Someone Asks Cashiers To Share What Items Make Them Silently Judge People Who Buy Them, 50 Respond

I work at a pet store. I judge ppl that get a pet and then buy the cheapest and the most trashy per food there is. A pet is a luxury and costs a lot of money, that's what these ppl don't consider beforehand. If you get yourself one you have to take good care of them and good food is a basic.

I'm not talking about ppl where life happened and are short on money, because this can happen to all of us. Usually those are the ones getting at least something a lil cheaper but still good quality.
Nah, I'm talking about the mf getting a big a*s Rottweiler and buying 15kg of Pedigree for 20€, complaining about the dog being expensive and he's wearing pricy clothing brands from head to toe.

As a waitress I judged the lady who said she needed her steak well done because she had a bad liver and couldn't process rare meat but then proceeded to order a vodka raspberry with her meal.

It was 11:30am

Someone buying donuts, donuts holes and glue.

I worked as a cashier in high school and college. I only remember one combo that a customer brought through my register.

It was a Friday afternoon, and an older gentleman brought up a large, glass jug of red wine, tye biggest tube of KY Jelly we carried, and two potatoes.

I didn't say anything, but I thought to myself "This guy has plans for the weekend."

Not the woman herself or family that may or may not exist, but the system in place that's supposed to take care of her.

She obviously suffers from dementia and it's pretty bad. Throughout the years she has probably spent thousands of dollars on socks because she's "out of socks". She's obviously not but I'm really judging the system that's supposed to take care of people who are this sick. I always try my best to avoid her buying more socks than she initially came for, but other than that there isn't much I can do. So much money down the drain on socks.

Well I don't know about "judgement", as I have my own vices, as most people do, but...

Lottery tickets. I get that gambling addiction is a problem and why, but unlike drinking or other drugs, it seems like so little reward for so much investment. People pissing away in minutes what it would take me all week to earn, right in front of my eyes, not even waiting to leave the store to scratch off a whole stack. Again, not really judgement, I don't know these people or their lives, but certainly the most upsetting on a certain level I feel.

Literally the *only* thing that ever stood out to me was people late at night buying 6+ bottles of non-mint mouthwash. Absolutely 100% of the time they were drinking it.

When I was a cashier on the Express lane, I would silently judge the people that told me to wait while scanning their items to "grab a few more things". Normal lane with a giant cart and only missing one thing is relatively okay, but the express lane? Judgement.

Not a cashier, but this is a fun story. Was in a high end liquor store in LA a few years ago. Guy walks in, goes straight to the cashier and asks for help. He said his boss is a famous rock star, and that he was sent to buy a number of bottles of the best whiskey and scotch they had in the store, but he knows nothing about whisky and scotch. The guy helping him suggests a few bottles in the $50 range, and he keeps saying no. Said his boss would be pissed if he bought stuff that cheap. The cashier gets excited, and goes over to the locked rack...The guy says this was the right stuff, simply because it was expensive. He walks out with at least 10 bottles of booze none of which were less than $500 each. I watch him jam every single bottle into a back pack, and jump on a really nice motorcycle, and speed off.

He paid cash.

My judgement of this guy is that he was not likely lying about working for a famous rock star.

Had a customer buy a pack of condoms and 3 cucumbers. Tried not to judge but damn.

There's a convenience store nearby that prominently sells whip-its, i.e. the little nitrous oxide cylinders nominally intended for whipped-cream dispensers ... which people actually just crack into a balloon, inhale, and get high on.

If I saw someone there buying a few boxes of those, I would judge them as having a high risk of vitamin B12 deficiency. Nitrous oxide will oxidize the B12 right out of your bloodstream. Eventually your nerves get all f****d up.

Folks, even convenience-store drugs are actually drugs and can have side effects. Also, don't freeze your face off.

As a cashier at a clothing department store, I don't have a reason to judge anything they buy. But I do judge the ones who force me to answer stupid questions. I'm amazed of how many people will literally start yelling at workers because we didn't have the exact shorts he wanted. One time, this guy asked me repeatedly if I had his size in the cargo pants he wanted. And loudly too, "no but really, do you have it!?" like over and over and over. His family had to tell him to shut up several times. Like, I'm not holding back from giving you the size, we just don't have it.

