This Is Getting Bananas!

I’m a supervisor at a grocery store. Back in the day, and I mean way back, our company had a policy where kids could get a free piece of fruit while parents shopped. However, because people kept taking advantage of it, that promotion was officially scrapped over five years ago.

This lady walks in, grabs a banana off the shelf, and hands it to her kid. When she gets to the register, the cashier asks her to pay for it. She immediately gets defensive, claiming it’s free for kids.

I stepped in to explain that the policy ended years ago. Her response was blaming us for not notifying her that the promo ended. However, when the promo was active, there was a specific stand with smaller fruit. She just grabbed a regular one from the main display.

After being told no, she marched back to the shelf, grabbed the biggest banana she could find, had it weighed, and paid for it out of spite. We didn’t even ask her to do that; we were fine chalking it up to a misunderstanding, but she just went away and did it.

Then things got weird.

She started demanding to know how long the other supervisor and I had worked for the company. We’re both just looking at each other like, “What does this have to do with the price of a banana?”

She then hunts down the store manager to grill him on his start date, too. Despite everyone telling her the same thing, she insisted we were all wrong and that the fruit is supposed to be free.

She ended her tantrum by screaming that she’s going to post us all on social media because we’re incompetent and can’t do our jobs. Lady, there is no signage, no shelf, and no policy. You’re literally fighting for a promotion that died in 2021. Good luck with the Facebook post!