‘He just didn’t want to be happy’: Impatient customers berate grocery store staff because they aren't checking them out quick enough, cashier bites back

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Dec 14, 2024 9:00 AM EST

When you're gearing up to check out at the grocery store, waiting in line is part of the adventure. Some folks think that the entire world revolves around them and they don't need to wait in line. Other patient shoppers queue up in an orderly fashion and actually have empathy for customer service workers who are doing their best to accommodate everyone fairly.

Entitlement exists in all ages—it doesn't discriminate. The customers in the story you're about to read thought they could boss grocery store staff members around like they were personal servants. Luckily, these employees know their worth and refuse to subject themselves to entitlement taken too far. When half of the duo realizes his temper tantrum is not getting him quicker check out service, he leaves his wife to pick up all of the pieces. What a gentleman, right? When his wife tries to pull a fast-one after the dramatics, the cashier will not have it. Scroll to read.

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    "Sorry I have places to be."
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    Found one at the grocery store but the cashier bit back
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    So I am a vendor that services a lot of grocery stores but until today hadn't really come across a good one until today. At a grocery store in the morning. Fairly slow, one
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    lane open plus 4 self check out lines. Middle age couple comes up huffing and puffing that there is someone in line in front of them that's loading things onto the
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    belt and being checked out and it's ridiculous that there aren't more lines open. Cashier says they can use self check out. Husband says that he shouldn't have to do her
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    job for her. Apparently 10 seconds is all he can take because he just mutters fine and walks over to self checkout. First item he scans at self checkout needs cashier
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    approval so the poor girl running the area comes over to fix it and he lays into her about how terrible the service is and how offended he is that he has to wait. While the
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    cashier is trying to fix the item scan, customer looks over and sees the cashier manager showing another employee how to do something at the customer service desk.
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    Cue a nice entitled EXCUSE ME while looking at her. She has no idea what's going on so asks how she can help. He berates her for having a personal conversation
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    and she needs to open a lane for him right now since she's on the clock and he has places to be that are far more important than her conversation. She gives
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    the biggest eye roll I've ever seen and says ok go to register 2 I'll be there in a second. He drags his wife to register 2 and starts unloading groceries,
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    cashier manager gets there and starts ringing him up. He asked her something but I didn't. hear what and she said sorry I can't go check that that will take time and you have places to
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    be. That apparently broke his brain because he just looked at his wife and said you handle this and walked out of the store. Then the wife has the audacity to look at the
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    cashier and say can I break this into multiple transactions? Cashier looked at her and said sorry I have places to be and opened to try to help out so you get one
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    transaction with me or you're welcome to go back into the other line that's open. Wife just hung her head and said just check me out.
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    I saw the husband talking to the manager in the entryway so made sure to grab him on his way in and tell him the cashiers did everything right and the guy was aj Manager just said yeah I
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    could tell 3 words into the conversation he just didn't want to be happy. Some people
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    Accomplished_... • 1d ago Some folks ain't happy 'less they're miserable.
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    Lulupoolzilla 23h ago. This is why I couldn't be a manager. "Oh no sir! I completely forgot that you are the only human being in the world that matters and everyone else must be d to your will. I will rectify this immediately after I flog myself for not putting you on a mighty pedestal, your majesty!"
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    • InvestigatorTop... 1d ago He and his wife are their worst enemy. They deserve each other.
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    zendetta 23h ago "Sorry, you have places to be". Wow, that is Olympic gold level petty revenge.
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