in another article same subject, if you take it out of your cart it doesn’t get charged. You get your receipt via email.
Makes sense, if you lay it down somewhere then you haven’t gone out the door with it. It might be mislaid for a while, but there’s probably some store scanner that can identify mislaid items to be returned to their proper shelves.
Maybe the scanner could also identify radiation-opaque containers to require looking at by door greeters “so nothing is accidentally forgotten.”