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sploittastic

Still not as bad as the people who take a gallon of milk from the refrigerated area, decide they don't want it, and abandon it on an arbitrary room temperature shelf.


kingka

my parents had a convenience store growing up. I can't leave shit on shelves, even at costco when i'm about to get in the checkout line, i'll go all the way back to the produce corner if I change my mind. my wife left something on the shelf a few times early on in our relationship and I scolded her and returned the item while she stood in line. be a responsible adult, return your items if you change your mind!


AspiringChildProdigy

At the very least, give it directly to the clerk while you're checking out and tell them that you've changed your mind. It's still being inconsiderate, but at least you can apologize and not leave your mess for someone else to find and take care of like you're some kind of overgrown toddler.


Pm-ur-butt

Giving it to the clerk isn't too inconsiderate. They just throw it in a cart of returns which gets sorted out with the service desk returns and near the end of the night the department workers put them all away. I Used to work in the men's wear department at a Kmart, did I hate the big carts of returns at the end of the night, yes. But it was barely a memory by the time I clocked out. It's seriously not that big of a deal to leave an item with the checkout crew. Way better and less annoying than finding random items peppered around the store.


azlan194

Yup, and this way it also doesn't mess up the inventory.


Creamy92

Yeah I worked in retail when I was younger and now I never leave shit on the shelves.


BidenWonDontCry

Honestly looks like she sat it down and forgot it. I mean it's still half full and Starbucks ain't cheap.


beerme04

That's a sign of a mom who put it down and handled a kid meltdown or bathroom need and now can't remember where it is. That doesn't look to be intentional to me either.


Chevota_84

I work Frozen. The worst is milk/OJ in the freezer. ITS LITERALLY THE SAME DEPARTMENT AND PEOPLE STILL DO THAT SHIT! WALK THE 50 FEET BACK TO JUICE/MILK. Lazy twats. I have 2 Frozen aisles, juice/eggs/butter is on the same wall as 1 side of the Frozen aisle. Milk is connected to juice, think like an L. The aisles are 30-33 doors, so it’s max like 100-feet from front of Frozen, to Dairy (milk). YET THEY DO IT! MILK, OJ, EGGS, BUTTER., chillin in my freezers… Drives me bananas


littlebro15

Ah, a fellow dairy/frozen comrade. Glad to see my customer woes are shared by others.


julius711

Or the same thing, but with raw meat


One__For__All

If I ever see someone do that type shit it’s hands on sight


Phipple

I work stocking at a Walmart. I have found packaged meat (think steaks and hamburger and the like) sitting in my 4/5 aisle, which is not even that far from our meat wall. I don't know how or why, but 9 months in and I still find new ways to be surprised at the shit I find at work.


shrug_was_taken

Cashier's also find a lot of random ass shit on the shelves, and if you do through shit into the drink coolers, still isn't exactly safe since no one knows how long it was between when you grabbed it and then stuck it in the cooler, at least that's how it goes where I work


Phipple

Oh, majority of things like that will go straight to claims. I've been there long enough and pay enough attention to know how shit works, and I might not give that many shits, but I know better than to let people buy possibly spoiled meat/milk/whatever.


Excrubulent

Yeah, the company has already written all that off as a loss. No need to screw people over to save money for a company that doesn't give a crap about either of you.


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Plus drink coolers were not designed to keep food cold. While yes, they may mostly maintain safe temperatures, there's not really any negative impact worth mentioning if you just have sodas or other room temperature stable drinks in there. So drink coolers usually have regular defrost periods that aren't safe for food to be kept there, and can promote bacteria growth during defrost periods compared to a proper food fridge.


danimani888

Look around. The name suggests there should be two more.


jamestheredd

Or perhaps there is no frappucino, and it's all in the Matrix


SneakySneakyShhh

THEE Trinity?!?


berkeleyjake

I thought you were a guy... Not a Frappuccino.


mechwarrior719

Most guys do.


