Yeah gonna give ya the hard news- most places aren't just telling you no. Most of the time the register will not accept the receipt past the return date. Lying won't help.

You just said they'd give you store credit. If you don't need it, why don't you take your family shoe shopping for christmas?

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I'm sure if you're not an asshole about it, most cashiers won't care. Try not to press your luck tho and just take the L if it doesn't work. Other than that, fuck multi-million dollar corpos.