‘Tell me the total NOW!’: Grocery store Karen customer pays $85 dollars more in groceries because she kept verbally cutting off employee

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    Tell me NOW!!!
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    This one should be short and sweet. I teach during the school year and supplement my understandably- income with various jobs, grocery cashier at your Arizona hometown grocer.
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    Every day I encounter at least ten customers who are less than pleasant, but we manage to get through the transaction unscathed. Today was a day like no other.
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    My job is to make the customers experience a pleasant one as They spend their money, putting food on my table. I don't take that for granted, promise. I appreciate even the ahole customers. But this particular lady devoured every morsel of my patience.
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    She started with an "oh, you ARE open!", followed by a harshly yelled "don't bag any of my things!!" I acknowledged this statement, then shed her for her phone number for her savings card. She interrupted me before I could get anything it by saying "I said don't bag them!" When I clearly was just setting them aside.
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    I started to ask her again when she interrupted the picosecond I spoke by saying "you know what go ahead and bag them paper in plastic "Okay fine. No problem. But man I need to get this lady's number for her savings. What am I gonna do?!?!
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    I decide to give some grace here. I ask her one more time with as much syrupy sweetness as a 47- year-old man can muster "ma'am can I get your Savings Num-"
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    Right then she spat out at me "what's my total?" I tried to tell her that without the savings card she'd be paying 85 dollars more than she originally intended. It was super clear she was shopping for the digital sales because that's all she got, bags
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    of chips that somehow need to be bagged paper in plastic on sale for sixty percent off, then Coke 12 packs that were buy two get three free, four iterations of them. But no no no, she wouldn't let me talk. She saw that I was done scanning and repeatedly
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    and indignantly demanded for me to tell her the total. I didn't want to lie to her and say it was the price it should have been with the sale when it wasn't but I didn't want to indicate to her that clearly the price was wrong.
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    She said "tell me the total NOW!" So enter malicious compliance. I told her the total was "296.37" with that sweet intonation that the price was so good. I don't know if she was flustered because of how hot and heavy she was about, well, everything, but she went right along handing me three hundreds and I gave her her change.
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    I handed her the receipt, and as soon as her and her friend walked toward the exit they started to scan the receipt slowly as they trodded out. She shook her fist at the sunset. I guarantee there will be an update to follow.
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    Over_Smile9733 • 9h ago Serves her right. She obviously shops there regularly, has ap on phone. Knows well you will ask for phone #. Crankiness cost her 85 bucks. lol. That's a lot of money.
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    Imaginary_Poetry... . 8h ago Sounds like a customer I had at a fast food place. Man orders four identical dinners that I realize make up a family pack. I tried to tell him we could still plate it the same way but I could ring it up differently for a substantial discount. This goober literally snarls "Just give me what I asked for!" | happily complied. You just can't help some people.
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    Fungus_Vampire • 6h ago I have customers like that. Then they'll have the audacity to ask after they pay "can I put in my number?" No, you can not, get the out of my store
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    CoderJoel 9h ago What did the sunset do to her?
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    . Piggypogdog ⚫ 3h ago I hoped you used the word "only" when giving her the price. Likes this cat ONLY costs 100k.
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    ABO mlsinpa69 • 1h ago What you encountered is a "Karen in the Wild". There is no pleasing a Karen in the Wild, you can only Maliciously Comply with them!
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    Initial_Tear485 • 7h ago . "Shook her fist at the sunset"
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    tuppence063 • 6h ago I am the complete opposite, I will look for discounts and coupons for everything. I shop 90% of the time where I get a discount. The other day I had to get something for the car, looking for a discount found one for 8% but was chatting with the cashiers (one I knew quite well) and they very kindly gave me their discount of 25%. It is sometimes who you know but it is very much how you behave as well.

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