16 Crazy Stories From The Checkouts: A Roundup Of Memorable Encounters From The Front Lines Of Retail!
Dear readers,
The checkout: the front lines of retail! If you’re working the checkout you’ll have more encounters with customers than anyone else, and therefore you’ll have the craziest stories to tell! In fact, we have so many that we’ve done roundups from the checkouts twice before – but the customers keep coming back crazier!
We’ve rounded up sixteen crazy stories from the Not Always Right archives about the memorable and zany things that checkout clerks have to put up with all day every day!
Psst… The Sun Gives You Cancer, Too – Sounds like their laser focus has been on fake news.
Leave Your Baggage At The Checkout – Never bet against a checkout worker… they’ve seen things.
This Is Why We’re In A Recession, Part 11 – Customers are simple people: they see cash, they want it.
Mission: Impossible, Part 2 – In receipt of a bad attitude.
Oooh, I’m Quaking In My Boots – If the customer is having a bad day there’s no way they’re not going to make it your fault…
To Have And To Hang Up – Say what you will about having a personal phone at the checkout, but this one is weird!
Short Changing Your Mind – Does smoking cause brain damage?
Damaged Goods, And We’re Not Talking Groceries – When the bread is there to be the padding.
Phoney Answers – Working the checkout too long makes you see things that aren’t there…
Living On The Edge, Part 2 – When they line up but they can’t go out of line.
My Parents Threatened To Do This Monthly – If it’s an old dad joke, then a checkout clerk has heard it a hundred times before.
Barcode Overload – Wait until they see QR codes!
Zombies Need Retail Assistance Too – This is where you laugh nervously and back away slowly.
One Baby Or Less Aisle – Please refer to our point three stories up ⬆️
Bucharettuce – This lettuce isn’t American but it has indefinite leave to romaine.
Not Thinking Inside The Box, Part 2 – When you’re checking out Pandora.
We hope you enjoyed this roundup about crazy encounters at the checkout! Want to send in your own story? Submit your story here!
Some other roundups to check out if you liked this one:
12 More Worryingly Weird Checkout Encounters!
10 Crazy Stories About How Customer’s Problems Were So Stupid They Resolved Themselves