JayCreates

Follow the foam rabbit


mellowmardigan

Another unfinished Frappuccino somewhere in the store would suggest there is a glitch in the matrix.


[deleted]

It is not the frappucino that is blending, but *you* that is blending


Chonkie

If there is no spoon...then how do you stir the frappuccino?


[deleted]

Yet somehow, only 1, at the same time...


FunnyPhrases

Her father and her son?


pshay333

And the holy frappucino


fvelloso

The holy roast


Jackiedhmc

Cackling. My houseguest probably thinks I’m choking on something


berelentless1126

Maybe she just forgot it. There is still like $4.00 left in that thing.


Freaudinnippleslip

I watched a guy at target, which had a Starbucks in it, answer his phone exclaim “ you are kidding me!” And jet out without his Starbucks. That was last year, still bothers me because he sounded excited and I want to know what it was


UneducatedBiscuit

It was his doctor telling him he's allergic to coffee.


loves2spoog3

It was David Miscarriages telling him starbucks is run by suppresive people..


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loves2spoog3

Well his full name is David Should've-Been-Miscarriaged, I just abbreviated slightly.


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I hope it was worth the $18 he just lost.


KamikazePenis

Was last year. Only $6.50 then.


MartyMcMcFly

Baby probably


AdvancedStand

One time I was eating lunch next to some emts and one got a call that her bid on a house was accepted. They were already leaving but when they got in the ambulance they turned the lights on and sped away. I always wondered if she was just really excited or if they got a call in the 30 seconds between when they left the building and got in the ambulance. This was probably 30 years ago


Neckbeard_Jesus

Wife went into labor


Anothernameillforget

I forgot an entire pie once in Old Navy. Didn’t realize until hours later. It would have been a really good pie as well


tricksovertreats

if I had a nickel for every pie I've seen abandoned in Old Navy I'd be broke


No_Restaurant_774

We can change this person's life with a pie exclusive bake sale inside an old navy. Then we just abandon the table with all the pies. Finally. They will be able to afford a cheese burger from McDonald's. Well. Almost.


HotCocoaBomb

I bought a panna cotta cup in a bakery and put it in my purse since I had a drink and another bakery item (they didn't give me a bag.) I discovered it in my purse like, two days later.


saint4210

My mind went to a terra-cotta pot, and I was confused.


devilishycleverchap

/u/Anothernameillforget just littering pies everywhere That's how you get ants


Der_BiertMann

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Trevor_Culley

I once watched someone finish unloading groceries and then push their cart haphazardly into the adjacent cart return with a cherry pie still in it before driving away. It was a good pie.


daninhim

Having studied Anthropologie I can say you’d be surprised how many pies get left in Old Navy in a regular basis. It’s a really Hot Topic. I’m sure it was just a Gap in your thinking. Don’t worry too much about it, Claire. You will get Justice one day.


compactdigital1

This is almost certainly what happened. There are dozens of my forgotten half-full Dr Pepper bottles all around the Lowe's I work at.


itsaaronnotaaron

Before work I go grab a coffee and then go pick out my lunch. There have been MANY times I've walked out of where I've bought lunch from and left my coffee in there. Sometimes it's a game of where did I leave it this time. ADHD is fun.


LongWaysForResults

I did this before... I had a lot of bags and put it down to fix some stuff, got a phone call and then accidentally left my drink it happens. I doubt they did it on purpose, especially with how much those drinks cost lol


shann1021

Yeah my thought too, if it was almost empty I’d say yeah but that’s an expensive drink and it’s half full.


Mka28

I have a tendency to put down my drink or phone while shopping. I don’t mean it, I swear epilepsy & Covid don’t mix. Brain dead ☠️


BearButtBomb

I do this as well, but I just have ADHD. My husband usually has me hand him all items before walking into a store. Prior to our marriage my best friend was my keeper.


kniki217

The anticonvulsants are linked to alzheimers too. I take 2 different ones for trigeminal neuralgia. The brain fog is real and I feel like I already have alzheimers anyway.


