What's the most unexpected item you've seen in the bagging area?

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mhoulden@reddit

I still don't understand how someone forgot their walking stick. But then one time I left my motorbike gloves on top of the receipt printer.

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Collide74@reddit

I work in retail and walking sticks are one of the most common things left behind!

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Interesting_Space110@reddit

Walking sticks are a nightmare. I’ve chased so many old people down the street!

Also their shopping… I have so many people just walk away without their shopping…

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mhoulden@reddit

Hopefully they're not too difficult to catch if they don't have their stick.

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waxfutures@reddit

Most of the items I've scanned, apparently.

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Drath101@reddit

I had a guy who had a weight issue because he'd eaten 2 of the raw burgers out of his pack of 4 burgers, that was quite up there

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Flapparachi@reddit

Jesus. Do you get a lot of stuff like that?

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Drath101@reddit

Not anymore because I work an office job. But when I was in retail, yes, that's not even mid-tier on the overall "WTF" scale

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Flapparachi@reddit

One more please? sits cross-legged on the floor

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For weeks we had bottles of oil (like olive oil) turning up empty on the shelves. Now we used to get shoplifted to hell and back but the fact the bottles were empty rather than missing was weird. By pure chance one day we caught them. They had a sort of IV bag type contraption down their trouser leg and a funnel, and they'd pour the oil into this IV bag and walk out with it.

I once got called into the toilets because one was flooded. My staff member didn't decide to elaborate one why. Somebody had removed clean and unsoiled jeans (although nobody had seen anybody walk out with nothing on their bottom half), blocked the toilet with them, taken the worst liquid shit all over the top of said jeans and then repeatedly flushed the toilet until it flooded

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Lower_River_5647@reddit

Yeah when I did a stint on self checkouts I had a guy who brought 10 packs of rice cakes. I remember clearly because I offered to put them through as a bulk and he was quite rude about shooing me off. He then books it with his rice cakes to the bathroom. Comes out without the rice cakes, buys 10 more packs and leaves. I never found out what he did with them tho.

Retail makes you really realise how weird the general public are.

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Rude-Possibility4682@reddit

My mate worked in a store, where every lunch a guy would go to the toilet with a sliver foil wrapped bagutte shaped object. Then later emerge without it. Security thought he was selling drugs,to others in the toilets, and followed him one day. They caught him, coming out off a cubicle after the urinal had been used (and the user had left) breaking off a bit of the baguette, and it around the inside of urinal and then eating it.

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Sniff_Sniffer@reddit

That should be a need to buy something to use the bathroom situation. Can't be coming in with his home made baguette, buy one in the mealdeal FFS at least!

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Lower_River_5647@reddit

What an unfortunate time to be literate 😂 that’s insane

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PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit

Just rice cakes? No fish to go with them?

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Lower_River_5647@reddit

Legit just rice cakes. Like the plain styrofoam type ones.

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PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit

Should've got some frozen white fish to go with them.

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clrthrn@reddit

This is up there with the "Civil Service Mars Bar Shitter" where someone would crap on the toilet seat then bizarrely often add a mini mars bar. Cleaners reported it almost every day for months until a round of redundancies solved the problem.

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Wretched_Colin@reddit

Did you sell clean pairs of jeans also?

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Drath101@reddit

You're asking for too much here mate, it's the soiled jeans or I walk away from this deal

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thehoneybadger1223@reddit

What the damn fuck? Ew

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HilariousMotives@reddit (OP)

Probably had a different kind of weight issue the next day. 🤮💩

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Madsaxmcginn@reddit

It was a mistake to come to Reddit whilst in the throes of morning sickness

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Cheese_Dinosaur@reddit

Have you tried ginger tea? It was a godsend when I was pregnant!

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Madsaxmcginn@reddit

Yes it's been a godsend! And orange ice lollies!

