Grocery store Karen faces financial retaliation after purposefully driving shopping cart over fellow customer's foot: 'Who knows what she would have done if she caught me when enraged'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Sep 26, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

As you might expect with something that combines a chore and the retail industry, grocery shopping can be a pretty stressful experience at times. Often, this can be due to the other customers. Grocery rage is a close second to road rage when it's bad, that is for sure.

This is an issue that one shopper quite literally ran into when he had an unpleasant encounter with a Karen while getting groceries. When the woman went out of her way to push her cart over his foot, he could not quite believe what he had just felt but he knew that he had been called to action. When the right moment struck, he was able to enact a petty revenge that Reddit could not help but applaud for its quick-thinking and deservedness. One thing's for sure, that lady went to the check-out counter with a lot more than she bargained for.

 

 

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    Run over my foot? Let me max your shopping bull then.
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    This was quite few years back. I may still need therapy. But my revenge was timely, petty and very very satisfying. One fateful evening I cycled over to Waitrose (an upmarket UK supermarket for posh people and vegans), to top up on gin and privilege. Due to the cycling, and my general lack of neatness, I was very casually attired and represented the 'scruffy bald hippy' demographic.
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    As i was weaving down the aisle, passing overstocked hummus shelves and avoiding the BMW crowd, someone pushed their trolley over my foot. Like, over it. They committed enough energy and momentum to overcome said organic obstacle and lifted their trolley the necessary inches to roll up, across and then down my delicate and sensitive tootsies. I said, "Ow."
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    Actually I said something slightly more whiny and pathetic, but for the purposes of this article, let's go with the, ever so slightly more butch, "Ow".
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    I then looked round at the perpetrator of this heinous violation of my person, expectant and ready for the apology and grovelling that was my due. She ignored me. She ignored me, stuck her nose up in the air, deliberately looked away, and continued to roll her trolley/mad max vehicle of destruction, along the organic entitlement and juice aisle. There was no way, none, that she had not noticed - she pushed! She knew! Agh!
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    I was ... actually I was confused. This was Waitrose! Not Aldi where a certain amount of bruising is par for the course, certainly not Lidl where the low intensity gang warfare between the Monthly Offers posse and the ruck around the "just out of date and now with added listeria" bargain row, leaves you with PTSD. No, no, no. This was the safe place, the comfort zone. This Did Not Happen Here!
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    I studied my nemesis. Those days we did not know of the "Karen". We had not classified, inventoried and categorised said beast. But if we had had, this would have been the Greater faux furred, bleach blonde elder Karen, with Principles, Entitlement and pretty strong legs to get over my shoes. Probably drove a Porsche SUV.
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    So I followed her; while, obviously, stocking up on well aged brie, some bespoke marmalade and bread sticks. Waiting for my moment ... So first, a bit of context. Waitrose had (has?) a fairly simple self service shopping system - you enrol, swipe a card on arrival, pick up a scanning 'gun' and a trolley, scan your items as you shop, and then take the gun to an express check out with a human cashier, where you pay. Simples. I was driving one of these, and so was Karen-Foot-Breaker. And this was h
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    She parked in the booze section, where I just happened - ahem - to be. And then she tottered over to berate a defenceless young assistant about something. Poor lad. And in doing so... she left her trolley, complete with scanning gun, unattended.....
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    Pleasure me backwards with a well buttered chainsaw, yes please! Without a moment's hesitation, I grabbed her gun, spun round to face the single malt whisky section, found a nice bottle of Ardbeg and - thanking all those long nights playing Call of Duty - aimed and pulled that trigger like the Zombie hordes were upon me. Not once, not twice, not... any sane number of times. I reckon somewhere over 15 times I scanned that barcode. Several hundred pounds of Ardbeg (Which i recommend, well rounded,
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    Grinning like a loon I rushed off, out, and onto my bike. Yes I payed. No I didn't get the organic truffle flavoured mayonnaise - I just wanted out! She ran me over for fun, who knows what she would have done if she caught me when angered! And so, outside the shop I waited, watching through the window as, with not the slightest inkling of the joy about to unfold, she finished her shop of premium ready meals for one, and went to the cashier to cash out.
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    Now, I have no idea what she bought, but she had a teeny tiny trolley (for the sad lonely people - yes I had the same), so it cant have been too much. Maybe £20? £30? Certainly not the tenfold increase those beautiful but non existent amber bottles of joy had accumulated... easily £2-300 extra. To be honest, if judging only by the shade of puce and amount of vigorous arm waving that ensued, possibly even more, when the cashier told her the bill. I even observed foot stamping. Oh yes. Thus enrich
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    Original_Charity_817 Great revenge. Though I did half expect you to drop a few unscanned items in her trolley as well so she'd be accused of shop lifting.
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    chalkmuppet OP To be honest, I went straight into panic/flight or fight. She was scary!
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    rudrashu1993 You should write more. Do you write? Please do write. I am ready to start a fund so that people can how you had your petty revenge. you off slightly so you can write
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    Jaren_Starain Mmmm nice read... I can't approve of this though, the collateral damage is too great. That poor cash register girl did nothing to you.
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    chalkmuppet OP Actually this is true - obviously at the time it just didnt occur to me, but I do have some guilt. On the plus side - it's actually simply resolved, and one hopes the lady in question realised quite rapidly it was not the cashier's fault.
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    Waifer2016 I'm dead. Dead. This is hilarious!! If you don't write professionally, you should!!! Best read in here in a very long time.
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    EasyJob8732 If this takes place in the US, I'd stealthily take her cart and simply push it as if it is mine to a far corner of our big box store and hide it.
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