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The original was posted on /r/talesfromretail by /u/Worldly-Leg-74 on 2024-03-23 16:24:12.

I work at a big home improvement store on the US Gulf coast. A few weeks ago we had a big winter storm come in, so I was putting out several boxes of pipe insulation, pipe wrap and faucet covers out on the main aisles (we always get tons of people looking to buy these whenever the weather drops below freezing). We put giant endcaps out, right in front of the checkout lanes. We had so many boxes taking up practically the whole front of the store.

But I still had so many customers walk right in, come right up to me, and ask "Where is the piping insulation… do you guys have faucet covers?? " etc… I’m literally standing like 5 feet away from, with a box cutter, opening all these boxes for display. I was wondering if maybe it’s because our faucet covers are colored weird (so maybe people didn’t recognize them), but we also had big signs on the boxes, and the pipe insulation and everything else looked normal and was in plain sight. And people kept asking over and over. It took all my self-control to not say something snarky. Eventually, after like 20 people doing this - completely blind to their surroundings - I really start to worry about the future of civilization. Crazy.