Hey Pandas, What's The Most Awkward Thing That Has Happened To You In A Grocery Store? (Closed)

I was 3 at the time and I saw some candy I picked it up but in my rush to catch up with my mom I put it in my pocket and ended up taking it home without paying when mom found out draged me to the store and made me confesse and return it.

I’m a teacher, so I often run into my students or their families in the grocery store. As I was walking up and down aisles in the grocery store, I passed a guy, who I recognized from a parent-teacher conference. He kept staring at me. Finally, he stopped and said, “You look so familiar. Where do I know you from?” I often refer to my students as “my kids,” so I replied, “I think you’re one of my kids’ dads.” To which he responded, “No. You’re very beautiful. I think I would remember f***ing you.”

It took me a few minutes to recover from that.

As the proud new manager of a grocery store, my son led me on a tour, taking me to see the new display of bulk candy in the middle of the store. As he talked and laughed in excitement, he popped a red and white mint into his mouth and immediately appeared to be choking. When he couldn't talk, I screamed for help and gave him the Heimlich maneuver. People came to our assistance while my son gestured that he was not choking, but couldn't talk. One customer brought him coffee from the break room to "melt" the candy. My son was completely embarrassed in front of his fellow employees that he was never choking at all, but had a muscle spasm in his throat when he propelled the large candy into his mouth and it slid down his esophagus! He was completely humiliated by my screaming for help!

I once was in a grocery store and some old lady mistook me for her grand kid

Proudly saying ¨i will pay for it ¨. but came up short $5

#Awkwardgroceystorymoments

9yo me went to the grocery store and there was a lady there who looked very much like a friend of ours. I got excited and run up to her and hugged her.
She looked down at me and another girl she was with also looked strange at me.
I wished the floor would swallow me. Apologised in a hurry and left 😅

This happened on a vacation. So there was a guy that I somehow kept coming across at every aisle. It was totally unexpected. We were doing our respective shopping and unknowingly came across each other at every other aisle. After 20 min of this, we crossed again in the Dairy section and he smiled at me. He was very cute so I smiled back. He let me go first for billing too. It felt like a movie and it was some kinda meet cute moment. A week later he tries to get in touch on fb and Ig. It felt so weird because how did he find me? I blocked him and am very scared to even make eye contact with strangers at any store I go.

I went to go pay for some items at the self checkout and my card wasn't working so i tried multiple times and the cashier at one of the stands was like sir is this your card? and i just stood there being like uhhhhh yes? and so she called in security and i was just like i can pay cash and i am forever made fun of by everyone i know for that

I was on an aisle shopping when the store was pretty empty of customers and look up to see a giant walking "Twinkie the Kid" at the end of the aisle waving at me. Now that's a huge costumed Twinkie in a cowboy hat & boots. I wonder if I've lost my mind and desperately look around for anyone to verify what I'm seeing, but no one was in sight. I weakly waved back, and he walked off, never to be seen again. I still picture some guy taking off the costume in the employee lounge, chuckling "Freaked another one out!"

This happened about a year or two ago.

I saw the back of my friend Rowan at the produce aisle and I ran over and whacked him on the back of the head (because that's how we greet each other lol).

When he turned around, it wasn't Rowan.

It was my teacher. (Rowan's like 6 feet tall oof)

I brought down a police officer.

I was leaving the shop with three bags and managed to miss the top step of the stairs (not even 1 meter drop). Shopping bags tearing at my arms, I fell forward and right into a tall guy who had a coffee in hand and wore a vest with giant letters saying POLIZEI. Me and my shopping bags knocked him straight down and landed on top of him. Needless to say, his coffee was gone and I was mortified.
His colleagues helped us up, we were both ok. I offered new coffee and his colleagues teased him about his non-existant reflexes and that he should maybe return to the car instead of raiding the nearby metro station.

Worst part: I saw him again a few days later. I was walking down the steps to the metro station and he was coming up. When he spotted me, he changed sides and hold his coffee with both hands.

Years ago I worked as a Courtesy Clerk (bagger) during the holidays. I was bagging the groceries for a very petite and gracious elderly lady. As I was finishing her order I asked her if she was ready for Christmas, as was customary to ask each shopper back in the day. She looked me straight in the eye and said "F**k Santa" and pushed her cart off without another word.

