'I scanned about $475 worth of stuff': Dad takes kids to grocery store and lets them snack on whatever they want, then leaves without paying

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 6, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

This dad acts like he's never been to a grocery store in his entire life. He threw a fit just because the self-checkout was too much for him to handle.

Self-checkout has become a way of life in many parts of the world, replacing cashiers with scanning machines you can operate yourself. This works well for many shoppers, because it means you don't have to wait as long in lines, and plenty of people like the privacy of not having to talk to anyone while they shop. But not everyone feels that way — this guy, for example, feels plenty entitled to having a cashier check him out. 

I've seen freak outs over self-checkout lines before, so I'm inclined to believe this guy's terrible tale. Some people feel that when they're forced to scan their own items, they're "doing work" for the store. Then, they start yelling and requesting assistance, and the cashiers can't calm them down, because they're so worked up over this small slight. Some people just can't handle change, apparently. 

Scroll down to read the whole story. Then, these people shared the dumbest things they ever did in their 20s. 

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    Motor vehicle - A 'We get to the checkout and there are no cashiers. At all.'
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    Hair - AITA for wasting the grocery store employees time
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    Font - Okay so here's the story I just moved into my own apartment after a really sty divorce. My wife had cheated on me but I live somewhere that doesn't affect the outcome of a divorce.
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    Font - I was happy to be out, even though it meant giving up my house. Whatever. My kids had a great place to grow up.
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    Font - Anyways. I took my kids to the grocery store to fill up my new fridge and freezer. It had been a long time since I did the grocery shopping so I didn't realize how much everything was going to cost.
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    Font - Not a big deal. I make a good living and I have a trust fund that my ex couldn't touch. So we get to the checkout and there are no cashiers. At all.
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    Font - There are employees hanging out by the customer service desk and they saw me, but they didn't come to the cash registers. There was one girl working at the self check out. She waved me over to do my own scanning. I asked why none of the tills were open and she just shrugged.
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    Font - Okay. So I told my kids it would take me a while to get everything scanned so if they wanted they could go through the ice cream aisle and get some frozen snacks and stuff like corn dogs and chicken nuggets.
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    Font - My kids sort of freaked out because they know their mother will lose her s if she finds out I am letting them eat junk food.
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    Font - They come back when I am about two thirds done scanning. Still no tills open. I had filled about ten bags with groceries.
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    Font - After everything was said and done I scanned about $475 worth of stuff. Then I grabbed my kids and walked out.
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    Font - The cashier asked where I was going and I just shrugged. We went to a different grocery store with cashiers and I bought groceries and junk food there after I bought my kids a treat for helping me out.
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    Font - Usrname52 O tain [160] Wow, an absolute raging YTA. You left $475 of groceries there for the staff to put away. Probably having to throw away anything that was refrigerated or frozen? And you wasted all your kids' time by actually scanning it all, instead of just leaving it when you noticed no registers were open. And you think the minimum wage supermarket employees have a say in when to open the registers?
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    Font - If you were upset, ask to speak to a manager. File a complaint. Post a review online. But a raging YTA by being petty.
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    Font - RndmIntrntStranger. Partassipant [3] yep. cashiers have zero say in which register is open. they get told by management if they're on a register or if only self checkout will be open. OP should've complained to a manager instead of being passive aggressive about it to the people who have literally no authority to open a register. YTA
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    Font - Frenchpoirot YTA, you just made extra work for a girl working most likely minimum wage. Why go through all that scanning wasting your own time for some pettiness? Oh god, the effort of you having to actually scan and bag your own items. Such horror.
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    Font - Glittercorn111 Colo-rectal Surgeon [47] I was gonna go ESH, then I remembered something. CASHIERS AREN'T IN CHARGE OF S. Of course they don't know why any lanes are open or not, they don't make those choices! So you wasted you and your kids time, over some minimum wage people just doing their jobs. YTA. For being petty and immature.
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    Font - Formal_Air1697. A > Enthusiast [9] Working retail I guarantee all that will happen is they will call someone else who wasn't even their to handle the stuff he left. And this will not even be mentioned to a manager. So his childish passive aggression was totally pointless.
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    Font - avocado_pits86. OMG I love self check-out. I would 100% rather do this than interact with a person
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    Font - emccm Certified Proctologist [20] YTA. I wish your ex all the best in her new life. She's earned every second of it. You see a lot of petty, AH behavior on Reddit but this is Top 5 for sure.
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    Font - SmoSays A: Aficionado [10] YTA. Why on earth did you go through scanning everything?
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    Font - Ok_Construction7462 OP I've gotten an earful since that day trust me. But my kids are happy and we have a great time making healthy meals together that have flavour. I think they were sick of skinless chicken breast and rice every day.
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    Font - Status_Print_5099. OK I don't care what anyone else says, I think that was pretty funny! (For all those confused- I believe that OP kept scanning items, bagging them, and then left without paying or taking any of them). NTA. 10/10 OP Maybe take a picture of your kids with some junk food and send it to your ex... Just a thought.
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    Font - Usrname52. You aren't an AH for letting your kids eat chicken nuggets and ice cream. You are an AH for everything you did at the supermarket.
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