If you work retail what is your worst/funniest customer?

I work at Staples and this guy came in today asking questions about best buy's geek squad then left his garbage around the store because staples "owes him a lot of money." Then he reached his hand over the counter and dropped his stuff there while he went to the door and started talking on the phone.

So my manager grabs his bags and tells him "We can't be responsible for your things." and gives him his bags and he turns back with "Where do you want me to put my bags? ON MY HEAD?!" getting loud like the yo-yo he is.

Then we ask him to leave and before he leaves he tells my manager he is going to "poison her ice cream."

What an interesting day. Any other good story's?

Back when I was working in a cinema, we used to get a woman coming in every day at 11am, where she'd buy a ticket to a film and go from screen to screen for a few minutes before going to the toilet, throwing up and leaving. jimmyjammer69

Back when I was working in a cinema, we used to get a woman coming in every day at 11am, where she'd buy a ticket to a film and go from screen to screen for a few minutes before going to the toilet, throwing up and leaving. jimmyjammer69

I work in an electrical store.

I regularly get asked for HDM1 cables (instead of HDMI)

TVs with integral DVD players (instead of Intergrated).

The best one was.... "if it possible to plug a portable DVD player into a surround sound system?"

I once had a customer who wanted to buy a single beer. The single beer costed 2.99 That was so much for him. So he thought if he went to a different check out line it would cost less :?

Used to work at Old Navy, the clothing store. People would buy underwear, take them home, prolly try it on, and come in the next day and try to return it. Pants and shirts, I can understand, but underwear??

I work at an Italian carryout resteraunt, and I have to cater to this b**** who demands her food her way. She always asks for Linguine with olive oil, green olives, tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach, and artichoke. The linguine must be chewy, not soft, and not hard. The breadsticks must have butter evenly spread on them, no really buttery spots. The salad cannot contain onions, but must have the proper amount of croutons. And if I mess up the tiniest thing, she'll call back to complain, and tell me I'm not worthy of my job, and that I should be reprimanded by my boss, who's an ass. I hate that picky old hag. I can't wait till I'm about to quit so I can tell her she can go F herself when she gives me her order.

there's this one dude that comes in a lot, he's cool as hell. i don't really have any stories about him, but he's always just cool and stuff.

People that dont know anything about beer. Or lack an appreciation for real beer

I work at a brewery and because of our small size I generally have to tend bar for a couple hours a day. Well, every now and then we get tourists, specifically people from the Central Valley, CA (Modesto, Bakersfield, **** Fresno, etc) and this is like the Budweiser Belt, people, these people know nothing of beer except dingo piss (Coors, Miller, Bud).

So they'll come in and have some beer tastings. Anyway, I got this one customer and I give him our lightest beers; a wheat beer, a cream ale. I also give him a couple dark ones like a stout and a brown ale.

Anyway he thanks me, but he is not too enthusiastic and is like "Man, those were pretty good, but you know what a good beer is? Bud light with LIME!!!"

I just look at him and laugh.I am a beer snob, I wont lie, but my tolerance for the uneducated masses is fairly high but this guy just reached a point where I couldnt help but think him a fool.

I hate it when people come up to the deli and ask for 1 slice of ham. To do that one slice we have to clean the slicer, find the ham and then slice it just for one slice. Or when people complain about us not having strawberries, or their price. We at store level do not set price, and we cannot control the weather in another state to make sure there is ample supple of strawberries for you.