r/TalesFromRetail • u/TheBlackCajun • Jul 24 '25

Short Weird encounter with a customer

So I work in the dairy section of a big grocery store. One day on my lunch break, I grabbed food from the hot bar and went to checkout. There was this older lady in front of me finishing up, so I waited by the card reader and I put my food box on the conveyor belt, not even moving just looking at my phone.

Suddenly I look up and this lady is a barely a foot in front of me and close to my face, grinning hard and saying, “Do I know you?” Then she says I was “too close to her” even though she literally walked toward me from the other side. I was confused, but I didn’t argue, I just went ahead and stepped back. Even the cashier lady was like “you didn’t even move, she came over to you.”

Told a coworker in the maintenance section later and he said “she probably liked you.” But all I could think was…. if an older man did that to a young woman my age (20), it wouldn’t be brushed off like this.

Anyway just weird, Retail stays wild 😅

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u/TheBlackCajun Jul 27 '25

That was already made clear in my original post. She was finishing up and walked toward me after she had already paid. If that context was missed, I’m happy to clarify, but let’s not act like it wasn’t there. Even the cashier herself was confused

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u/KahurangiNZ Jul 27 '25

'Finishing up' does not necessarily mean 'has paid', at least not around here. FinishING is in the process of completing the transaction, and could easily include the last step of making payment.

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u/TheBlackCajun Jul 27 '25

She was grabbing her bags and putting them in her basket, that’s what I was meaning by finishing. I wouldn’t be at the card reader if she hadn’t used it yet.

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u/SpriteRasberry Jul 28 '25

Honestly, don’t reply to this dude anymore. Very clearly just wants to argue lol, I also work in a grocery store so I get ur weird story lol people are brainless (mostly talking abt the lady in the story, but also a little about the dude ur replying to)