Cashiers of Reddit, do you judge us customers by the products or quantity of products we buy? What are some stereotypes?
I worked in a small convenience store in a small town so about 60% of my customers were “regulars”.
They were always pleased and surprised when I had their cigarettes waiting for them or reminded them they hadn’t asked for ice if they normally got ice every day.
With teens buying condoms I tried to be extra “I’m not noticing what you’re buying” because some 16 year olds kind of cringe buying condoms from a 50-something woman.
Kudos to you young man!!
I’d have paid for them if I thought that would increase the number buying them.
The only time I ever felt the need to comment on someone’s purchase was a guy buying one six pack of Stella and a bunch of Milwaukee Best.
I paused.
And then had to ask if he had a friend he didn’t like that wanted to share beer or what the hell?
He said he drank the Stella and then once he was drunk he might as well drink piss.
I congratulated him on his cost effectiveness.
Not at all.
We serve so many people and handle so many products, we will already have forgotten what you bought by the time we're serving the next customer.
Having said that, I had an internal chuckle at how common it was for people to buy condoms and pregnancy tests at the same time.
As a previous late night cashier at both safeway, wawa, and papa johns, I care very little about what you are buying, honestly.
Doesn't cross my mind in the slightest.
How much longer I have to sit in that hell hole was usually my main thought.
3 more hours, beep more hour?
I guess I can manage.
The fact that you're buying a triple pepperoni double anchovy large pizza all for yourself at 3 am?
I really don't care actually, can u just stop coming at 3 am so I don't have to be here that late
I used to work at a drug store through college and hardly ever found myself judging anyone’s purchases.
Sometimes they’d buy a really tacky perfume and spritz it twenty times on themselves before leaving but that wasn’t really a judgment on their purchase
I will say though, to any people who feel weird about it, we aren’t judging you for buying rubbers (condoms)!
You don’t have to feel scared to walk up with the box, we’re just happy you’re being safe and ten times outta ten, I wasn’t even paying attention
Edit: added a word
I worked at a CVS back when I was 19 during summer in College.
The only customers I ever judged were those "extreme couponers" - people with 20 different membership cards buying a chain of beep in 60 different transactions and holding up the line for 30 minutes.
Other than that I don't care.
Only time I interrupted a customer was a guy who was trying to buy a tiny bottle of baby oil and condoms, and only because oil based lubricants degrade latex.
Hopefully I saved him from child support.
I was a cashier during highschool and a brief stint in my mid twenties.
Didn't judge.
You want the *Left Behind* series?
Great.
You want "James Patterson's" newest book?
Fine.
You want *50 Shades of Grey*?
Grand.
Just don't be rude, and listen to the spiel cashiers are required to give on whatever product the company wants them to push.
Just say "No thank you".
Don't go on about how "I already donate to a charity" or saying "no" before they even open their mouths.
I worked in a book store for several years and I absolutely judged people who insisted on paying in exact change, especially when there was a line.
I actually had an older lady count out 195 pennies for a book mark once only to come up a couple short and pay for it with a five.
I used to work at a cigarette store and I wouldn't judge the product but I would judge the beep out of you if you were vague about your order.
The cigarettes are on a rack behind the counter so I had to pick them out for people.
And at least once a shift we'd get people who need to FILL OUT SOME beep VARIBLES.
"Hey, pack a marbs."
"Ok, Your verboseness, marb reds?"
"No, marb lights."
"Here you go..."
"No, marb light hundreds (longer cigarettes)"
"Alright, here you go"
"No, Marb light hundreds, the grey ones"
"Marb ultralight hundreds?"
"Yeah"
"Here you go"
"No, I want a carton of them"
"WELL beep ME I DIDNT EVEN BRING MY beep MIND-SCANNER TODAY, SO YOU MIGHT HAVE TO USE YOUR TOBACCO STAINED
BURGER CHUTE TO COMMUNICATE THAT TO ME YOU AMBULATORY LARD CONDOM.
WILL YOU BE USING CASH OR CARD TODAY AND WOULD YOU LIKE A BAG?!"
I don’t know if this counts, since I only cashier at a McDonald’s, but!
I *personally* don’t really judge anyone based on a money standpoint.
However, I have made assumptions about people based on what they order.
Fillet-o-Fish people are almost always either old, rude, or both.
Pretty much every worst customer we’ve ever gotten has ordered a fillet.
So if you come through and this is your order, I’m probably going to be very careful around you.
Same for Diet Coke with lemon people.
Y’all are usually
pampered as beep This isn’t always the case, though; a lot of these customers are very polite.
If you order a McDouble and hot n spicy as the main dishes, nine times out of ten, you’re a high school boy.
These people are also usually unnecessarily loud?
Not sure what that correlation is.
If you have a big, loud truck, you are probably going to get either a large Big Mac meal, or a large quarter pounder meal.
Sometimes a large double quarter.
You’re probably going to get either a coke or a Diet Coke.
Doctor pepper if you’re adventurous.
Those who order ten piece nugget combos are either usually teenagers or young adults.
Your sauce says more about you than the actual nuggets, though.
I can also usually tell what type of customer you are by what drink you get.
This isn’t always accurate, though, since we only have eight drinks to offer.
But, uh, side note: Fanta orange people are virtually always a party.
I have no idea what y’all are up to.
If you want your fries well done and/or no salt, you’re probably either older or just... angry?
A lot of our rudest customers have
been over this specifically.
Not sure why this is?
I could give a run down of every drink and every item, but we’d be here forever.
I do eventually want to make a post about it, though.
Obviously this is not always correct.
It’s just my usual experience, and I do my best not to change how I treat people based on their order.
Fillet-o-Fish orders with well done, no salt fries and a Diet Coke with lemon?