I was around 5, it was a really hot day, and my dad and I were in an Aldi (I think). I saw a cheap little hand-held Disney princess themed fan, and showed to my dad. I turned it on, and felt the cool air on my face. "Ahhhh," I said. After a little while, I turned it off and kinda forgot I was holding it. After shopping, we exited the store, and the hot sun reminded me of the fan. I tuned it on, said "Ahhhh." again, and my dad looked down at me. He realized that we didn't buy the fan, and stopped in his tracks. We ended running back into the store to return the fan, and I was just sitting there, embarrassed, as the store clerks glared down at me. Maybe my most embarrassing, but a funny memory I remember to this day.

This was about 10 years ago when I decided to quit smoking. I told my husband that I wanted to go to the store and get some hard candies to help me quit smoking. We go to the candy aisle and we're seeing chocolates and those jelly orange things and all kinds of soft candy, but no hard candies. I loudly blurted out "I just need something hard to suck on!" Then I realized what I'd said and just wanted to fall through the floor.

I was shopping with my 2yo old brother years ago. Anyone who knows a 2yo knows they are both appallingly honest and completely unfiltered. He was in a phase of classifying both things and people. This trip to Target begins with us barely clearing the automatic entrance doors when we see a very large woman walking less than 6ft away. My brother very audibly remarks, "Those are REALLY BIG pants!" Then while shopping, an Asian man was perusing the same isle when my brother made eye contact and loudly told him, "You're Chinese!" The man was Asian certainly but we had no way of knowing if he was in fact Chinese. He didn't reply to my brother so I proceeded to whisper to my brother we couldn't know if he was Chinese or not. Then we found ourselves in the check out line behind an older lady who was very sweet when my brother told her, " You're old!" I was mortified, but she just laughed and agreed. I went home and told my Mom I couldn't take my brother out in public until he had some more life experiences and better manners.

To keep my daughter well-behaved in the supermarket, she got to pick out dog-treats for our family dog. In the check -out line, she spotted the candy and started whining. "No, You already got dog treats." The lady behind me said ,:I'm not going to judge you because she looks healthy."

My most awkward moment in a grocery store was when we were in the checkout line behind two other people with massively full trollies (Christmas so all checkouts were loaded) and my then 3 year old realised that the lady in front had the same shirt as my mum. He spent nearly 15 minutes screaming that that “mean lady had stole mumah’s shirt” and telling her “police get you” while I went redder and redder and apologised repeatedly.

I was around 13 years old and I was buying my mum a mother’s day card, a pencil case and a new pen for school. I walked up to the machine to pay for my items but I didn’t see the big sign that said card only. I stood there for a minute or so figuring out where to put my £5 note and I was looking around nervously. One of the people who worked there pointed out that it was card only so I walked over to another machine that took cash (rather embarrassed at being so dumb). As I scanned in my pen and card, I realised the label of the pencil case had fallen off by the card only machine. I saw it on the floor and wandered off to pick it up. When I came back to the one with my items, I saw a man standing there and so I stood awkwardly behind him. He noticed that there was stuff there but he had already scanned in some bread so it had combined my items and his. He looked confused and I couldn’t explain the situation to him as I don’t he spoke English. Another person who worked there came over and deleted all my things from the machine and so I had to start all over again somewhere else.
Last time I went to Sainsbury’s and this memory still haunts me in my sleep.

When my son, a very pale-skinned, blue eyed child, was just about a year old, he was discovering words and applying them to similar situations. His father is very tall (6'10"). We ran into the grocery store to just pick up one item, so I carried him rather than using a stroller. As he was looking around, he saw a very very dark skinned, tall man and used his loudest voice to say, "Look! Dada!" The gentleman was in line right next to us and loudly replied, "No, son, I don't think so!" It was awkwardly hilarious! Almost as funny as his response to seeing a clydesdale horse's genitalia at an amusement park with his dad!

I was at the garden center place with my mom and she told me to stand by the entrance to wait while she got a cart. So I was just standing there awkwardly and waiting and a woman approached me and said something like "where can I return these plants..." and I was like "I don't work here..." and she laughed and left... This happens quite often at many local stores people just start asking me stuff like I work there... haha!