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Some shopping requests sound perfectly reasonable until they involve casually wheeling unpaid merchandise through the parking lot.

Could one customer simply take her half-full grocery cart outside to browse the garden section?

Instead of recognizing the obvious security problem, she seemed baffled when an employee offered two perfectly sensible alternatives.

Let’s see how this one went down.

Um, no, you can’t take your groceries out into the parking lot before paying for them…

It was at the start of the spring gardening season.

My everything store had just started up with the plants, soil, and all the things that you need to hopefully make your own food.

The garden center is kind of weird.

You can get some things in a large, covered greenhouse area, and the rest is in the parking lot.

It sounds kind of confusing.

Now, there are a lot of people buying dirt, but they usually just buy that at register.

I’m not in garden, so I have less of an idea exactly what the breakdown is.

Some trees and plants are in the parking lot, and I’m assuming the more expensive stuff is in the garden center.

A customer asked this employee if she can walk through the parking lot with her unpaid groceries.

Well, I was walking to break when a customer with a half full cart of groceries asked something.

They said would it be okay to just go through the parking lot to go look at the things outside because the garden center was apparently closed.

This kind of threw me off for a second.

How would anyone think it would be okay to go outside with their groceries unpaid for?

The customer gave her a funny look when she said no.

Sure, she was probably telling the truth, but she would likely get stopped by security.

After all, a grocery cart going out unpaid for looks just the same as our usual shoplifters.

I told her she could leave her cart to go out and look, or she could pay for what she had and then return with any outside items and finish shopping.

The look I got for that idea! It was like she just couldn’t see what the problem was.

She didn’t want to take a chance and give shoplifters the wrong idea.

I’m not sure maybe the locked door was preventing her from getting into the garden center, or maybe it was stopping her from exiting the garden center into the parking lot.

I suspect the latter.

Shoplifters have it easy enough as it is. I definitely don’t want to start giving people permission to run around the parking lot with full carts of merchandise.

I just don’t get some people.

That was not a reasonable request.

Let’s see what others have to say about this on Reddit.

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Here’s a valid point from this user.

This person shares a similar experience.

Short and simple.

Here’s a hilarious comment. Lol.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a craft store customer who refuses to take no for an answer when it comes to wrapping his purchases for gifts.

And lastly, this user shares their personal thoughts.

This shopper wanted permission to take an unpaid cart outside, where employees couldn’t distinguish her innocent browsing from ordinary shoplifting.

The worker suggested leaving the groceries behind or paying first, but both reasonable options earned an offended stare.

She wasn’t stealing, just performing an extremely convincing dress rehearsal.

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Chris Allen