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No, no, no—The customer is not always right! Ideally, everyone walking into any shop would be patient, polite, and well-versed in common sense. Unfortunately, those qualities are in short supply these days. This means that the staff has to smile, stay professional, and avoid facepalming, even when dealing with completely delulu shoppers.

The retail workers of the r/AskReddit online community recently opened up about the “dumbest things” that they’ve ever had to explain to their customers, and this is a whole other level of cluelessness. We’ve collected some of the most interesting stories to share with you. Scroll down to have a read, and don’t forget to upvote the posts that blew you away the most.

We got in touch with the person who sparked the interesting discussion, u/Fragmented-Rooster, and they were kind enough to share some thoughts about surviving in the retail world. They told us that it's vital to remember that "no job is ruining your mental health over." You'll find Bored Panda's interview with them below.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions (Phone call when I worked in a hardware store)

"Good morning, , how can I help you?"

"Hi there. I'd like to refill my prescription"

"Oh, I'm sorry - I think you have the wrong number. This is a hardware store"

<5 second pause>

"So you won't help me refill my prescription?"

"What sort of prescription?"

"My birth control pill"

"OK well we're a hardware store, so we don't have birth control or any other medication"

"You're not being very helpful at all"

And then she hung up...

I might have done society a disservice by not helping prevent her from procreating, come to think about it...

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, all hardware stores specifically choose not to stock birth control, only to not be very helpful at all

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“You do have to stay professional at all times, but at the end of the day, the customer ISN’T always right, and you’ve got to stick to policy,” the author of the thread, u/Fragmented-Rooster, told Bored Panda how it’s best to react to clueless customers.

"Keep your remarks until your break later and laugh at their ridiculousness over a coffee," they suggested.
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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I didn’t make your drink wrong, Amy. You ordered a large hot drink, and immediately after paying the barista put out a small cold drink and yelled “Jennifer.” Then, Amy, you picked it up and *took a sip* before realizing it was not your large, hot drink.

Shift lead sent me on break before I had a chance to fully explode.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would not have been able to keep a straight face while telling her that

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Dumbest thing, or customer, I had to explain is that there is no such thing as "lo cal" or lo calorie honey. It's f*****g "local" for cryin out loud. F*CK.

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The author also had some practical advice for surviving in a retail job for anyone who's completely new to this line of work. “Your first job probably isn’t going to be great. Stick at it, and if it’s bad, search for a new job while you’re still working. That way, there’s no dip in your paychecks,” they shared some practical advice.

They added that it's always worthwhile to make some friends with the staff. "Always remember no job is worth ruining your mental health over. Stay chill and talk to someone about it. If it’s not for you, then it’s okay to quit,” they advised.

According to the OP, they were inspired to start the discussion after having a conversation with a friend about the very worst customers they both had ever dealt with. Even though u/Fragmented-Rooster hoped the thread would get attention, they never expected the question to get so much traction. 

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions "Why are you shut tomorrow?"
"Uhh...because its Christmas day?"
"But what if I need something?"
"You...youre in the store now? Just buy it now?"
"But I dont *need* it now!"
"......".

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. We Americans understand this. Its the *stupid* Americans who don’t.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I used to run a feed store in an affluent area. We sold baby chicks, which were only females, for egg laying.

This guy comes in and is adamant about needing a rooster for more egg production.

That's not the case. I explained how the reproductive, egg laying process was. He just wasn't getting it. I was at my point, and plus, the fact I couldn't order just 1 rooster, I could only order roosters in a batch of 50.

I had to put it extremely bluntly to him, and I asked him,

"Sir, does your wife need you around every month to get her period?" His jaw drops and says, "OH my, how foolish could I be. "

Another customer asking "Where is the mother chicken?"

Me, "They don't need the mother hen."

Her, "How can they survive without their mother? You buy chicken breast at the store. She needs to breastfeed!"

Me, "That's not how it works.".

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6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did people completely miss the 'only mammals breastfeed' lesson in 3rd Grade?

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions A chicken is an animal. Therefore it's not vegetarian.

Worked in a vitamin store in college and was explaining to someone that vitamin D is extracted from lanolin in sheep's wool, so it depended on if you were vegan or not.

