Tag: TalesFromRetail

December 10, 2025 at 11:35 am

Retail Employee Had To Ask A Rude Customer To Go Grab An Item In Her Car So She Could Help Her, But Then She Got A Phone Call From The Customer

Employee of jewelry store behind counter

Always investigate the situation first.

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December 9, 2025 at 9:48 pm

Woman Who Has Just Started Her First Retail Job Encountered Her First Rude Customer, But When She Called The Manager, Other Customers Were Kind

Woman wearing glasses in clothing store

This young Padawan has a lot to learn.

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December 8, 2025 at 1:55 pm

Barista Serves Dozens Of Coffee Drinks A Day, But A Customer Demands That She Bring Her “The Usual” Even After She Explains That She Doesn’t Remember It

Woman barista holding coffee cup

This is not a bar and you’re not Norm Peterson, lady.

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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 pm

Home Depot Customer Was Talking To A Ryobi Rep And Got Mistaken For An Employee, And The Woman Kept Insisting To Be Helped Because The Customer Had Keys

Home Depot store front

You shall pass!

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November 15, 2025 at 6:48 pm

Woman Buying A Laptop At Best Buy Was Wearing A Blue Shirt, So While An Employee Was Helping Her, A Customer Assumed They Were Both Employees Ignoring Him

Woman wearing blue shirt and cap

Don’t blame the employees if an establishment is understaffed.

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November 2, 2025 at 2:35 pm

Assistant Manager Told A Customer To Pick Up His Trash After He Dumped It In The Parking Lot, And He Sped Off Angry When She Refused To Back Down

Bag of fast food trash laying in the middle of a parking lot

That guy had a lot of nerve!

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November 1, 2025 at 11:55 pm

Woman Is Just Sanitizing Her Shopping Cart Before Entering The Store, But A Man Thinks She Is A Retail Employee Cleaning The Carts For Customers And Tries To Take It

Shopping carts outside

He could have been entitled about it, but he recognized his mistake and didn’t bother her anymore.

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October 30, 2025 at 2:35 pm

Teenage Retail Worker Is On Her Lunch Break At The Store When An Angry Customer Yells At Her To Get Up And Help Him, But She Flat-Out Refuses

Young woman at grocery store

Her response was enough to de-escalate the situation, so it worked well.

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October 26, 2025 at 5:35 am

Delivery Drivers Had To Return A 350-Pound Order, And All Because The Customer Cared More About His Fresh Sod Than Actually Getting His Furniture

Delivery Driver getting out of his white delivery van

It’s easy to see why they left.

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October 26, 2025 at 4:35 am

Employee Watched Three Department Managers Lose Their Jobs In Three Years, And She Recounts What Happened, As Each One’s Exit Was Stranger Than the Last

Woman smiling as she thinks about the crazy reasons her bosses were fired.

That’s life in retail sometimes.

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