'Karen literally stomps her foot and says, "Why can't I have these?"': Entitled shopper tries to steal right out of customer's grocery cart

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 28, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

This is a strange one — why would this woman try to steal food from another customer while in a grocery store? Doesn't she know there's plenty to go around? 

Entitled people never cease to surprise us with their shenanigans. U/Wisdomofpearl shared their own story after they were stunned by this Karen. As the OP writes, the incident took place at a warehouse store, where they were already in the checkout line. A "total stranger" approached the OP and the two struck up a conversation over some breakfast bars that the OP was paying for. For some reason, the Karen took this as a cue to be lazy and entitled. I really don't know what she expected the OP to do — did she really think she'd just get away with stealing? 

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    Font - r/r/Entitled People Posted by u/Wisdomofpearl Karen wants what I have in my shopping cart. S Today I went shopping at a member's warehouse store. I was in line waiting to check out and this total stranger of a woman asks me about an item I have in my shopping cart, breakfast bars that my husband really likes. I tell that they are good and my husband's favorite. She says she is going to get them so I start to tell her where they are located in the store. She says, "well since you know wher
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    Font - I tell her no you aren't taking those and just as I tell her that the person who helps expedite the check out process comes up and starts to get all the bar codes turned upright. The Karen tells her that she is getting my breakfast bars. And I say no again, the employee directs her to where she can get her own box and Karen literally stomps her foot and says, "why can't I have these?" The employee tells her because there in my cart and I am checking out now. The employee did have someone
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    Font - I did get the employee's name and I left her a positive review on the website.
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    Font - 0 Fiery_n_Small 13 hr. ago I will never understand why people are so oblivious to the fact that they're not owed anything. It baffles me and probably others. And you can't argue with them because they'll always feel like they're right!
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    Font - Why_Teach 13 hr. ago . People who do things like that have to be a little insane.
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    Gesture - Illustrious-Act-1931 13 hr. ago Karen sucks!
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    Font - OhComeOn 9 hr. ago A long long time ago one of my friends was shopping at the commissary on a military base. A woman came up and took an item from friend's cart and placed it in her own. Friend confronted her and took it back and the woman flipped out. She started screaming "what rank is your husband ". Friend told her last time she checked their dependent I. D. cards were the same color. Woman screamed about husband's rank over and over. He, of course was a high ranking officer. It escal
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    Font - mamabeark93 - 12 hr. ago Why are so many people sure they are entitled to whatever the heck they want?? Use Instacart if you wanna sit on your and do nothing a
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    Gesture - a-_rose 13 hr. ago Ugh I hope there was non left when she got there
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    Product - sandtigeress 13 hr. ago yea right, she wanted your food and your place in the queue. nope !
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    Font - zyzmog 6 hr. ago. edited 4 hr. ago Upvoted for getting the employee's name and leaving her a positive review on their website. I mean, the entire post was upvoteworthy, but little acts like this make a world a better place, and can, in fact, neutralize the Karen effect.
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    Font - Belladcjomum. 7 hr. ago I feel like the problem is that there's always been an expectation of kindness in the world. But it's shifted from "I will be kind and do kind things to everyone" to "Everyone will be kind and do kind things to me". The first is what makes the world a bearable place and is so important to the fabric of society. And the people that expect the latter refuse to do the first.
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    Font - Zbot21 5 hr. ago I was always taught to "treat others as I wished to be treated." I like this because it gives me license to dish bulls back and not take it if people are dealing it out. No need to try to be nice anymore to someone who's already proved themselves a ba but if I'm a ba expect to be treated like one.
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    Smile - NinjaHidinginthe Open 10 hr. ago Holy entitlement Batman!
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    Rectangle - CON Pohkopf 5 hr. ago I've found that "F k off!" works really well in this kind of situation.
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    Font - Some-Might-Say-So. 6 hr. ago This has just reminded me of a similar incident a few months ago. I was waiting to pay for half a dozen items at the checkout, planning to pay on card. There was a Karen behind me, with a single chocolate bar, as I was being scanned she snuck up behind me, put her chocolate bar under the cashiers scanner, passed me the £1 it cost and said, sorry I'm in a rush, pay for this on your card....and left. Well it all happened so fast I did not have time to react...to
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