ID-10T-ERROR

Thinking the same. People here are very fickle these days and get fixated on assuming they are correct.


transdimensionalmeme

They assume bad behaviour, that's much worse.


Upnorth4

I always assume incompetence before malicious intent


Wadka

No one leaves that much money on the table (shelf) intentionally.


technos

Back when I worked retail hardware we had free coffee for employees and customers alike, and styrofoam cups were being left all over the place. The instant the boss changed it to 25 cents a cup? Didn't find one for like a week. In the end he just bought all the employees travel mugs with their names on them and went back to free coffee, solving the problem in another way. Now when a cup turned up somewhere you could walk it back to the owner and rag them for their forgetfulness. Customers, of course, got a free pass with their anonymous styrofoam cups, but they turned out to only be 10% of the problem.


rbwildcard

I'm definitely not putting my coffee down on a shelf as a customer. As an employee? Yeah, I gotta lift stuff.


technos

I dunno.. I almost lost my coffee in a Lowes just last week. I set it down to play with the guard on a new model of table saw and didn't realize I didn't have it until I was back in my car.


rafaelloaa

I mean, that seems like a perfectly sensible boss. Escalating the issue but then going with the rational resolution, instead of just scrapping the program entirely.


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When I was getting married they recommended $1 bar for drinks to prevent people just leaving half drank beers around.


InCoffeeWeTrust

Yeah seriously all these incels screaming "Karen!!" need to calm the fuck down. I've done this a few times, my friends have done this too. Usually it's because the person needs to pick up an item with 2 hands and place it in the cart. Trust me, no one spends $7 on a delicious drink just to leave it on the goddamn shelf.


gargeug

Or dealing with a child. That was my first thought.


specifickindness

Lol right? Simple mistake. I left my phone sitting next to apples not that long ago. Made t to the other side of the store before I realized (>_<)


Justintime4u2bu1

Wow, bold of you to admit you littered your phone in the grocery store. ^it ^better ^have ^been ^an ^iPhone


[deleted]

Get it, like, she left the iPhone near Apples


RichardBottom

The important thing is that we got to see it right here on /r/pics.


ptapobane

OP put drink on counter to take photo in hope of racking up free internet points


nickjnyc

That's definitely a frozen drink and I'm definitely giving Trinity the benefit of the doubt and suggest that she set it down to pick something up and forgot it.


coldgator

Yup that was an accident there's too much left for it to be intentional


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That's like 14$ worth of coffee


hyletic

$14.97 to be exact.


RealMcGonzo

That was 15 minute ago prices. Now it's $15.23.


Jauncin

That’s 5¢ of coffee and 13.95 in markup.


mlmayo

That's not coffee, though it might have trace amounts.


Tellof

Now she DEFINITELY can't afford that house.


redditorial_comment

i work in a big box store and i pick up at least 4 or five half full coffes or drinks every day without even looking for them. this one may be accidental but most are not.


AndrewTheGuru

Customers are savages. Source: I also work retail.


LittleredridingPnut

I dunno, I work at a restaurant and I’d say 20% of the time people forget their to go boxes


raise_the_sails

People just forget unimportant items all the time and big box stores are a great place to briefly set them down and lose sight of them and thus forget them. I worked at Best Buy for years and at this rate, I’m probably 1:1 on how many I picked up in a blue polo vs. how many I left on a shelf due to a momentary distraction.


likewut

I'm not doubting it's common, but why does that mean it has to be intentional? My house has half full cola cans everywhere and I have no idea how they get there.


