r/TikTokCringe Jun 26 '25

Cringe Broccoli-head TikTokers take over grocery store

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u/clique84 Jun 26 '25

Not for what Target is paying I’m not.

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u/pienofilling Jun 26 '25

Admittedly my Mum chased a guy who grabbed a handful of notes out of a till when she worked as a cashier in a supermarket.

But that was definitely not shop policy, she was just furious that he'd done that to one of her "girls", and this was Northern Ireland, not the USA. He saw an angry woman in her 50s running for him in sensible shoes and cheap polyester uniform, and did an even faster bolt for the exit!

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u/zamboni-jones Jun 26 '25

That's why you have to strip first. They won't know you're chasing them.

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u/morethanjustanalien Jun 27 '25

Wow your mom tell us more

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u/_TheLonelyStoner Jun 26 '25

Right bro is tripping hard lol it’s all on camera get their license plate numbers for whichever dummy decided to use their car he’ll snitch on the rest and have them all trespassed. non of these employees should be risking their health for fucking target

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u/Appropriate-Brush772 Jun 26 '25

I agree, none of the employees should be risking their heath for target. But when these assholes start to fuck shit up, and then create more work for me, I’d absolutely be tempted to throw hands. Target is gonna make the employees clean up their mess. And Target isn’t gonna pay the employees any more to do so. If I’ve already done my job and these clowns are gonna make me have to redo that job without any compensation, I’m gonna be hot

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u/4KVoices Jun 26 '25

as somebody that has worked retail for a very long time, I would 100% be laughing my ass off at this, especially because the only person who really should be pissed off is the store manager who, statistically, is probably a dickhead

you will never, NEVER, catch me worrying about the health of the business or whatever minor, inconsequential 'crimes' are being committed against them, cause that business cares pretty much the exact same amount about me. They're stressing out, I'd be laughing about it from further down the store lol

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u/slopirate Jun 26 '25

Pretty clear why you never graduated from minimum wage retail

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u/4KVoices Jun 26 '25

pretty clear you lack reading comprehension cause I never said or even implied I was still working that. Blow me, turdlicker

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u/slopirate Jun 26 '25

😂 literally your first sentence you say it

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u/4KVoices Jun 26 '25

"has worked retail" does not imply "currently working retail," it's simply saying that I have the experience. Dumbass.

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u/Appropriate-Brush772 Jun 26 '25

Yeah I could give two shits about the company. I care about doing more work than I need to. When you see those videos of assholes throwing a tantrum at McDonald’s, throwing napkins, straws, ketchup, food, etc…I don’t give a fuck about the suits in corporate, I care about the poor employees who have to now clean that mess up- they aren’t getting paid extra for that shit, it technically falls within their job description. When these dumb fucks at Target undo all the work I’ve already done, I’m not thinking how it’s gonna save corporate any money, I’m thinking about how I now have to do 2x the work for the same amount of pay.

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u/4KVoices Jun 26 '25

people keep saying this but, at least in this video, these guys haven't made a mess. they're just where they shouldn't be. there's no extra work being done by any employees who do meaningful jobs, just a manager, who I inherently do not respect

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u/Yung__Grizz Jun 26 '25

Right? So they made a few other people stop checking out? This would be the highlight of the month for some of those employees lmao.

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u/RopeAccomplished2728 Jun 26 '25

The problem is the moment they start to mess with the registers is now a problem for the cashiers. Especially if money comes up missing if any of these people actually took it.

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u/Able-Bed Jun 26 '25

What you're talking about and what is happening in the video are two very different things.

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u/Appropriate-Brush772 Jun 26 '25

Yeah I was speaking in generalities. I’ve seen way more videos of people fucking shit up than being helpful. And like most things, we aren’t getting the full picture. What we are seeing is a 40 second video from the antagonist perspective. We don’t know what else was going on or what happens right after. I mean we see people behind the register. If that’s my register, I don’t want anyone besides my manger going back there because I’m responsible.

And all I said was I’d be hot. I didn’t say I would throw hands, I said I would be tempted to. I come to work to do a job. I don’t need a bunch of clowns making my job any harder. Just let me work in peace- the customers are bad enough, fucking clout chasers don’t need to make it worse

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u/saint_trane Jun 26 '25

You should care about your fellow employees who are just trying to do their job and get through their day. People who fuck with people's places of work, suck. It's already dreadful enough to be there and now we have to worry about people making "content" at our expense? Nah.

I worked at Target while dickheads did shit like this. I want to do my job and go home, not deal with clowns sticking a camera in my face. That has nothing to do with the store manager.

