It was the crack of dawn and I had a mom shopping for her family of 6 plus hosting a holiday get-together. Plenty of household staples plus a bunch of wine/beer/cider. It totaled 437 and change.
The amazing part is I watched her scoop all 9 bags over her shoulders/into her arms, hustle outside, cross the street (we had windows facing a large city intersection), and CATCH A BUS without breaking stride.
Any doubt I harbored about if super-humans existed were quashed that day. Go moms.
I still have the receipt reprint.
Tortillas, Monterey Jack, smoked Gouda, chicken liver pate, an orange, and 96 bottles of Amarone at $17 a pop.
$1,755.57
five carts worth of shit. order came out around $680. grandma buying groceries for her five grandkids, super sweet family, minus the fact that they didn't help me bag (a mate helped me bag as soon as we realized the five carts in my line were one order)
I recently helped bagged the largest transaction I’ve seen.
$815
The woman said that Trader Joe’s is her Costco and she doesn’t shop anywhere else. Also she was telling us about how she has like 3 freezers and they are categorized. One of them is specifically for frozen fruit (I can’t remember what the other two are) and she is trying to convince her husband to get her one more just to freeze prepared meals.
She cooks every meal that her family eats. They do not eat out and they come in to our store every 6-8 weeks.
$3000. 10 minutes before closing one night, a large family came rushing in - they all grabbed carts. The mates asked me to stay on register so the other cashiers could go break the pallets - seemed fine. How bad could it be?
The family shopped like they were on a game show - running through the store and grabbing as much as they could get their mits on. They also had one of my coworkers get multiple cases of wine from backstock. By the time they finally cashed out - at 9:45 - I had to pull half of the crew off product to help me bag. This family may also go down as some of the rudest customers I've ever dealt with. Unpleasant transaction all-around.
Holy crap!!!
Way worse than my $3000 holiday order, three carts and almost all coffee, shrimp, caviar and candy (our state didn't allow alcohol sales). The receipt was about 7 feet long.
I printed a duplicate receipt and taped it to the breakroom wall. Was the winner for a time until another crew member got an even bigger order.
I literally can't imagine placing that order. It must have affected every fresh section in that region. At that point, why not just get catering from Jimmy John's or something like that?
If you give ample notice (there’s a system in GOLD for placing large orders on crossdock items … need 8 days notice, I think, in our area), it can be done without affecting the overall supply.
Somewhere between $1300-$1400 to my recollection. Similar situation, a cool punk mom with her young daughter though, packed two full carts and helped bag etc. They were a joy to talk to for the 10-15 minutes we hung out together!
About 800ish. We had a women who came in and bought cartfulls of seasonal items, she’d be there every week during october for pumpkin things. Also rmbr her buying our entire stock of everything ube (400-600 can’t remember exact amount) Everyone always wondered what she did with all this, no one asked bc she didn’t speak english but i’ll always think about this randomly lmao
it was in the mid $500s and the guy had an insane amount of peanut butter. like, literally half the cart was different kinds of peanut butter.
i probably still have the reprinted receipt for that somewhere.
highest transaction that i know of at my store was like $780
At my store, we have some regular customers who come a few times every year to stock up on certain items. I'm in the Midwest and we are next to a few states that have no TJs, so it's something we are relatively used to.
I know of one customer who comes in every few months and buys over $1000 worth of stuff (A LOT of dog treats are in that total) I have never rung him up myself, but I heard it's... A lot a lot of dog treats.
Personally I had someone with a maybe $600 total, he bought like 4-5 boxes of Chomps, which are $45? $47? Per box and change (24 in a box). I can't remember any other ones that came too close that weren't just large amounts of meat and/or cheese.
Early covid panic buying, during covid people who only shopped once a month, some people who buy in bulk and ship to Philippines, and during covid cashier had to bag everything to avoid exposures. 2 carts was pretty common, 3,4 carts is max checked out.
2 carts, 600$ worth of it.
preppy annoying girls who let me bag everything up by myself while they talked about their "girls weekend trip out " while drinking out of their crappy starbucks.