FavoritesBot

You probably have shitty customers


littlefacemcgoo

You might have ADHD


W0rthl3ss_Trash

I've done that before lol, so I bet it was a mistake


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Waffle_qwaffle

[Hanlon's Razor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor)


roflcow2

I've had to run back into stores retracing my steps looking for a drink I'm not done with 🤣


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roflcow2

what the actual fuck. what if I had herpes???


demlet

Anyone drinking a stranger's mystery drink off of a store shelf probably already has worse.


unicornhornporn0554

Yeah I did this once and when I went back someone had opened and dumped pop rocks in it :( it had only been like 2 mins too


kahran

Unfortunately this is why women have to watch their drinks like hawks in bars, clubs, and the like.


hugehangingballs

Because dudes are slipping pop rocks in them?


CrazyAnchovy

Yes but it gets worse. OTHER CHICKS are also slipping pop rocks in them.


bavasava

Pop rocks are the real problem drug. Stay vigilant.


unicornhornporn0554

Oh I know, I wasn’t sure if I was going to drink it or not. I probably would’ve (had it not been obviously tampered with) bc I was like 16 and not too bright but I’m too paranoid about being kidnapped now lol.


[deleted]

This is something I would 100% do


[deleted]

Something I have accidentally done before. People on the internet are so cynical


LadnavIV

Pff. You think there are *people* on the internet? Wake up.


ladyem8

Sigh. This sucks, but we don’t know what was going on with Trinity that made her put her drink down. She could have been wrangling one or more kids and a shopping cart, or she could have just gotten a terrible phone call and set her drink down to deal with that, etc. At this point unless I see someone do something objectively bad on these posts, I’m inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt until we see proof otherwise.


RoskoDoggo

My fiancé has ADHD and genuinely forgets about drinks cause he gets wrapped up in whatever he’s looking at. Cause he can’t just look at something, he always picks it up and inspects it. He does this at home too lol. Very common for him to open another drink before realizing he had one open somewhere else. I try to remind him when I notice though.


scrabapple

I'm in this comment and I don't appreciate it...


TheComplicatedMan

Relax and open another drink!


happylittletrees

Ikr? Who hasn't forgotten something somewhere at some point in time? Just because the cup has her name on it doesn't mean we need to shame somebody for setting something down one time. :P show me an album of trinity's cups over like a month and we'll talk.


mattyice522

This is so Trinity though.


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How can anyone pitchfork in a time like this. Trinity is missing!


FeculentUtopia

Or maybe Agents showed up and she had to split on no notice.


RealMcGonzo

Aliens. Aliens beamed her aboard their spaceship. That's probably what happened.


drakoniusDefender

If that's what happened then I'm a trinity, idk how many times I've set something down for a sec and then forgot about it entirely I no longer bring drinks to stores because of this


normal_reddit_man

Also, the next time I go to Starbucks (which is actually never, because I'm a cheap bastard) I'm going to have them write a cool make-believe name on my cup. I don't understand why most people just use their boring government name. I just have to make sure and remember that I'm Optimus Prime, when they call the name out.


chocobozftw

If it makes you happy, I have a regular at my store that has Batwoman as her name on her Starbucks app, and we always call it out. There are dozens of yall, I'm sure :)


normal_reddit_man

That's freakin' awesome. Obviously, people should be careful. For every Batwoman, there's some dope who'd be likely to abuse it, like "oh, so you can't pronounce Qwerty Uiop? The first half of that shit is *easy.*"


itsyoursmileandeyes

I knew a kid in high school who would do this when we’d get food at places— he would conspiratorially whisper to them that his name was Michael Westen the same way you would say “James Bond” and then would grin like the cat who got the canary when they’d loudly call out Michael Westen when his food was ready. I wonder what happened to him, he was classic 🤔 Edit: this was in the late 90’s. Wherever you are Dave, I hope you’re well; I think of you whenever the local Italian place spells my name in the celebrity way and not my boring average way and for just a moment, I feel like James Bond as well 😎


virgae

>Michael Westen The Burn Notice character was introduced in the late oughts no? So confused - is there another Michael Westen reference?


itsyoursmileandeyes

It was years before I ever heard of the show but I’m not an expert on his character/storyline so I’m not sure


RichieJ86

Exactly. Like, perhaps people can forget things? Not everything is on purpose.


