Entitled mom demands shopper empty their full grocery cart and give it to her, shopper refuses, leading to a dispute in the store: ‘Ma'am, your crisis doesn’t make my cart your property’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 3, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

If there is one reason you should switch to DoorDashing your groceries instead of physically going to a grocery store, it is that you will never have to deal with entitled people while shopping ever again. Grocery stores are a magnet for people with main character energy, who fully believe the world revolves around them and that anyone should adhere to their demands.

At least when you use DoorDash, you won't have to deal with people cutting you in line, screaming at you to clear the aisle for them, or the cherry on top–demanding you give them your shopping cart even if it is completely full.

How would you react to someone coming up to you and telling you to immediately empty your cart, simply because they need it? Personally, I think I would gracefully ignore said person and wouldn't even bother giving them an answer to their ridiculous request.

The person who had to deal with this demand in the story below, however, had a few things to say to the entitled mother who made this demand. Keep scrolling to read what it was…

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    Entitled mom demanded I give up my grocery cart after I had already checked out

    This happened last week at my local Kroger and I still can't believe the nerve of some people. I had just finished doing a pretty big grocery run. The
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    cart was full, pantry stuff, milk, diapers, cat food, the works. I go through self-checkout, bag everything up, and start pushing the cart toward the
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    exit when this woman comes power-walking up to me like she's on a mission. She tells me she needs my cart.
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    Not asking. Telling. And then she actually reaches for the handle. I pull it back and tell her I'm still using it, since it's, you know, full of groceries. She sighs loudly and says she
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    can't find a cart anywhere and her toddler is melting down. Then she says I look like I'm almost done anyway and asks me to just leave it for her.
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    Again, cart still full. I tell her I need it to get everything to my car. She rolls her eyes and starts going on about how some people are
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    so selfish and how hard it is to shop with a kid. I'm holding a box of diapers with a car seat in the cart, so like... yeah, I get it.
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    Right then, a store employee sees what's happening and walks over. She asks if everything is okay. The woman immediately starts complaining that the store
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    never has carts and now she has to wait while selfish people hog them. The employee just kind of stares, then tells me to have a good day.
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    I push my cart past the lady while she glares at me like I just kicked her dog.
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    Pretty sure she didn't notice the employee behind her bringing in a line of carts from the parking lot.
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    TLDR Lady demanded my full grocery cart because hers was crying. Called me selfish when I wouldn't give it up, while a fresh set of carts was literally being wheeled in behind her.
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    Shoddy Move6054 I swear some people think public spaces operate on main character rules. Like ma'am, your crisis doesn't make my cart your property.
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    Ystebad Hold the cart and repeat "My precious" while looking sideways at her.
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    Ambitious_Rate2414 When my kid was a toddler, I always parked near to a cart corral so I could get her seated as soon as possible.
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    Virtual-Squirrel-358 That's actually crazy as if you're suppose to magically carry all cart full worth of stuff in one hand back to your car idc if you had just one item in your cart at that point, she was very r de to just think she could snatch your stuff up
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    ReactionEither6684 Gotta love when people say things like some people don't understand what it's like having kids... to someone with kids.
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    Cutekitens7 I don't get the issue. Just teleport your items to your car like the rest of us /s
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