I hate when people come up to me and go, "look i really like this but it's like $85, so like... what can you do for me here?" Excuse me, do I work for you now? It's a nike item, I can't just give you discounts because you're bitter about the price.

It’s hard for me to judge any item cause most are pretty tame/ fitting for the person however I do have this one regular… this regular lady comes in multiple times a day and always gets a small bottle of alcohol (like Southern Comfort or Fireball) and she ALWAYS tells me, “I’m marinating chicken, I don’t drink” or other times she tells me, “they are for my husband” and then later in the day she tells me, “I’m so lonely without my husband.” I know she might be going through some stuff but I always think to myself, “I honestly don’t care lady, as long as you pay for it”.

This is going back a while, but I used to cringe inside when people bought those handwash / bodywash brands with all those little microplastic balls for exfoliating purposes.

I'm so glad that fad died out.

My mom has a thing about buying cucumbers. If she needs only cucumbers for a salad or something, for some reason, she feels incredibly embarrassed buying only a cucumber. She will buy other miscellaneous things that she doesn’t need just so that the cashier doesn’t get any wrong ideas.

I guess technically not a cashier, but I check people out sometimes. I work in a high-end cheese shop.

Prima Donna is garbage, you can get it at Shop Rite, it's mass-produced nonsense that has gotten its talons in the Italian-American community even though it's a "gouda" made in Holland, they buy it bc it's Italian sounding and that's what they grew up eating.

(I put "gouda" in quotes bc it's a sham of a cheese that uses quick-ripening starter to mimic the aging process other goudas go through to crystallize).

This was an esoteric rant.

Vaseline, cigarettes, wine, and stool softeners. Was helping father by going to the store to pick up doctor prescribed items for him after he got out of the hospital. I never read the shopping list clearly before I left and didn't put two and two together until I got to the register with my wife who was with me. The young lady cashier blushed and said "You planning for a good evening?" I smiled and smiled yes we are without thinking. The cashier definitely judged us that evening. She would smirk every time we came to the store after that. The whole thing went over my head until I was sitting in the car getting ready to go. My wife looked at me an said that was embarrassing.

I've been a cashier for a year now (but worked in stores for over 2) and honestly I've never really judged someone for the products they're buying. Of course I've been in funny situations.
For example when I still worked in our local drugstore: there was this woman who always came to buy pregnancy tests. Like every week she'd buy at least 4. We made smalltalk for a bit and found out that she wasn't even trying to get pregnant, but she had a lot of pregnancy scares. Fast forward 4 weeks. The lady had been back at least six times since I made smalltalk with her. My coworker also heard why she always came to buy the tests and bluntly said: "ma'am isn't it way cheaper to just buy condoms instead of 4 pregnancy tests per week?" Never saw the lady again
Another story: they sell sex toys at the drug store. You'd be surprised how much people buy em. One day this lady bought this toy and kept making eye contact with the cashier, so it was kinda akward. The the woman proceeded to say to the cashier while awkwardly laughing: "well sometimes your hand isn't enough right? Ha ha ha...." And then she left, only to come back 2 days later to complain abt the toy not being strong enough... Yeah the drugstore was fun

Back in high school I was a cashier at a grocery store. I only remember one purchase.

We had a “hispanic aisle” and one of the top sellers were these tall skinny glass jar candles that had stickers of religious people on them.

An older white guy came in and bought EVERY. SINGLE. LUBE we had in the pharmacy section, and 12 of these candles. Nothing else.

I worked at a music store in the late 90’s. We judged the sh*t out of you.

Are buying the latest bubble gum pop mass media produce c**p? You’ve been Judged!

You buying the latest uninspired gangster rap album from a guy that never held a gun until they made the music video? Judgement!

Are you buying a single for $5 and the LP is $6? Cheap a$$, judgment!

Are you buying the next Jeff Foxworthy album that only 15 minutes long instead of the 60 minute full show? Judged!

Are you buying a stack of a 100 45’s from the back of the store? Mad respect, judged!

Are making me looking up Metallica import from Japan in this giant book? I’ll be ordering 4 of those, thank you sir. Judged!

Are you buying all 14 of the Barney VHS tapes, every baby Mozart/Bach/Beethoven album and the TLC album, hang on mom, let me find you a coupon and another discount, those are not cheap. No Judgement!