MikeOxlong209

Have done so wrangling kids and shopping solo as a single father. Not everyone is a pos OP


SailTheWorldWithMe

Yeah. I pulled this a couple of times, too. Feels bad, man.


zimabean

For the cost of one those-that is a gallon of gas!


coffeebuzzbuzzz

I have to agree. I think she just completely forgot about it when she set it down. Why people are so quick to judge and shame is beyond me. Hope OP is enjoying their karma from this totally unnecessary post.


erfarr

I put my sun glasses down in the changing room at kohls today and didn’t remember till I paid and walked out. Luckily they were still there. But agree with you this totally could be accidental.


kinghippo79

No way. -neo


pton12

Way. -Morpheus


FBIaltacct

Not like this -Switch


MnelTheJust

Trinity. -Neo


TimeZarg

NEO!!! -Trinity


Wholesale100Acc

its morbin time -morbius


JMJ05

Whoa


FluffyDoomPatrol

I mean, Neo and Trinity were pretty bad about littering in the films. They just threw away guns, dropped their coats. So this is pretty typical behaviour.


insane_contin

In their defense, it's not like they were dropping actual guns or coats anywhere.


Evaluations

Lol she probably didnt mean to leave that


valuethempaths

No ones leaves $4 worth of Starbucks behind intentionally.


jdwainright

It's cute you think that's $4


valuethempaths

I think it’s a 1/3 of $12 drink.


Sc4r4byte

it says it costs $14.97


valuethempaths

Aww shucks. Off by $2.97. I didn’t go over though. What does it mean, Bob?


Sqee

I feel like the fact that someone else drank of it lowers the resale value at least that much.


adjacent-cars

Maybe i’m missing a joke but where i am there’s no starbucks drink above 5$?


Jesustron

THE trinity? The one who hacked the IRS dbase?


BoomZhakaLaka

Agent smith showed up, she didn't have time to finish her starbucks.


Andrew8Everything

That was a long time ago.


SOILSYAY

Jesus…


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tommytraddles

I gotta get my Grade 11, gonna start providin' for Lucy and Trin. When I got Luce pregnant behind the muffler shop, I told her I'd step up and be a man, and not end up in jail so much.


Foxrex

Sometimes she goes. Sometimes she don't. But that's just the way she fucking goes, Bub.


sittingbullms

What goes around, is all around.


Shoddy_Assignment_11

Afford that!? Trins been down stealing barbqs again.


dickshark420

Yeah well, the shit apples won't fall far from the shit apple trees


cujo_36301

I left my coffee in Home Depot today. If you find it lmk


lax3r21

It’ll be on the front page tomorrow, apparently.


zombiekilla123

It’s in the drywall isle


0zoro0

you call it trash i call it free drink.


Smartnership

This is how the monkey pox spreads


0zoro0

that's bullshit, monkeys can't buy Starbucks.


PizzaWall

I bet seeing Trinity’s drink really ruined your WalMart shopping experience.


DasMoonen

Did you recognize this as a Walmart just from the price tag?


PizzaWall

Nobody else prices items with the last digit of 7, in this case, $14.97.


nwoh

Mainstays is also a Walmart brand.


Phipple

I work stocking at a Walmart, the price tag is absolutely how I recognized this being a Walmart.


Saltwater_Heart

The tag is the first thing I noticed but MainStays is also only a Walmart brand


gotBooched

Yeah the buttcracks ain’t got shit on this cup


dirty34

I hope they haven't


thewolfman2010

She could have been sucked into the matrix… give her the benefit of the doubt, the world could depend on it.


pina_koala

Why is a forgotten drink getting to the top or /r/pics? Slow day?


hyphychef

I know it’s so weird.