And they hit me with fish and birds are not animals.

The specific thing she said: "What about a chicken? It's not an animal, it's a fowl!"

My assistant manager told her something like, "Oh well remember the 20 questions game? Is it animal, mineral, or vegetable? A chicken isn't an a mineral or vegetable."

They left in a huff and made huge complaints about us. Me in particular because I couldn't believe how stupid they were (and I have no poker face).

I was not/am not cut out for retail.

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If you’re working in retail, sooner or later, you will have to deal with someone who’s completely clueless, irritable, rude, or trying to pull the wool over your eyes. It’s part of the job. Any position that requires you to interact with a large number of people is going to show you just how varied humanity is. Sure, most of your customers are probably going to be decent folks. But a small handful of them are probably going to try to ruin your day, whether they mean to or not.

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One important thing for retail workers to do is to try to figure out whether their problematic customer is simply having a bad day or if rudeness and entitlement are part of their character. To put it bluntly, after a bout of bad luck, many of us have probably snapped at a stranger when we didn’t mean to. An insightful employee who’s well-versed in empathy is going to be able to recognize that.
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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Used to work in a computer store, someone asked me once if a mouse mat would work with Windows 7. I worry about some people on this planet..

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions As a cashier when someone is paying cash: "hey if you can give me a penny, or a nickel I can give you a whole paper dollar back as change."

If your total was $19.10 and you gave me a $20. Give me $20.10 and I can give you a dollar bill for change rather than you carrying pesky spare change around.

This was back in the late 90s or early 00s. I know this confused people back then, it would totally explode someone's brain now.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know that situation, but the other way round. Meaning I as a customer give 20.10 on a 19.10 purchase. That confused some cashiers, especially in the US. In my experience German cashiers were much more used to that

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If you enter your PIN in wrong 5 times for an EBT card, it will lock up and you'll have to call the number on the back to get it unlocked. This isn't something the cashier does, or the store, it's the cards way of protecting itself I guess. 


The amount of people who would scream at me, insult my intelligence, swear at me and call me names, all because they locked their card up, was insane. 


And there wasn't anything I could do but void the order or let them pay with another form of payment. Sometimes I warned them after 2 or 3 tries, but that seemed to make them angrier when it happened. 


F**k the public, man. People are so rude and hateful now days. .

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Broadly speaking, when working in retail, it’s vital to stay professional, no matter what happens. Your company likely has a guidebook where it lists what it expects all its staff to do when faced with unhappy customers. There’s often a clear protocol. Some businesses also invest in training their workers, teaching them how to de-escalate tense situations. Though roleplaying some common scenarios can be a good teaching tool, it still might not prepare you for the real thing.

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In real life, your customers can throw you some curveballs and behave in completely unexpected ways. They might be unwilling to hear you out, even if you’ve got the solution and you’re trying to help them. If the situation is getting out of hand and it’s too much to handle, there’s no shame in asking for some help from a senior employee or your supervisor. They likely have more experience with handling these super-niche scenarios with problematic customers.
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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I've had to explain to customers that their coupon has to actually be for the product they're buying. Yes, a $3 coupon for a skin care product is a good coupon, however I cannot apply it to your cereal purchase.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But what if I put the cereal on my face? Like a face mask?

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Had an older (though not senior citizen) man who was 100% certain that were stealing money from his bank account because it kept showing $100 "charges" to the ATM at our location. After a series of questions he stated he sends his son in to pick up his prescriptions and gives him his debit to pay. Pointing out to him (from his own bank statement) that the $100 charges match the dates of the prescription pickups made him only more emphatic that someone from the store was using his card to steal his money.

Even pointing out that his bank statement specified the $100 as coming from an atm did nothing to sway his mind.

He stood at the front door staring at us for 20 minutes before finally leaving.

Sorry dude, your kids a d**k and you're an idiot. I cant fix either of those.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Back in the day I worked at Safeway and a woman walked up to my meat counter and started asking me where a specific sale item was, like $1 a pound chicken or something. I tell her that’s not sale we have. And she starts SCREAMING. “ YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS DO THIS! YOU BAIT AND YOU SWITCH! YOU ADVERTISE ONE THING AND THEN REFUSE TO HONOR THE PRICE! EVERYTIME SINGLE TIME I COME HERE AND IM SICK OF IT!”
She then shoves the store ad in my face and aggressively points at the $1 a pound chicken on sale.
“ Ma’am this is Safeway. That’s a Kroger ad”
She looks at it and says “ oh. Oops” and walks out as I stand there just freaking baffled at what just happened.


