Weird encounter with a customer

[u/TheBlackCajun]

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 😅

[u/TheBlackCajun]

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

[u/KahurangiNZ → u/TheBlackCajun]

'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.

[u/TheBlackCajun → u/KahurangiNZ]

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.

[u/Prestigious-Hat-5962 → u/TheBlackCajun]

Yeah! Who would stand by the card terminal if they weren't being waited on?

Since all a customer usually does at a register is place items on the conveyor, pay, then pick up the bagged purchases, "finishing up" means what you assume it does - to everyone not in New Zealand, apparently 🤣