Security has already been called, and my photo is hanging at the entrance!” Customer punished for trying to cheat a little 0 15

Recently, a story about a customer who turned an innocent attempt to buy a bun in a store into an epic plot worthy of a crime film became a real hit on social media.

The author of the story recounts that he could not find the chosen bun either in the list of products or through the search. To avoid wasting extra time and take the easy way out, he decided to get creative and simply pressed on the well-known croissant on the screen. But the plan failed miserably. At that very moment, right next to his ear, as if a bogeyman from the darkness, a store employee appeared with a stern and concise verdict: “That is not a croissant.” The customer admits that at that moment he was genuinely scared — he thought security was already on the way, and his photo would soon be hung at the entrance next to other wanted lawbreakers.

As it turned out, this was not the only case. In the comments to the post, discussions flared up immediately, and customers rushed to share their “illegal” adventures at the checkout counters. One user confessed that she once accidentally entered the wrong type of apples and immediately felt like a real criminal, while another recalls a case when a cashier noticed the mistake from a distance of 20 meters and shouted across the hall that there was the wrong cucumber in the bag. How they manage to distinguish between two visually identical types of village cucumbers from such a distance remains an undisclosed mystery of the superpowers of supermarket employees.

Internet wits quickly elevated the situation to a new level by creating witty memes. There was even a fake screenshot from the public alert system with the loud caption: “LATVIAN CELLULAR ALERT: THIS IS NOT A CROISSANT!”, hinting that such a violation would soon trigger a national alarm. At the same time, other customers point out the flip side of the coin — self-service checkout catalogs can sometimes be so incomplete that customers are simply forced to improvise. One commentator shared an experience from “Maxima,” where even a store employee could not find edible chestnuts in the system and, by mutual consent, pressed “Plums.” Thus, the customer received an exotic delicacy at a very favorable price.

While some advise circumventing the system by choosing cheaper buns of identical weight (after all, smart scales immediately detect fraud and block the checkout), more experienced customers remind that employees are not enemies. Even if a croissant scam occurs, the best weapon is a smile and politeness. Next time you go to buy a bun, be careful. The vigilant eye of the supermarket never sleeps, and who knows — perhaps someone is already standing right behind you, ready to whisper: “That is not a croissant...”