Comments on: Suspicious Checkout Line Combinations

By: ginger nuts

ginger nuts — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:05:33 +0000

a copy of(the now defunct) british fashion magazine “the face” and a copy of “mein kampf” by A Hitler. i was the first customer that morning. it was for a university essay

By: Pearl

Pearl — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:31:39 +0000

oh wow. this is great. when i was cashiering i would look at what people bought, but never thought much about what i was buying. one of my fairly recent purchases that i recall::

hairspray
rope
12-pack of soda
baby oil
plastic toy nunchucks
cat food

ha ha. i am going to be super paranoid in the checkout line from here on out!!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:47:09 +0000

I was buying groceries with my roomate, like I did every week. Since we were night folks at a 24 hour grocery store it was probably between midnight and 2:00am.

My roomate commented that the cashier must think we’re vampires, we were only in at night.

I said that we only saw HER at night, what if she was the vampire?

She bared her fangs and hissed at us :)

By: bob

bob — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:06:23 +0000

a hacksaw, crow bar, spray paint, a dog squeaky toy, biscuits, and bagels. unfortunately, the wal-mart did not have any ski masks in stock . . .

nonetheless, we got quite the look from the clerk.

By: Slippy Lane

Slippy Lane — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:16:52 +0000

Wow. Speechless. Culture-shock. Blogged.

:-)

By: Higgins

Higgins — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:30:28 +0000

Hey Slippy,

Indeed — you can even browse their stock of ammo *and guns* online:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=170080

And shootings in Wal-Mart parking lots are fairly routine:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=shooting+in+wal-mart+parking+lot&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Happy new year!! :)

By: Slippy Lane

Slippy Lane — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:04:11 +0000

I don’t have an embarrassing shopping list, but I just had to comment. You will no doubt be amused at my Englishness, but seriously? Live ammunition at Wal-Mart?

Tell me this, though, do you get many shootings in Wal-Mart parking lots?

;-)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:17:08 +0000

Once I was shopping in a Wal-Mart late at night after returning from a test site in the middle of nowhere in a desert near Las Vegas. I had…

60 (all they had) first aid ice packs, 40 pounds of banannas (potassium for sweating),
20 small jars of vaseline (lips, lub on gear, etc.),
20 boxes of sanitary napkins (make great bandages)
about 40 packs of different sized batteries
8 cases of Red Bull
and a candy bar- oh, and I paid in cash.

The old woman in front of me turned around with a big smile and made a comment about late night shopping, looked at my cart and then never looked back again.

The cashier was pleasant until she saw the vaseline and the banannas (and the batteries and my fist full of cash). She suddenly went mute and wouldn’t look me in the eye either.

Obvioulsy I spooled someone as I was pulled over on the way back to my hotel and quizzed quite extensively about what I was doing.

By: Leah

Leah — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:58:32 +0000

This is a hilarious post!! I carefully plan my shopping around this problem. Considering most of my shopping takes place at Wal-Mart at around 11 pm, pretty much everything seems sketchy. Whenever my boyfriend and I run out of condoms or KY jelly we always fight about who has to buy them next. I hate buying them from a gas station because I feel extra sleezy. I also hate the condom/lube section…I refuse to be seen perusing the aisle so I spot it from afar and wait till no one is there then I run up and grab it and walk away. Granted, this probably looks a lot weirder than just casually grabbing it but I have issues. The last time I was in that section of Wal-Mart there was another young couple with a bottle of champagne picking up some condoms. I’m pretty sure they were talking loudly about their plans for the night.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:36:51 +0000

baby formula
case of beer
ammo