Also working meat department every Thanksgiving morning I would have to explain to at least 5 people that you cannot thaw and cook and 20 pound turkey by this evening.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First one doesn't sound legit. Who ever heard of a customer admitting their mistake?

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Once your colleague or manager steps in to help, pay close attention to what they say, how they say it, and what their body language is like. It’s very likely that they’ll exude an aura of confidence and calm. They’ll probably try to offer the customer some solutions, apologize a bit, and thank them for their concerns.

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Politeness can be a very powerful tool in your arsenal, especially when facing overwhelming rudeness. You have to try to resist the impulse to raise your voice and insult the customer. That being said, if they are being abusive, you do not have to tolerate their behavior: you or your manager can ask them to leave. Good companies will have protocols in place to protect their staff in these scenarios. 
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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I spent 20+ minutes arguing with a middle aged woman trying to return a XXL stack of men's underwear (against policy once opened). I explained that if her husband had a 32 inch waist like me she needed to buy him Medium size underwear.
She eventually and angrily shouted "Look, he's got a huge c**k and he needs XXL pants for it but these keep falling down when he wears them!!!!"

She would not accept my explanation that the tag size related to his waist not his junk. she raged out of the shop leaving the stack of pants behind.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I work in a deli. We've gotten some doozies. "What flavor are the plain breaded wings?" "Chicken." -from my wife.

My personal favorite that happened to me, went as such:

Customer: "Hi, I'd like some sliced chicken lunch meat, what you got?"

Me: "We carry oven roasted, buffalo, and garlic & herb."

Customer: You're not understanding me boy! I want sliced chicken lunch meat, now what you got?"

Me: "Oven roasted, buffalo, or garlic & herb."

Customer: "You're still not gettin' me son, I want sliced chicken lunch meat! Now tell me what you have, dammit!"

Me: "Oven roasted, chicken lunch meat. Buffalo, chicken lunch meat. Garlic and herb, chicken lunch meat."

Customer: "Oh. Uhhhhh gimme some balogna."

Still don't know how I didn't get in trouble for sassing that f****r.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Call me stupid, but I've never encountered buffalo chicken lunch meat in my entire 40-odd years on this planet.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions That the lamp she was trying to return did not have a defective cord, but had a protective plastic cap over the plug that needed to be removed.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I actually have one for this.

Worked in car parking customer service for a few years.

Had to explain to a lady why she was being charged for an hour and a half, instead of letting her out for free under the "half an hour free" rate ... When her vehicle had been in the car park. Parked. For an hour and a half.

Her reasoning ?

"I only intended to stay 20 minutes"

"My system shows me you were here for an hour and a half"

"Yes, but I only intended to be here for 20 minutes"

"But.....you were ACTUALLY here for an hour and a half..."

Ended up having to explain over 5 minutes how rates work, and how you get charged for the time in the park.

Wild.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I order a cheesecake and eat the entire cheesecake, I do not expect to be charged for the cheesecake IF I didn't want it. Absolutely sound logic. Also I want cheesecake now, but this hardware store won't sell it to me.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Back when I was in college I worked at a McDonald's I spent tne better part of 30 minutes explaining to a person that a cheeseburger with no cheese was in fact just called a hamburger.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Off topic, I really miss how the chicken McNuggets used to taste back in the day 😩

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions You can't return this TV because it has a cracked screen, if I can see the boot print.

Dude threw a punch at me over the counter in front of his wife and infant daughter.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, we know who put the boot through the screen.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions That watermelons don't grow on trees. And this was back in the days before these personal-sized seedless watermelons...back when they were like 20lbs. A woman was complaining that all of the watermelons were flat on one side and kind of yellow. I told her that was the side that was on the ground. She looked angry and surprised and asked, "What do you mean, 'on the ground'?!" like I was admitting to some secret that we leave the producing sitting on the ground out back, or something.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I, as a Walmart stocker, do not control the chemicals inside kids' toys.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions It smells like dirt because it’s a greenhouse and that’s where we plant the plants. 