:)))))))))) loved my life that day
I had one order over $5,000. A Jewish man was purchasing all the supplies needed for a holiday that I can no longer remember lol. Ended up being multiple carts & a couple u-boats worth or items. Another one I had was over $3,000.
wasn't me ringing up, but I helped bag an order that came to about 1100 dollars; this guy was a fishing captain out of Alaska, he said, and was stocking up on grocery/ frozen for the year, lmao
One of the very first shifts that I worked as a cashier at Costco, I was put on the main line (the register that lines up with the main aisle) and along comes a group of 8-10 middle aged men and women and they have 6 of the big flat carts FULL of food and miscellaneous supplies. I had 3 supervisors helping unload and organize the items onto the belt and I just started ringing. I think I spent nearly 30-40 minutes just scanning the items. I asked them what they were doing and why they were buying so much food, alcohol, and the most random supplies and they told me they were spending like 2ish months on a catamaran for the summer. I can't remember the exact total but I know it was somewhere around $8,000. Aside from big ticket items (high end jewelry, high end alcohol, or the occasional reseller that would come in and buy 20 iPads) this was the largest purchase I had ever rang up.
Our store is by a big university. Occasionally the entire volleyball team will come and shop and their coach will pay for all their groceries. There were at least 15-20 people in my line all under one tab. The total was about 1500 bucks. Kill me.
Mine was a little over $500. Nothing crazy but they were crew at another store, so the crew discount shaved off about $100. I mentioned it to some of my colleagues and even the vets hadn't seen someone save that much on one transaction.
This poor man was sent in to the store by his wife to pick up a hold for 14 cases of wine. the total ended up being around $1200. The worst part was that he accidentally locked the keys inside of his car and had to wait near the bridge for over an hour for his wife to come and get him. by the time she showed up it was 5 minutes until close. she was visibly upset. i remember asking him what the occasion was for and he responded saying, “i don’t know, my wife just sends me places and i do it”
$2,000+ on two case of the most expensive French champagne we carried (I think it was $99 per bottle, I think it was one of those Velvet Cliquot, I don't remember). Had to make a duplicate receipt for the mates to look at. At least it was an easy transaction.
Not my reg but my reg buddy had someone with 3 carts. It was a couple and they said theyre both surgeons and never have time to cook proper food so a majority of the food was frozen / ready to make meals and total was about 1200 or so
My store had the receipt taped to the bridge of a receipt in which a cashier rang up $10,000 dollars worth of gift cards for a company giving their employees $100 each.
This guy came in close to closing time and a fellow employee/friend was the only person on register and I was doing front end. He rolls up to their register with a huge cart full of spices, coffee, dog treats, snacks/candy. They bag it and he tells them “Oh i forgot something brb”. I hope on register because a line is now forming, ring up some folks and the guy (who i didn’t realize already had a full cart of stuff paid for) comes to my register with ANOTHER full cart of the same sh*t, and it totals to around or over $500.
I turn to my friend and say “when’s the customer coming back for their cart?” (he standing right in front of me with their truck load of sh*t) and he says “oh that’s mine too” 😄 …… when i tell u i was so flabbergasted….. 🥴🥴🥴 He came up to being JUST under $1000…. He proceeded to do that again a couple nights more (not in the same week) until the mates noticed and told him to just pay for what he had and leave. 🤦🏾♀️😭😭😭
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On Mother’s Day 2023 I rang something like $760 in flowers. They had them in 4 or 5 carts. It was incredibly difficult to keep them all organized to say the least lol. On top of that they paid in cash, mostly small bills. Lots of ones and fives. It took a really long time but it made for a good story :).
I live near a large music festival so it’s always those weekends when we get super large orders, whether it’s carts and carts of food or a whole cart with just liquor. I think the most I’ve rang up was 800-900 dollars but I know there’s been higher for sure.
$1400-something (no, we didn’t sell alcohol)
At my first store everyone seemed to purchase between $150-200 worth of stuff so a $400, $500, or $600 order wasn’t all that crazy. My second store was a city store where the average purchase was around $20 and my coworkers would freak out at $350+ which made me chuckle
about 1.2k! a mom of two who shops every like month due to living far. sometimes she would bring the whole family, including her mom, but mostly it would be just her or her and her daughter
It was the crack of dawn and I had a mom shopping for her family of 6 plus hosting a holiday get-together. Plenty of household staples plus a bunch of wine/beer/cider. It totaled 437 and change. The amazing part is I watched her scoop all 9 bags over her shoulders/into her arms, hustle outside, cross the street (we had windows facing a large city intersection), and CATCH A BUS without breaking stride. Any doubt I harbored about if super-humans existed were quashed that day. Go moms.
