Customers shopping at discount stores often come with tight budgets and unique requests.

But one customer’s explanation for why she wanted cat food left one retail employee baffled to their core.

You’ll want to read on for this one.

Can I use SNAP to purchase cat food?

OK, I work at a popular discount store.

This lady asks me if she can use her food stamps to buy cat food.

I tell her she can’t.

She asks me why not? I told her it’s for human food only.

Then this customer says the craziest thing yet.

Then she says she’s planning on eating the cat food.

I again told her it’s only for people food.

She tells me cat food is all she can afford, so that’s what she wants to buy.

The employee tries to reason with this customer.

I told her we have many food options for people in our store that also cost the same as the cat food.

Seeing as how it’s a discount store, everything’s the same price.

The customer’s request seems to make little sense.

Also, food has no tax, but pet food does, so she would save 9 cents.

This went on and on.

Finally, the customer left with some human food, but the cashier was left incredibly baffled.

She eventually bought human food with her food stamps—of which she had well over $190.00 worth—and bought cat food with cash.

I can’t believe I had to have this conversation.

Why do some people insist on making things harder than they need to be?

What did Reddit think?

Apparently what you can and can’t buy on food stamps is a big source of conflict in some retail stores.

This fellow retail worker has dealt with many customers like this.

It’s sad to remember that food stamps are all some needy customers have.

The customer left with her items, but the strange debate lingered far after she was gone.

This may go down in history as the strangest request this employee has ever received.

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