Also sun loving means it loves the sun. .

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Why is the front of my dishwasher blue??

…did you remove the protective film?

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I worked at a grocery store in college. The local warehouse workers went on strike, meaning we were getting no product in and our shelves were getting more and more bare.

After getting yelled at by customers for a week for being out of stuff, I finally had it one night. This lady was berating me because we didn't have any chicken breast in the case. I said, "Look, there's nothing I can do about it. The warehouse is on strike and until it's resolved and they start delivering food again, I can't help you." She started screaming at me even more, saying how dare I blame the warehouse, her husband works there and if they would pay him a decent wage he wouldn't strike, blah blah blah. She immediately complained to the manager and I got written up.

Like.....tell your husband to go back to work if you need your family pack chicken so bad? I was the person with the least to do with situation here, yet she got me written up for it.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The real AH and idjit is the manager. Why, for the sake of the giant fluffy marshmellow, would one get written up for that?

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Back when printers at home were rare I had a woman come into my store asking for t-shirt transfer paper. I explained to her multiple times how to use them. Print on the paper then pin to shirt then iron.

30 minutes later she came back with the printer and paper wanting a refund because the shirt got stuck in the printer.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You did used to be able to get sheets of printable fabric too. I think some were even compatible with Barbie fashion designer

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions The elevator had a sign that read 'out of order', Customer asked if it was out of order on all of the floors.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, it COULD have been the doors that were out of order, not the actual elevator. Happens in my office building.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Customer: What's the difference between the 17-inch monitor and the 19-inch monitor?

Me: Two inches and 40 dollars.

Customer: But what's the difference?

Me: This one is bigger by two inches, measured diagonally, and more expensive by 40 dollars.

Customer: No, but what's the *difference?!*

This went on for several minutes. He left without making a purchase.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions "Putting that washing machine on the roof of your Golf is a bad idea."

No exaggeration, it happened.

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I was a Maytag repairman. A customer brought in a multicolored felt mat and asked for a new one. I had to explain that was lint from the lint trap.

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During covid: Some high stolen items were locked up and for some reason the salesfloor manager gave me; the pharmacy technician lead keys to said merchandise. A customer refused to let me touch the merchandise because of germs even though I was the one who stocked it less than 5 minutes earlier. When I explained that I touched everything in that case already she yelled at me for being gross and walked off without the product. I went back to the pharmacy and continued with my life without the product being stolen.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Quite common. In my supermarket days there was a customer who insisted we put plastic bags over our hands before we checked him out, and I never had the heart to tell him that his tins and veggies had been handled by process workers, stockers, and god knows how many customers before they even got to me.

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I was in a shop that just did (amazing) toasted sandwiches and 2 guys asked for a cheese toastie without the bread. The poor girl behind the counter explained over and over what a toastie was, but these 2 guys insisted. Hope they enjoyed their pile of melted cheese.

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Not retail, but general tech support. Turning the monitor on and off doesn't actually turn the whole pc on and off.

The amount of times I've gotten a call about a computer not working and all that was "wrong" was that it wasn't turned on, is staggering.

I guess this would make more sense these days, but this was over a decade ago and desktop computers were everywhere.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions That if you tell the self-checkout 'No, I don't want my receipt, it won't print out your receipt.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I used to work in a high-end liquor store that had a massive wine section and one day a lady came into the store and asked me where our "grape" wine was. I did not know how to respond. So I asked her some questions like was she looking for a specific type or brand, like a Chardonnay or a Cabernet, Pinot Grigio, Mad Dog, ripple? "Ma'am, unless the label says it is made from some other kind of fruit, this is all grape wine." But she just kept repeating that she wanted grape wine and got so mad at me and frustrated that I just did the motioning across entire aisles movement and walked away.

She wandered the aisles and finally found what she was after: Mogen David. Mogen David Concord was what she wanted.

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Former retail worker. The store I worked at through college would do a “friends and family” event twice a year. If you had a membership or received one of the discount cards, you received 30% off your entire purchase. The receipt showed the breakdown over each item for the discount.

