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Making it into a store before closing doesn’t mean you suddenly have all night to shop.

Yet, in today’s story, one retail worker encountered a customer who held this very belief.

As the minutes passed by, the employees made several announcements over the loudspeaker, and they even reminded him in person that he could come back the next day.

Still, he kept shopping. That is, until a cashier finally told him that he needed to check out.

Unfortunately, he didn’t take that very well and started throwing the amount of money he spends at the store in her face.

Read on to see how the whole thing played out.

Customer thinks that because he shops at our store so much, he should be able to shop past the time we close

We’ve all had those customers who come in pretty close to closing to shop. I’m also pretty sure we’ve had those people who think that they have all the time in the world to shop just because they made it into the store before the doors shut.

However, that is not the case.

If you’re a couple of minutes past closing, that’s usually fine, but it’s not when you plan to spend another 15 minutes or so longer.

At closing time, the man was still shopping.

So, around five minutes to closing time at the store I work at, there was still one customer shopping with a grocery cart. He is a regular customer.

The fifteen-minute and five-minute closing announcements had been done. When we do the five-minute announcement, we politely ask that all customers still in the store bring up their items so that we can finish up our closing procedures and go home.

Usually, us cashiers aren’t too bad about late shoppers who are cutting it close, but it was really annoying to see someone with a full cart still strolling around.

The time we closed came around, and we had to do a, “We’re officially closed, please bring your items up to the front,” kind of announcement, and this guy kept on walking. The people in grocery reminded him that we were closing and that he could come back tomorrow to get the last things he was missing, but he ignored them.

When confronted, the man got very defensive.

Eventually, my coworker on till told the man that we were closed and that she would ring his groceries through. He turned to her and said, “Do you know how much money I spend at your store?”

She replied, “I understand, but we are still closed, and we have to ask you to pay for the groceries you have now and come back tomorrow.”

Thankfully, the man finally went through her till, though he was still pretty annoyed that he had been asked to leave. He complained a bit more, but my coworker kindly explained that when we’re closed, we have a couple more things that need to be done after all the customers are out, and we unfortunately won’t be paid overtime.

Wow! Talk about a rude person.

Let’s see how the readers over at Reddit feel about what this guy did.

That probably is tempting.

Good point.

This person would’ve definitely told the guy.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about an employee who makes his boss regret firing him for failing to take the blame for someone else’s error.

It sounds good in theory, but would probably cause a lot of extra work for employees.

He really started pushing his luck.

Being a regular customer is great and all, but that doesn’t mean you can just inconvenience the employees when you want.

They gave him plenty of warning, so really, he had no excuse not to just listen.

If anything, being a regular should mean not wanting to embarrass yourself. Apparently, this guy didn’t understand that.