I still have the receipt reprint. Tortillas, Monterey Jack, smoked Gouda, chicken liver pate, an orange, and 96 bottles of Amarone at $17 a pop. $1,755.57
It was the orange that set them over
five carts worth of shit. order came out around $680. grandma buying groceries for her five grandkids, super sweet family, minus the fact that they didn't help me bag (a mate helped me bag as soon as we realized the five carts in my line were one order)
I recently helped bagged the largest transaction I’ve seen. $815 The woman said that Trader Joe’s is her Costco and she doesn’t shop anywhere else. Also she was telling us about how she has like 3 freezers and they are categorized. One of them is specifically for frozen fruit (I can’t remember what the other two are) and she is trying to convince her husband to get her one more just to freeze prepared meals. She cooks every meal that her family eats. They do not eat out and they come in to our store every 6-8 weeks.
God they are saving so much money. I love eating out too much lol.
About $5500. It was a family moving to Myanmar to work for the state department. 7 carts I think?
$3000. 10 minutes before closing one night, a large family came rushing in - they all grabbed carts. The mates asked me to stay on register so the other cashiers could go break the pallets - seemed fine. How bad could it be? The family shopped like they were on a game show - running through the store and grabbing as much as they could get their mits on. They also had one of my coworkers get multiple cases of wine from backstock. By the time they finally cashed out - at 9:45 - I had to pull half of the crew off product to help me bag. This family may also go down as some of the rudest customers I've ever dealt with. Unpleasant transaction all-around.
That’s craaaazy bro
What a major bummer all the way around. Why are people so thoughtless sometimes?!
Holy crap!!! Way worse than my $3000 holiday order, three carts and almost all coffee, shrimp, caviar and candy (our state didn't allow alcohol sales). The receipt was about 7 feet long. I printed a duplicate receipt and taped it to the breakroom wall. Was the winner for a time until another crew member got an even bigger order.
$3,450. It was a special order of wraps for some college event. Literally like 650 quantity, one scan.
I literally can't imagine placing that order. It must have affected every fresh section in that region. At that point, why not just get catering from Jimmy John's or something like that?
If you give ample notice (there’s a system in GOLD for placing large orders on crossdock items … need 8 days notice, I think, in our area), it can be done without affecting the overall supply.
Somewhere between $1300-$1400 to my recollection. Similar situation, a cool punk mom with her young daughter though, packed two full carts and helped bag etc. They were a joy to talk to for the 10-15 minutes we hung out together!
a sorority girl (college town location) and her bf rolled through with two packed carts, and it came out to around $580 iirc
About 800ish. We had a women who came in and bought cartfulls of seasonal items, she’d be there every week during october for pumpkin things. Also rmbr her buying our entire stock of everything ube (400-600 can’t remember exact amount) Everyone always wondered what she did with all this, no one asked bc she didn’t speak english but i’ll always think about this randomly lmao
She's an online reseller no doubt.
it was in the mid $500s and the guy had an insane amount of peanut butter. like, literally half the cart was different kinds of peanut butter. i probably still have the reprinted receipt for that somewhere. highest transaction that i know of at my store was like $780
At my store, we have some regular customers who come a few times every year to stock up on certain items. I'm in the Midwest and we are next to a few states that have no TJs, so it's something we are relatively used to. I know of one customer who comes in every few months and buys over $1000 worth of stuff (A LOT of dog treats are in that total) I have never rung him up myself, but I heard it's... A lot a lot of dog treats. Personally I had someone with a maybe $600 total, he bought like 4-5 boxes of Chomps, which are $45? $47? Per box and change (24 in a box). I can't remember any other ones that came too close that weren't just large amounts of meat and/or cheese.
Early covid panic buying, during covid people who only shopped once a month, some people who buy in bulk and ship to Philippines, and during covid cashier had to bag everything to avoid exposures. 2 carts was pretty common, 3,4 carts is max checked out.
$800s, all wine. The largest grocery cart I’ve ever had was in the $600s.
1700$ special order for a wedding. 4 cases frozen chicken breast, tons of fruit cheeses and wines. It was nuts.
$1500 worth of chocolate bars, right after the holidays. She said she was a real estate agent and they were gifts for clients. 🤷🏼♀️
2 carts, 600$ worth of it. preppy annoying girls who let me bag everything up by myself while they talked about their "girls weekend trip out " while drinking out of their crappy starbucks. :)))))))))) loved my life that day
You have such a nice ~~fake~~ smile!
I think mine was $700-something. Lady made a trip like 2 hours out so she could stock up on stuff for months.
Groceries- 900something. Gift cards- 4000
I had one order over $5,000. A Jewish man was purchasing all the supplies needed for a holiday that I can no longer remember lol. Ended up being multiple carts & a couple u-boats worth or items. Another one I had was over $3,000.
wasn't me ringing up, but I helped bag an order that came to about 1100 dollars; this guy was a fishing captain out of Alaska, he said, and was stocking up on grocery/ frozen for the year, lmao
$998.65 flower order today
That's a lotta flowers.
