Things Grocery Employees Wish You’d Never Find Out

9. As cashiers, we were trained not to stop shoplifters. We could literally watch you carry something out of the store, and we couldn’t run after you or tell you to stop.

They also aren’t supposed to do it because that job belongs to Loss Prevention people aaaaand those guys have very different instructions for handling shoplifters

10. The single most profitable items in the grocery store is a bag of ice, and a loaf of bread from a bakery.

Ice can have a 100% mark up, and bakery bread can be 90% mark up. People just dont understand where grocery stores make their money.

11. 90% percent of the time when you ask us to look for something in the back, we already know we don’t have it.

Go into the back, reply to a couple text messages, come back out, “nope, checked everywhere we could have more, were out.”

12. A good portion of whitefish fillets (maybe 40%) came to us with at least one worm curled up in them.

We did our best to notice them and remove them, but some go unnoticed. That’s just a product of living in the wild.

Also we talk about you after you leave if you were rude.