Also, PY should not have stopped the check. A check should only be stopped if an error has been made, or the check has been lost. The purpose of that is not to subvert your contract with the store.
If you use a check to pay someone, then stop it, that is tantamount to passing a false check. Think if the roles were reversed, and the store refunded your money with a check, and then they stopped it. Would you think that was unfair?
Legally, what you did was pass a bad check. You used a check that was to be made no good, and used that to pay for merchandise. No wonder you ended up in the registry.
It’s not fair to the store owner.
You wouldn’t do it to a merchant you knew in your neighborhood, you shouldn’t do it to a large retail store either.