Entitled shopper confuses customer for employee, demands their employee discount: 'You’re wearing red and khakis. Don’t lie to me!'

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Jun 3, 2025 8:00 AM EDT

It's remarkable what can happen when you accidentally wear the wrong outfit. We see this all the time when people somehow make the silly decision to wear white at weddings, or a bunny outfit to a non-costume party (Elle Woods, you will forever be famous for taking that in stride). But in real life, sometimes you can attract the wrong types of people by accidentally making yourself look like someone else. In this instance, we're talking about a customer who made the unfortunate error of wearing red and khakis at a Target. He would come to regret his decision pretty soon thereafter.

Working in retail often means having to deal with entitled customers, but when you're just another customer trying to buy some quick essentials for your apartment, the last thing you want is for someone to bombard you with questions because they think you're an employee. For this author, he had to deal with a difficult lady all the way until checkout.

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One funny moment in this story is the remark the actual employee made to the author about how this happens more often than anyone would think. The thing about customers like this woman is that they cannot admit that they are wrong, so they have to double down on their frustration until they leave the store rather than acknowledge that they made an innocent error.
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Entitled shopper confuses customer for employee, demands their employee discount: 'You’re wearing red and khakis. Don’t lie to me!'

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