'You don't have any change?': Customer asks cashier to pay for part of her order

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 20, 2024 5:00 PM EST

If you want to receive, you must ask… nicely. That's especially true if the person you're asking a question to happens to work in retail!

The retail workers of the world spend a lot of time helping customers and answering their questions. At lost of jobs, workers quickly realize that customers ask the same two or three questions all day long, like asking where a specific section is, or asking about the same sales. But sometimes customers throw a question at you that you're not expecting. Then there are times like this, when the customer asks a question that not even a manager would know how to answer. Though, to be fair, one of the first things one learns in a retail environment is that people are seriously strange at times. This woman was either an oddball, or just entitled enough to not care at all about the value of money. 

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  • You can check out this story by u/thenexthefner down below, as well as comments from people who supported the OP. And after that, while we're talking about money issues, this moving company stunned a customer by doubling her rates---even though she only needed three items to be moved. 

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    customer expected me to pay the rest of her balance..
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    this lady just came in to buy 2 items & the total came out to $5.30. she hands me a $5 and i'm waiting for her to hand me the change & she's just staring at me. I say "do you have the 30 cents?" and she goes "no." ... well, okay the total is still $5.30 so I say again, "I still need the 30 cents..." and she goes "you don't have any change?"
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    like ??? why would I, the cashier, just have change to pay the remainder of your balance?? and why would I do that??? The spare change jar on the counter was empty, so I stared at her and said "no?" She ended up having more than enough change in her purse! but ?? why would she just assume I'd pay the rest at first? So weird.
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    Scary-Alternative-11. I once had a lady reach into my tip jar right in front of me, pull out 5 $1 bills and try to order a coffee from me with it. I took the money out of her hands and told her to get out and never come back. She tried to say "You make more than enough money, you don't need
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    it!" I said "Yes, as the owner of my shop, I do make more than enough, but that doesn't make stealing ok. Now leave before I call the cops.' "1
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    thenexthefner OP. wow, the audacity of some people. that's insane. i cant believe she even tried that.
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    Dark Moonstruck. When I worked as a cashier at a well-known pharmacy chain, there was this group of kids who came in EVERY day - I think they lived just down the street - to buy candy and They would gather up a bunch, wait until there were other people coming up to check out and then
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    conveniently never have enough to buy everything and would just stand there and look sad until someone offered to pay for them - and sometimes they'd be back again a bit later to do it all over again! A few times, the person who was trying to help them would even give them cash and the kids would end up not buying anything and just take the
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    money and leave. Their mom would sometimes be sitting out in the parking lot, I think she was taking the money they stole off other people. I started warning people about the kids doing that all the time, and she came in to yell at me until I and the manager - who was ex military and took NO - threatened to
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    ban her and her slew of kids from the store entirely, which I really wish we would have done anyway. Scheming cheapskate mother teaching her kids to be thieving little brats too. I hope they got taken away from her.
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    Throwaway728420. Was at a store last month and this dude went up to checkout with like 5 different snacks and told the cashier "I don't have any money". She handled it perfectly, "okay, well I'm not paying for your Guy in front of me decided to pay for some reason.
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    MechanicIris I work SCO and when a customer jokes with me about paying for their groceries, I ask them where they work. If they ask why, I respond with "So I can come to your job and ask for free stuff too!"
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    KarenBordeaux So they want the person making $7.25 an hour to pay their $0.30 so now that person only made $6.95 an hour. WHAT HUMAN GARBAGE. DON'T GO TO THE STORE IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT.
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    CompetitiveAd269 I will always remember this one customer we had when I worked at a kiosk for a popular coffee giant. I cannot for the life of me remember what she drank but here total ALWAYS came out to $4.02 and she always would hand the cashier $4 and walk away. We did try in the early days
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    to get the rest but "it's just 2 pennies", kinda hard to argue that. Then one fateful day she came in to get coffee for her office and her change was $0.04. Being the regular she is and how she feels about "it's just pennies" the cashier did not give her
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    the change.... Did she ever flip, she started making an end of the world scene that we were stealing her money. Well the very next day guess who's back for their $4.02 drink? I ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to even start making her drink till I got my pennies.
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    Old ManJeepin It's just a game for trash like that. They get away with it, so they do it over and over! Glad you didn't fall for it. Nobody should...
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