1. Customers arriving five minutes before the shop shuts:

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2. Getting blamed for price increases as though you have any control over anything in this infernal place:

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Oh no, sorry, overestimate. I meant overestimate. I can't do shit.  

3. Carefully arranging a display, only for it to be destroyed 10 minutes later:

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4. People asking for a 50% discount because the item has a tiny scratch on it and therefore is literally worthless:

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Ah yes, of course. You know what, here's 90% off.  

5. Customers not understanding the difference between what they want and what is available:

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You see, what you want is something that we don't have. Do you see the issue we're having here?  

6. *no price label on the product* Customer: So that means it's free then? Hahahahaha.

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7. Giving your biggest, cheeriest "Hello sir/madam" and getting this in return:

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Good morning to you too!  

8. Holding out your hand for the customer's money, who decides to just dump it on the counter:

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Oh good, you're paying with all your loose change too. This won't take a moment.  

9. When a customer's total is €0.02 more than they were expecting:

 

10. Customers trying to return something that’s soaking wet, slashed up and covered in jam, claiming that it’s “faulty”:

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11. When the phone rings and rings and rings, then you answer and it's, “What time do you close?”

 

12. “It says everything’s 50% off”. No, everything’s UP TO 50% off...

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Check the not-so-small print.  

13. Customers asking you to check "The Back" when you know there's nothing there:

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What a surprise, there's nothing there.  

14. Getting a whopping 15 minute break on your 10-hour shift because work is crazy busy:

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15. Parents treating your workplace like a creche and basically letting their children destroy everything:

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Petition to have one of these installed in every shop ever.  

16. "I have a voucher, but I left it at home." Well, you don't really have a voucher then, do you?

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Also I'm fairly sure that voucher is from 1883.  

17. When a customer seems to know more about your store policy than you do:

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Really? Tell me more about how we've always stocked this product that we've never stocked.  

18. When it's 9am on a Monday and the first thing that happens is a customer yelling at you for something that wasn't your fault:

 

19. "Oh wait, here's 30p." But I just pressed the £10 button on the till...

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20. "Smile!"

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21. When you think it's been four hours but you're only 10 minutes into your shift:

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