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Retail workers expect carts to wander across parking lots, but rarely into the back of moving trucks.

How exactly does a shoeless accomplice loading carriages into a U-Haul become part of closing duties?

That strange customer tip sent employees calling managers, neighboring stores, and eventually the police.

This new hire’s first month certainly delivered.

“Is it normal for a U-Haul to be picking up your carriages in the parking lot?”

I started working at a large U.S. clothing/department store that sits in a plaza with a bunch of other big retail locations about a month ago, and tonight I was doing a closing shift until 11.

We have two sets of registers, one on either side of the store.

The last customer to come through my line came through around 10:20.

But here’s where the shift turned weird.

It was a married couple, and as they’re putting their things on the counter, the husband asks me if it’s normal for a U-Haul to be driving around the parking lot and picking up our carriages.

It seemed weird at first, but then the husband mentioned that it was a guy driving the van and a girl with no shoes was getting out and picking up the carts.

They finished checking out and left. I turned to the first associate I saw and told her.

They couldn’t help but chuckle at the sheer absurdity.

She laughed a little at the circumstances, and we immediately called our shift supervisor, who then called over one of the managers.

I reiterated the story and they stepped outside to see the U-Haul across the plaza at another store.

It caused quite a stir in the store.

The shift supervisor called that store to tell them to keep an eye out, and the manager got ahold of the license plate number and called the cops.

There was a lot of back and forth going on over the associate walkie talkies.

So soon the employees got a front row seat to a dramatic scene.

By 10:55, the cops had ahold of the people taking our carriages. We got our carts back and they were still talking with the manager, meanwhile there were still a bunch of us cleaning.

By 11:10, I was clocked out and walking out with some of my coworkers as the cops were patting them down and placing them under arrest.

I suppose the stories can only get better from here.

What a bizarre turn of events.

What did Reddit think?

These didn’t exactly seem like the smartest customers.

But maybe they just wanted to scrap the parts?

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Maybe they really could get some money out of them.

A customer alerted the cashier to two people collecting store carts with a U-Haul, prompting management to contact police and recover them.

By closing time, the suspects were being searched and arrested while the employees casually finished cleaning the store.

YIKES. They tried turning a moving truck into a mobile cart corral.