DaMoshe it’s not worth the strife to leave things out for store to put back. At a young age I was taught to put things back when you no longer need them. Just put them back, why should a worker put back items when it is the owner/manager you are mad at. Why make others suffer because you are lazy and ungrateful. Why make the chillul HaShem, even if workers are Jewish it is still a chillul HaShem.
Today when I was helping my Mom in supermarket, she saw a grape juice display that had cheaper grape juice, (in different part of supermarket) so she asked me to get some. I PUT BACK the other grape juice and took the cheaper grape juice. She told me I obviously wasn’t a New Yorker.(she lives in NYC, I grew up not in NYC) I didn’t understand what she was saying until she explained that New Yorkers would have left it there. Shouldn’t this be natural instincts to return items their shelf.
BTW I offer you a brocha that your financial situation should be one where you don’t have to worry about money.