There was one woman who would come in EVERYRTIME trying to return one item and would argue with our staff about why she wasn’t getting “what she paid for it.” We’d point to the item and the amount subtracted to it from the discount and she wasn’t having it. Insisted on asking for a manager everytime and causing a huge scene. She could never get it through her head that she didn’t pay full price for the item. It happened so often that staff would sigh when she’d come into the store because we knew she was going to pull the same stunt. It was exhausting.

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6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Presumably she ws wanting to be reimbursed the full price for a discounted item? Some stores, at some times, used to do cash refunds even without the receipt, so this was a quite common scam with discounted items.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions I used to work at a Goodwill. Guy rolled up with a 5 bag donation of mowed grass clippings and told me very nonchalantly to just "take 'em".

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Used to run auctions and fundraisers to do missions in Nicaragua (home building, family support, stuff like that). Can confirm people would actually Tell us they had something of value they were going to donate and then when we arrived expect us to take truck loads of garbage from their house. Actual garbage.

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#36

A woman tried to tell me yesterday PO Boxes no longer exist lol. I didn’t even bother. I was just like “oh, very strange” 🤣.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So any bills in my PO BOX are really not there? I wish someone told me this 17 years ago

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The number of customers to whom I've had to explain the difference between left and right is greater than zero.

These have all been adults. I wish I were kidding.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Retail banking:

Had to explain to a costumer why the balance that was printed on his receipt from Friday afternoon after a deposit wasn’t the same the next morning after he bought a pair of jeans. .

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is "customer" being replaced with "costumer" a common autocorrect thing? how often do people talk about costumers & cosplayers for this to happen?

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions A coupon for a free gift with purchase, mailed out in April, said “now - May 15th”. Customer came in June looking for his free gift and was pissed we didn’t have it anymore. He kept saying “but it says now!”.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well, if the year wasn´t specified it still could be technically valid

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I had to explain 3 for 2. If you bought 2, you could get a third one free.

They couldn't understand it. It was really bizarre.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Try explaining that on a BOGO offer that no, you couldn't JUST get the "GO" for free without buying the ONE.

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The amount of times I had to explain that any Euros can be spent the same in any country that accepts Euros and there aren't separate or specific notes for France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Austria etc etc it's scary.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do like that the Euro coin has "country specific" pictures on the backside. Last time I got one from Greece 🥰 it's oc a small thing but sometimes you need to get your joy where you can 😅

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I took a phone call and answered all the questions that she scrolled by on our google profile. She said, “I will call back later and see if you’re busy. What’s your phone number”. I replied, “the exact same number you dialed that lead to the conversation we are having now”.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the old days (in the UK at least) people might have been connected by directory enquiries - so it was possible to not know the number of the person you're speaking to on the phone. Shout out to those who remember the annoying 118 118 adverts.

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45 Times Dumb Customers Really Pushed Retail Workers To The Limit With Their Questions Back when checks were popular, an older lady mistakenly wrote her check to Walmart when she was actually shopping in Kmart.

Instead of making the correction, she wanted to argue that she was shopping in a Walmart and that Kmart had gone out of business many years ago.

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unrelated but I've never seen a brown Walmart sign before. Blue background is all I've seen.

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Shelve of milk bone bare, offering a clear view of a completely empty cooler. "Are you out of milk?" I have no idea how I kept my job that day with all the smart a*s responses I gave. Also, a woman cursed me out on the phone because we didn't have a product. I explain that we have not carried that product in over a year. She exclames she has one in her fridge she bought last week and asked if I was calling he a liar. "No mama, but I am the dairy lead and that product when we got it came in with a three week shelf life and we haven't received any for over a year so if you bought it last week I would recommend you bring it back for a refund cause it is far out of date.".

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6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Saw "milk" and "bone" next to each other and at the beginning, I thought this was gonna be about dog treats lol

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If you put standard definition signal on an HD television it looks like s**t. Garbage in Garbage out!

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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't entirely true. Better quality TVs have better upscaling algorithms. So it really depends on how the signal is being processed before display. It's never going to look as good as something mastered in true 4k. But you can get a pretty decent HD version of SD content with a good scaler.

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