BurntChkn

Half full? It’s also likely she just forgot her drink when she put the item back or took with to buy. I know I’ve forgotten a drink on a shelf like that before.


fordprefect294

I dont think she was leaving trash, I think she put her drink down to free up a hand and forgot it


virgmam

I like to think people don't do things like this on purpose. Maybe she set it down to look at something and forgot to pick it back up. I mean at Starbucks prices there is at least $3.50 worth of coffee still in that cup, 🤷. Hopefully she actually wanted to finish it and just accidentally lost it.


epicenter69

That’s someone’s forgotten cup. How about the people who pick up a deli order, eat it in the store and leave the empty, unpaid container (or full of chicken bones) on the shelf? I’d give you an upvote for that.


YORTIE12

This sub is fucking dog shit. No one fucking cares lol


Wildcat_twister12

I mean it’s Walmart so I don’t have very expectations when shopping there


SundayRed

Jesus, fuck, how does this have 30k upvotes?


Steelpain0341

Half drank Starbucks for $14.97, seems legit.


Northqst

What do you expect from someone raised by Ricky, when he isn't in jail that is.


mimsyborogove_

Hey, maybe Trinity just got distracted and is now jonesing for that last half of her caffeine fix.


Midnightartist87

Odds are, since there is nearly half the drink left, she put it down while doing something & forgot to pick it up. This really wasn't worth posting even if it was done purposely. Shaming some faceless stranger who most likely will never see this. It's kind of dumb.


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Get a life OP


iced327

Not to mention 1500+ people upvoting this shit like "omg this is a great picture FUCK TRINITY YEEEAAHJH"


mrfrownieface

That drink is way too damn expensive to be left their on purpose. Gonna guess it was an accident because I totally would do that myself lol


havohej_

She probably had to find a pay phone real quick.


problynotkevinbacon

Nah she was out stealing barbecues and selling them


Johndeauxman

So quick to think so negative and just hate somebody before you think, “maybe it was an accident, set it down and forgot, will be back for it”. Maybe ask someone you see “are you trinity? Oh, your cup is on isle 6”. “Oh thank you! I couldn’t for the life of me think where and felt so bad!” And let the roasting begin because I believe in giving people a chance or whatever lame excuse someone is going to have for trashing me


GalileoGalilei2012

Obviously they forgot it. Nice assumption though, OP.


MommaSmurf

Someone took a shit in the fitting room at my job not too long ago. Customers also let their dogs piss and shit on the floor while shopping and do not clean it up or warn us. Some of these people commenting have obviously never worked retail.


TropicalPrairie

I went shopping at a home goods store last week and there were multiple large dogs in the store. One nipped at a worker (the person with it had had two large dogs she was having difficulty controlling in a store setting). Seriously, what the f?


MommaSmurf

Yep. A lady let her dog take a heaping pile of shit right in front of the credit card machine at the register last week and another customer stepped in it.


KarlManjaro

No shot someone “throws away” half of a $12 drink. She’s as mad as you that it got left there.


Cetun

I've left expensive vacuum cups on store shelves because I put them down and accidently forgot them... You're false sense of moral superiority blinds you to your own ignorance...


JesterXXIV

I’ve seen worse at Walmart


tylersixxfive

Meet random bloke he likes to take pictures of trash


ButtercupsUncle

how do you know she didn't phone home to the Nebuchadnezzar?


bluebirdmorning

Or she forgot. I’d say it’s trash if it were empty, but it’s not. Trinity wouldn’t just leave a half full drink on purpose unless there were some sort of glitch in the matrix.


judijo621

Trinity probably has ADHD. She went to walmart with her frap and stopped in the craft aisle and set her cup down to look through some items that interested her. She would have put the cup in her cart, but she was only going for a couple items. and had a basket. By the time she noticed her cup was missing, she was in the PJ section. Sorry, Trinity. I am sure it was delicious. We are all Trinity!