28 Funny Ways Customers Tried to Scam Retail Workers
‘Tried to return an empty bag of ice because it melted too quickly’
There’s always going to be a customer who thinks they can beat the system, and hey, sometimes it works. Plenty of people have done the old clothing-tag switcheroo to pay less or conveniently forgotten to scan an item at self-checkout. But on occasion, a customer declares themself a retail-scamming genius and rewrites the script completely. Like the guy in South Carolina who called into customer service on September 12, 2001 to claim that his weed wacker was in the Twin Towers the day before and needed to be replaced under warranty.
These are the kinds of bozo stories that Reddit’s retail workers have hilariously regaled us with, and they include a tech mogul mix-up and an attempted rotisserie chicken return.