Walmart customer calls cops on himself after self-checkout avocado mishap
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A Walmart employee revealed on Reddit that a customer called police after accidentally entering 999 avocados at the self-checkout kiosk, causing his grocery bill to spike to over $1,300.
"I guess he accidentally hit 999 avocados instead of the 9 he intended." "I had a customer who was causing a disturbance and making it very hard to work. They kept threatening to call the cops." Peter Burke is a lifestyle editor with Fox News Digital.
User "Lore-Archivist" wrote about the confrontation, prompting others to share their own odd self-checkout interactions.
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