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Police said that two cashiers at Met Food in Castleton Corners bought $705 worth of gift cards with purloined credit card.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- That's not customer service.

Two supermarket cashiers were arrested after police said they used a credit card accidentally left behind by a customer to buy hundreds of dollars worth of gift cards for themselves.

Westerleigh residents Carissa Simeone, 19, and Danielle Signoretto, 20, were arrested at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday inside the Met Food supermarket at 1795 Victory Blvd., Castleton Corners, according District Attorney Daniel Donovan's office.

Court papers said that a review of surveillance video at the supermarket from Tuesday at 5:26 p.m. showed Ms. Signoretto picking up a credit card left behind in the cash register area.

Police said the pair then purchased numerous gift cards, totaling $705, at various cash registers in the store.

A customer had alerted police that she had misplaced her Discover credit card at the store earlier that day.

According to the court papers, the defendants told police that they decided to use the credit card for the alleged gift-card splurge after seeing other customers do it.

The defendants were charged with one count each of grand larceny in the fourth degree; one count each of criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree; one count each of petit larceny, and one count each of criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, court papers said.