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Cheese_Dinosaur@reddit

Marmite on brown toast has every vitamin in it you need to survive! 🩷

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emoratwh0re@reddit

i experienced chronic nausea and sometimes i'll have cyclic vomiting so i'd like to share with you what works for me! 1. a hot shower, helps with the nausea but but not help with the heating bill 😬 2. apple juice (for some reason) 3. if you can manage to get food down you, i find fast food helps! i think it's the amount of salt in it but it always revives me when im nauseous 😤 i wish you a safe and healthy rest of your pregnancy and childbirth 🫶🫶

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Drath101@reddit

Apologies. Do yourself a favour and don't read my other comment

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Madsaxmcginn@reddit

Oh the morbid curiosity...

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Pedantichrist@reddit

Nothing wrong with steak tartare.

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Accomplished-Salt797@reddit

Dude.

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Drath101@reddit

I looked at him, debated if I had a duty of care to say anything and decided to just ignore it if I'm completely honest

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Aromatic_Boss5695@reddit

Usually something outrageous like my own shopping bag or something I've just scanned.

I had to stop using my nice tote bags because the machines can't comprehend your own bag weighing more than 10 grams. You either have to get a human to approve it, or faff around and bag everything after paying.

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No_Doubt_About_That@reddit

Any packs of crisps and popcorn that actually have its weight properly recognised by the machine.

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lolarentagain@reddit

I was starting to put my shopping through one day when I scanned my first item then went to put it in the bagging area and found someone else's entire basket of shopping on it. I asked the lady using the till beside me if it was hers and she just looked at me blankly and calmly started scanning her items. I told her that's my bagging area but she ignored me (and my till's many wails of displeasure). There was no one around so I had to wait until she was done before I could do my shop -and even then, I had to move her empty basket to the floor!

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LetsAdultTogether@reddit

No spine. The way I would have flung that shit on the floor and then kicked it away from the both of us

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lolarentagain@reddit

I did tut rather loudly!

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LetsAdultTogether@reddit

Wonderful lol

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bumpoleoftherailey@reddit

Not really acting your username there are you? ;-)

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LetsAdultTogether@reddit

Tell that to the other lady in the shop floor

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domambrose96@reddit

Yeah if the other person doesn’t want to open their ears I’ll just put their shopping on the floor and crack on with my day.

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LetsAdultTogether@reddit

Yeah no way would I stand there like a lemon whilst the lady is unhinged and wait for her to finish however long it takes her when her basket DoES NoT belong on my till. Its soo crazy rude

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justbiteme2k@reddit

Should have taken a seat on her bagging area and said, no trouble you'll just wait here till she's done.

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_Yorkshire_Pirlo@reddit

I just saw a thread on r/travelhacks about bringing a lightsaber through customs which I guess might fit the bill lol

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Callum_Cries@reddit

They are probably talking about the ones you can buy at disneyland because I've heard a lot of people have had them taken away. If they haven't been to disneyland then that is pretty weird though.

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Noctemme@reddit

A used nappy, unbagged.

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Moppo_@reddit

From my perspective, every item was expected. It's the machine who is wrong.

Also, people sometimes get stuff from multiple shops in one trip. Why can't I put my bag hslf full from the previous shop on the scales and have it start from zero? Now I have to unload everything from the basket to the scales, and then from the scales to my bag instead of everything going straight into the bag, and not having impatient shoppers behind me.

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splickety-lit@reddit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TmSbCFuPQRk&pp=0gcJCVACo7VqN5tD

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HilariousMotives@reddit (OP)

Is that an intentional parody of Motorpsycho Nightmare by Bob Dylan or did they just randomly nick the melody?

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clrthrn@reddit

Greatest day of my life was when our local Lidl turned off the "unexpected item in bagging area" thing as the time spent dealing with people complaining about the tills cost more then the shoplifting it was preventing. It is bliss in self service now. So no, never because I never have to hear that fucking woman ever ever again!

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DIY_at_the_Griffs@reddit

After doing a night shift I once took each item from my basket and placed them one by one in my bag in the bagging area.

When the basket was empty I went to lay and realised that I hadn’t scanned a single item.

Had to start again.

Tiredness does weird things to you.

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Own-Lecture251@reddit

I once scanned all my shopping and then walked off with the bag without paying. The bloke came running across the car park after me. I blame the weirdness of the first lockdown.

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A_Roll_of_the_Dice@reddit

Or the brainfog from the covid infections 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's well-documented at this point.

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