Target A-hole Customer Gets Told

This week's Retail Balls Award goes to Joseph Benjamin from San Antonio...

I work at Target. It was January 2007. I'm ringing this guy up, he's at about $150, and I'm placing some pears he has on the scale to weigh them.

It comes out to $1.46.

The guy yells - yes, he yells - "Hey, I saw that! Why don't you take your hands off the scale and run that again!"

I said, "Sir, my hands were nowhere near the scale, but, I'll run it again anyway."

I ring up the pears, with my hands held in the air like I was being robbed.

The price? $1.46.

I let it go, and don't say a thing. Everything is fine until I hand the guy the reciept, saying "Thank you, have a good night sir."

He replies, "What? is Target a bag-it-yourself store?"

I said to him, "No sir, I've bagged them. Target is a put-your-own-bags-in-your-own-cart store."

His face turns red and he asks to see the manager. My line was building up, so i said, "Sir, I have 2 managers, they're both on lane 18. Pick one, and have a goodnight."

He whips back with, "You're somethin' else! I'm never shopping here again!!!"

In a calm voice, I replied, "Well, sir, at least we'll both be happy."

The man looked right at me, turned his head and his cart towards the exit, and walked out. I haven't seen him since, and it's been almost a year-and-a-half.

..and yes, I'm still happy...

Great job Joseph! RHU salutes your Retail Balls!  And you didn't even swear! Carolanne and Freddy would have gotten a time out and been written up for sure.

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Comments

[Freddy]

Thanks for sending this Joseph!

[Ivanka Trump]

I'm so sorry, I should have never let my father going shopping alone that day..

[Regan]

That is fucking AWESOME! You know those kind of customers NEVER actually bitch about their "horrible experience" b/c they know they were being complete assholes. How many people actually will say I'm never shopping here again and MEAN it lol. Well apparently he did. Haha.

[Leyla]

Bravo! Why should we have to fucking put their bags IN their cart too. God. Fucking degenerates.

[Ashley]

PWNED in the sweetest way possible!