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Originally Posted by Sliver
How much are they trying to get from you? It seems like this may be a good opportunity to teach your daughter about consequences and allow her to work off some or all of the penalty (i.e. you pay the penalty; she pays you back). Depending on what they're trying to recover from you/her, this doesn't seem outrageous. I mean, Zellers is the victim here, not your daughter and in principle I can understand how a significant penalty would act as a good deterrent. I don't think her embarrassment even comes close to a good punishment for this.
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Zellers isn't the victim to the tune of $600 though. Why waste giving money to them that they don't deserve? You can still teach the kid a lesson without going overboard and giving Zellers money it doesn't come close to deserving.
If this was an adult with a history of this sort of stuff and stealing something much more valuable then I could see acting in this way to try and prevent them from doing so again in the future but this sure seems like a young kid making a silly mistake that is likely not going to happen again and certainly not going to cost the store anywhere close to what they are claiming.