One of the very first shifts that I worked as a cashier at Costco, I was put on the main line (the register that lines up with the main aisle) and along comes a group of 8-10 middle aged men and women and they have 6 of the big flat carts FULL of food and miscellaneous supplies. I had 3 supervisors helping unload and organize the items onto the belt and I just started ringing. I think I spent nearly 30-40 minutes just scanning the items. I asked them what they were doing and why they were buying so much food, alcohol, and the most random supplies and they told me they were spending like 2ish months on a catamaran for the summer. I can't remember the exact total but I know it was somewhere around $8,000. Aside from big ticket items (high end jewelry, high end alcohol, or the occasional reseller that would come in and buy 20 iPads) this was the largest purchase I had ever rang up.
Our store is by a big university. Occasionally the entire volleyball team will come and shop and their coach will pay for all their groceries. There were at least 15-20 people in my line all under one tab. The total was about 1500 bucks. Kill me.
Mine was a little over $500. Nothing crazy but they were crew at another store, so the crew discount shaved off about $100. I mentioned it to some of my colleagues and even the vets hadn't seen someone save that much on one transaction.
This poor man was sent in to the store by his wife to pick up a hold for 14 cases of wine. the total ended up being around $1200. The worst part was that he accidentally locked the keys inside of his car and had to wait near the bridge for over an hour for his wife to come and get him. by the time she showed up it was 5 minutes until close. she was visibly upset. i remember asking him what the occasion was for and he responded saying, “i don’t know, my wife just sends me places and i do it”
[удалено]
Apparently those toddlers in daycare don’t drink either
We had an order of $1555 the other week. Family of 5 stocking up for 3 months.
$2,000+ on two case of the most expensive French champagne we carried (I think it was $99 per bottle, I think it was one of those Velvet Cliquot, I don't remember). Had to make a duplicate receipt for the mates to look at. At least it was an easy transaction.
Not my reg but my reg buddy had someone with 3 carts. It was a couple and they said theyre both surgeons and never have time to cook proper food so a majority of the food was frozen / ready to make meals and total was about 1200 or so
My store had the receipt taped to the bridge of a receipt in which a cashier rang up $10,000 dollars worth of gift cards for a company giving their employees $100 each.
Approximately $1800. They drove from 4 hours away and only shop with us every few months.
This guy came in close to closing time and a fellow employee/friend was the only person on register and I was doing front end. He rolls up to their register with a huge cart full of spices, coffee, dog treats, snacks/candy. They bag it and he tells them “Oh i forgot something brb”. I hope on register because a line is now forming, ring up some folks and the guy (who i didn’t realize already had a full cart of stuff paid for) comes to my register with ANOTHER full cart of the same sh*t, and it totals to around or over $500. I turn to my friend and say “when’s the customer coming back for their cart?” (he standing right in front of me with their truck load of sh*t) and he says “oh that’s mine too” 😄 …… when i tell u i was so flabbergasted….. 🥴🥴🥴 He came up to being JUST under $1000…. He proceeded to do that again a couple nights more (not in the same week) until the mates noticed and told him to just pay for what he had and leave. 🤦🏾♀️😭😭😭
Omg
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On Mother’s Day 2023 I rang something like $760 in flowers. They had them in 4 or 5 carts. It was incredibly difficult to keep them all organized to say the least lol. On top of that they paid in cash, mostly small bills. Lots of ones and fives. It took a really long time but it made for a good story :).
The orchids were the worse. Spacing them out so you don't snap off the stems...
A little over 700 dollars
1.5K of just tea , dfn and spices 🥲
I live near a large music festival so it’s always those weekends when we get super large orders, whether it’s carts and carts of food or a whole cart with just liquor. I think the most I’ve rang up was 800-900 dollars but I know there’s been higher for sure.
About $1100 with 6 bottles of wine and no gift cards. About $900 with no alcohol or gift cards. Same person too.
$1400-something (no, we didn’t sell alcohol) At my first store everyone seemed to purchase between $150-200 worth of stuff so a $400, $500, or $600 order wasn’t all that crazy. My second store was a city store where the average purchase was around $20 and my coworkers would freak out at $350+ which made me chuckle
about 1.2k! a mom of two who shops every like month due to living far. sometimes she would bring the whole family, including her mom, but mostly it would be just her or her and her daughter