt and found another error, this on worth a couple bucks.

I've always assumed that with scanners things were spot on but not any more.  I plan to watch carefully and correct errors.  I wonder how much these kind of errors have costed me over the years? 

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