Cereal-Flipping Mom Gets Denied Her Obscene Grain Load

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Eric Lund
Sep 3, 2021 5:00 PM EDT

There are people who buy in bulk at the supermarket, and then there is the woman from this post on r/entitledparents, who shows up to a supermarket every so often to buy apparently anywhere between fifty to 300 boxes of cereal at a time. Aside from the basic absurdity of this — people in the comments speculated that she is flipping cereal for local bodegas — the parent in question apparently refuses to let the supermarket know ahead of time when she will be coming to purchase as much cereal as possible, leaving the original poster and his coworkers scrambling to fulfill an insane order more than once. When this OP found themselves in direct interaction with the woman in this exact scenario, the unhelpful shopper finally got a dose of her own medicine, getting turned away because she didn't do as they ask and call days in advance so the store could be prepared to fulfill her order.

There has to be a better way to live life than spending it wasting everyone's time at the supermarket. Anyone who has worked retail has had to deal with their fair share of scheming customers, like this rotten salad lady who got banished from the deli section.

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    Font - Posted by u/Scarlet-absol13 2 days ago 24 3 I'm Not Going to Risk My Job Because You Want an Obscene Amount of Cereal M I work at a supermarket and one of our regular customers is a woman who comes in with her two kids and buys an absolutely obscene amount of cereal whenever it's on sale. Now when I say an "obscene amount" I don't mean 10 to 20 boxes at a time. No, she's not here for math word problem level amounts of cereal. She comes in and buys anywhere from fifty to three HUNDRED
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    Font - boxes at a time. Her and her kids usually come to the backroom door with three shopping carts and ask for 9 to 15 cases of cereal depending on how much we have left in stock. She's gotten denied service a few times, like the time she tried to buy an entire pallet of cereal, 5 boxes per transaction the day before Thanksgiving. Management cut her off after 18 transactions (90 boxes) because her order was holding up the lines for 3 of our 7 operational registers (3 of our registers were brok
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    Font - and has told the woman on multiple occasions that if she's going to purchase more than 3 cases of cereal, she has to call a few days before she comes in so he can order extra cereal but she always claims that she won't know what she'll need until she comes in and refuses to. This happened to me on a Sunday when I was the only person working in my department.
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    Font - I had just finished emptying the baler when Cereal Lady poked her head into the st room, "Hey could you get me some cereal?" She asked. I scanned our sale pallets and she said: "It's on the second level of the scaffolding." (The scaffolding she was talking about is the same kind of scaffolding you would see at a Wholesale Club like Costco, Sam's Club or BJ's Wholesale). So I told her: "Unfortunately, I can't get that down for you. I'm not authorized to use the equipment needed to get that
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    Font - She then asked: "Is there anyone on who can get that down for me?" And I responded, "Unfortunately, I'm the only one on at the moment. The full-timer who normally works along side me on Sundays has the day off." She sighed and asked: "Could you just do it for me this one time?" And I responded with: "No. I'm not authorized to use the machine needed to get that down." And she said: "Seriously? You can't just do it this one time?"
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    Font - And I told her: "No, I can't do it this one time. I'm not allowed to use the machinery nor do I know how to use it. If I get caught using that equipment I won't only lose my job, but I could potentially face legal trouble and steep fines should I damage something or injure myself." She huffed then went: "Fine, I'll just get front end manager, he'll do it for me." A few minutes later the front end manager walked into the storeroom with the woman in tow, "Hey OP, are you authorized to use t
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    Font - The front end manager turns to Cereal lady and said: "I'm sorry but that product is unavailable for today. There's no one who can get that down." Cereal lady then shrieked: "You're a manager and you can't get that down for me!?" And the front end manager responded with: "I wasn't trained on that equipment because this isn't my department and therefore I'm not allowed to operate it. You're going to have to come back tomorrow if you want that." Cereal lady then stormed back to the cereal ai
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    Font - agnurse · 2d She doesn't know she's going to need potentially HUNDREDS of boxes of cereal DAYS IN ADVANCE? Jeepers, is she getting periodically invaded by rampaging armies demanding breakfast and she doesn't know when they'll show up until they arrive? 2.1k 5 LJ Reply Share Report Save Strange-Implement-91 - 2d - edited 2d 3 She's stocking bodegas and corner stores. Processed grains last forever and can be easily flipped if you find a place selling a dollar lower than a section of the hoo
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    Font - fromeighttillate94 · 2d What is she doing with all that cereal?? 317 Reply Share Report Save Scarlet-absol13 OP 2d The rumor going around the workers is that she sells them to various gas stations and non-chain convenience stores in the area I live in.
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    Organism - reasonablekaren - 2d I used to extreme coupon. It got too much for me morally that I stopped. But yeah, ladies will want to buy 100 boxes at a time. I personally have taken home 20 boxes of cereal... all free. And if it's Kelloggs they will mail you $5 credit cards for purchasing. So make money just bringing it home. I can't imagine reselling it.
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