We fear you.
I worked in a liquor store in 1991.
This scraggly guy came in and got a 6-pack of Miller High Life cans.
Now, this liquor store was in a nice part of town and most customers were genuine twats.
This guy was polite, smiled, and was the first (all day) to treat me like a human.
I had been hit hard all day with assholes.
I looked at him and smiled and told him, genuinely, to have a great day, that he’d been my nicest customer today.
He nodded and took his change.
Then my manager comes running up.
He pulled me to the window.
This guy got into a limo.
My manager: “You didn’t know who that was?”
Me: “He was nice.
Got Miller High Life cans.”
My manager: “That was f**king Neil Young.”
Me: .......
That I didn’t recognize him.
That he was the one guy who was nice to me that day.
I totally judge him internally on his beer choice when he first stepped up.
Sorry, Neil.
But also, thanks for being a good human to me on a
crappy day.
Generally we barely notice and we don’t care.
The only thing that would make me judge what you were buying was if it were somehow related to your beep behaviour or personality.
For example, people who buy cigarettes and lottery can sometimes be very rude about it, saying things like “give me a package of x brand” or “give me two plays on tonight’s draw.” Idk why but ask any cashier who sells these items regularly and they’ll confirm it’s a thing.
So would I notice someone buying nothing but cigarettes and lotto, no.
Would I notice it is they're being an asshole... yup.
If you’re asking do we make fun of people who buy like 20 packs of condom and lube and nothing else, or 50 enemas on flyer deal (I have sold these exact quantities of these exact items before) the answer is no.
Do I remember it, obviously.
But it’s not something I’d make a point of being a jerk about to the customer or to my coworker later.
It’s like whatever.
Former cashier, I honestly never even really noticed what you were buying.
As soon as I scanned and bagged it, it was out of my mind.
The only thing that would stick with me was the whole rotisserie chickens we sold because they smelled great and after a long shift someone would inevitably be buying like *four* of the beep things and all I could think of "they wouldn't notice one missing, if I just like...unhinge my jaw and consume it whole...that's possible right?"
Worked at a gas station for 2+ years
Only judge you if you're a dick.
Like if you're always an asshole, and you smell bad, and it's 9 AM and you're getting 3 packs of Marb Reds and 10 x $1 tall boys of Molson Ice, then yes.
Or if you're old enough to be my grandpa, acting like your beep doesn't stink cuz you drive a base model BMW, all you get is a Fiji water and you throw your money at me, yep.
Judging you as well.
Never understood that.
Most 18 year olds start off at a beep job.
Like just bc you're 35 years into your career doesn't mean you're better than the kid who just got their first job a year or 2 ago.
I always judged all of the above as worthless humans who do nothing but detract from the remainder of the populations' quality of life.
I love seeing them around town now that I'm not paid to "serve them", give a beep or use formalities.
Lol.
Got my revenge a couple times when I saw the same miserable humans at other places in town, giving the cashiers a hard time.
It felt awesome.
I work at mcdonald's.
i don't judge unless you're just an asshole.
nearly got fired bc i accidentally stepped on some random dudes shoes and he decided that me saying sorry wasn't enough and that he wanted me to get down on my knees and brush his shoes off since i'd "scuffed" them.
I told the prick that it wasn't gonna happen and he insisted on making a scene and pushing me so i grabbed him by his shirt collar and dragged him outside.
when i let go he tried to swing at me so i closed the door and locked it.
so yea unless your a prick i don't judge.
Not really, mostly on how you interact with us, sometimes about how you pay.
If you are a jerk, obvious judgement.
Ex: tells customer the machine must fill out check but they insist on taking 5 minutes to slowly fill it out when I have a terribly long line.
The man who only ever paid in quarters.
Seriously, so many questions.
Time I judged on items: person was returning a ton of disposable razor packages, said she bought her daughter the wrong one.
Ok.... As I was getting the receipts ready to give
back to her, I saw she used a coupon on all the razors to get them for free.
Damn scam.
I worked at a hardware store for about a year while I was in college.
Now, you're thinking, *"Pfft, a hardware store, what's to judge?
"* Oh, I shall tell you.
* When tweaker-looking individuals come in and buy a bunch of various chemicals, while clearly holding a CVS bad filled with various cold remedies... You know they're cooking meth.
* When teenagers come in, buy up a bunch of moth balls or naptha powder, various cast iron pipe parts, drill bits, and candle wick... You know they're making pipe bombs
* When some frumpy looking generally-disheveled woman
comes in and asks for "whatever chemical eats paint the fastest..." you know her ex boyfriend is in for a bad night
* When some old woman and her husband come in, the husband refuses to talk, and the old woman says "I need something to remove a really bad ingrown toenail" you know who has the problem.
5 minutes later when they meander on up with Dremel bits, you know he's spending the night in the ER.
* When some shady looking individual buys bolt cutters with cash, refuses to touch the receipt, and then leaves quickly, you know your entire snowblower and lawnmower section is about to
get stolen from the front of the store... (and yes, it happened!)
* When you ask someone if they need help, they tell you they are fixing their brake lines, and you explain to them that compression fittings are not a safe way to repair brake lines, and they tell you off... you know they're going to get in an accident later and you don't want to be around them
* When someone goes to return a sump pump, claims it didn't work, but it's covered in water and sediment... you know they are a lying sack of crap, along with the other 499 lying sacks of crap that returned their sump pumps conveniently a day after the flooding subsided.
God no, buy what you want.
Just dont get in the 15 items or less lane with like fifty items.
I personally don't care, but it's not fair to the other customers.
My wife and I use self checkout, and I assure you I do in fact judge her.
As a picker at Amazon, yes.
Y'all freaky.
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