Current Events > ITT: We post stories of working in retail

(+) Yeah! (+)

I worked in the Walmart deli and a guy literally asked if we smoked the smoked Gouda ourselves. He seriously asked me if we put it on a grill and smoked it.

"It's cheese, sir. We can't put it on a grill."

"Then how is it smoked?"

"You know what, I don't know. Call up Boar's Head and ask."
---

BlueBoy675 posted...

I worked in the Walmart deli and a guy literally asked if we smoked the smoked Gouda ourselves. He seriously asked me if we put it on a grill and smoked it.

"It's cheese, sir. We can't put it on a grill."

"Then how is it smoked?"

"You know what, I don't know. Call up Boar's Head and ask."

You really should have made a smoking joke. Like cigarettes and such.
---

Horrible entitled customers
---

No, it hurts too much to talk about.
---

Some questions are innocent. Outlandish, yes but some people need a minute lol
---

I worked loss prevention for a big grocery store chain in Chicago.

I once caught a teenager or early twenty-something trying to steal a bottle of whiskey. He shoved it down his pants and into his sock for support. When confronted, he denied this and attempted to fight me. I defended myself, reclaimed the bottle, and let him flee.

Two days later, a night shift. Same kid walks in with two other buddies. They were all a good size and I was working alone; I knew I couldn't take all three of them. So, I followed them around the store, not attempting to hide myself as i usually might. I stood five feet from them, staring at them as they went to the liquor department, same whiskey area. They obviously noticed me- that was the point. Enraged, they called me racist, called me a f** for staring at them, said what I really wanted was to fuck them. I didn't say a word. On their way out, they complained to the manager about my racism and spat on the floor. They bought nothing (but didn't attempt to steal, either).
---

circa 2001, working in a pharmacy as the front store manager

customer is pissed at the pharmacist because he wouldn't give him more drugs when his prescription expired.

customer goes to the front an asks a clerk to use the private bathroom
she lets him
he proceeds to wipe his shit all over the bathroom just fucking exploding it ever.

guy leaves
owner/pharmacist goes to bathroom holy fucking shit he is screaming.
girl who let him use is forced to clean it
pharmacist looks up the customer info, calls the cops
old dude gets charges pressed against him and gets a large fine, pays damages and like a weekend in jail or something + probation

girl who cleaned up the shit I let go home with pay for the rest of the day, pharmacist gets pissed at me and I tell him to fuck off, he just made a 16 year old girl clean up human shit. he realizes he overreacted (there wasn't a good policy in place for who could use the private bathroom and who couldn't since the pharmacist/owner would yell at the clerks if they didn't let his friends/good customers use the restroom and that was an ever changing cast). we then set a firm no one other than employees using the bathroom policy which lasted about 2 weeks.
---

Almost burned down the cart at the Winchester mystery house because management thought it was a good idea for a person who didn't know how to make popcorn to make popcorn.

A customer chewed me out because I happened to be in his way after the Mystery house tour. He said, "Fuck this place, this is bullshit! You gonna charge me 35 a person and for this shitty little house. My house back in Maine is bigger than this, more ghosts in it, and it has better climate control." I just looked at him until he got tired of saying all that and then he walked away even more mad.
---