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By Anonymous - 16/09/2014 05:04 - United Kingdom - Bristol

Today, a customer told me that there was no way he was paying for his shopping. He then walked off. As it turns out, the customer IS always right. FML

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By cassiebee - 04/11/2012 14:16 - United States - Morgan

Today, at work I was trying to be nice and give a customer a discount because she was having trouble finding money to pay for her food. Everybody behind her then demanded a discount as well. FML

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By ishouldhavebeenbornrich - 14/09/2016 16:28

Today, at work, a man wanted to buy a garden hose which came up on the till as £1.99. He said that it was wrong and that it should be £1.89, so he then demanded that I called someone down to set it right. He held 20 customers up for 15 minutes to get 10p off a garden hose. FML

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NYM88 26

Tuesday 16 September 2014 19:02

Guess who's getting free groceries tonight!

markcallanan_ 20

Tuesday 16 September 2014 19:03

I'd say call your manager or maybe cops, even though he's long gone

Comments

worldclassrager 39

Tuesday 16 September 2014 20:52

So what exactly happened to what at intended to be purchased?

JaneEffinLane 7

Tuesday 16 September 2014 20:58

Employee of the month.

HarleyQuinn9532 7

Tuesday 16 September 2014 21:02

I used to work in a supermarket and had a couple of customers like that... It sucks but you just have to bite your tounge and take the customers shit!!!

battlehamster 8

Tuesday 16 September 2014 21:14

Challenge accepted! I'm sure there are many ways he could be made to pay.

Jmtpink 3

Tuesday 16 September 2014 21:33

Didn't the alarm go off?

Britt125 16

Tuesday 16 September 2014 22:17

Not everywhere has alarms, and even the places that do people can usually just keep walking and get away with it as most places also don't allow staff to go after shoplifters... it's really nothing more than a scare tactic but most people determined to steal will do so anyway especially if they were already bold enough to tell an employee they were going to. So even if they had one and it went off it doesn't mean anything.

pipkinrahl 2

Tuesday 16 September 2014 22:04

in the states we call that shoplifting

Britt125 16

Tuesday 16 September 2014 22:23

Customers are just stupid and they will pull shit like this from time to time. It happened at my last job a few times, I've seen it happen at other stores while I've been shopping. Sucks but it's part of dealing with the public. It's not right, but it happens, not worth stressing over it.

grunt_fml 17

Tuesday 16 September 2014 23:08

Just to make this clear for me - he actually walked off with stuff he did not pay for? Uhm, were exactly is the difference to "stealing" here? And why the hell am I still paying for anything? And why is he considered a "customer" when he is not paying?

EvilLittleMan 23

Wednesday 17 September 2014 0:06

Could that be referred to as "Low Level Looting."

Witchylady 17

Wednesday 17 September 2014 1:06

I really despise that slogan. "The customer is always right". A lot of the times the rude obnoxious ones get away with things because of that stupid idea businesses have about customers coming first. I didn't know theft was also part of the policy.