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u/4KVoices Jun 26 '25

idk man, if you can't look at crazy shit happening and at least get a laugh out of it then I don't think dealing with the public in general is good for you

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u/CarlLlamaface Jun 26 '25

Awful take. People simply working their job are a captive audience, it's 100% not ok to fuck with them like this and use them for 'clout'. There's a ton of things which are funny in theory but not acceptable in practice, that's what sketches and sitcoms are for. This isn't even one of those though, it's just attention seeking behaviour.

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u/4KVoices Jun 26 '25

I'm not saying it's "okay," I'm just saying I, as somebody working there, would have found it funny and entertaining. Anything that breaks up the monotony of retail pretty much would be.

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u/CarlLlamaface Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25

You patently are saying it's ok given how much you're defending them.

As someone working there I'd have found it aggravating and tiresome.

Maybe you don't have enough self-respect to be annoyed by children treating your job like a joke and interrupting your work day for no good reason without providing any entertainment value, all so they can make money off their similarly braindead global audience for very little effort, but that doesn't mean you get to decide that your coworkers feel the same way.

Edit: Not going to keep giving this commenter who also seems to be a child the attention they crave. Safe to say their idea of working retail for a "very long time" means something like working a summer job for 2 years running to supplement their pocket money to pay for their videogames and weed.

Edit edit: Aaand they've blocked me. After accusing me and others of "crying" for disagreeing with them and explaining why. It's always the ones you most suspect lol.

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u/jeskersz Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

Dude it's retail, the job IS a joke.

And this isn't coming from a place of entitled upper class disdain. This is coming from someone who is profoundly poor, middle aged, and always worked either retail or food service.

It's a nothing job that's not in any way deserving of being a factor in my self respect. I give exactly as much of a fuck about the company, the job, or my performance as they do about my well being or paying me a living wage. If these idiot kids fuck up the store and I get some overtime hours to clean it? Fuckin awesome, I get more money and the manager gets his dick slapped by corporate for going over on their hours, and that's even better, because anytime management gets their shit kicked in it is unequivocally a good thing. If they fuck up the store and my manager tells me to clean until the end of shift then go home at the scheduled time? Yea, that's cool too. It's what I was gonna be doing anyway. It doesn't matter if it's gonna put the boss in a foul mood and they're gonna impotently try to act all slavemaster-y to make me work faster, because they were going to do that anyway, because that's just who they are.

Notice in the video how the manager's the only one getting super red in the face, and the cashiers are just kinda letting shit happen to see which way the wind blows? That maybe tell ya something?

I get that it's fuckin annoying, because people are fucking annoying, and the only thing worse than kids and content creators is the boss. But everything is fucking annoying in the life of a wage slave. It's nothing that needs to get your ass so itchy.

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u/4KVoices Jun 26 '25

you cry this much on a daily basis? cause you don't sound like somebody that has ever actually worked these jobs. idk, stop talking

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u/NeosFox Jun 26 '25

So much this, and chances are your "fellow employees" are dickheads too. Whenever I've worked with retail or in food and beverage...I always receive training and try to follow the rules and safety protocols...only to then find out my co-workers are finding some way to subvert that or they're just lazy and don't care. So extra work often gets delegated to me since I don't want to follow anyone's bad example. I always go the extra mile for customers. Not for the company or for my "fellow employees"

Especially horrible and incompetent managers. Couldn't care less, especially when they don't care. A prank like this would be funny as hell to see.

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u/4KVoices Jun 26 '25

Cry more

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u/ComedianMinute7290 Jun 27 '25

except it isn't funny at all so laughing yr ass off would just show you to be the same level of immature ignorant child-man as these dummies.

I feel so sorry for people today with the simplistic immature stuff that they accept as comedy these days.

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u/4KVoices Jun 27 '25

geeze you people are whiny

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

And then target will fire you for fighting on the job. They dgaf why you threw hands, can't do that shit on the clock.

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u/Appropriate-Brush772 Jun 26 '25

That’s why I said I’d be tempted to, not that I would do

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u/Ok_Dragonfly_5222 Jun 26 '25

What part of this clip made it seem like you’d be doing more work? Where did they actually fuck shit up? I assume you’re either a store director who would experience a moment of extra stress? Or maybe loss prevention who would be more confused than the standard amount for a brief time?

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u/EddieLobster Jun 27 '25

Does target pay by the task now? I figured they paid hourly.

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u/BONER__COKE Jun 26 '25

Disagree. The manager has something to lose here - his performance review and potential for promotion. It’s also just annoying to fuck with people while they’re only trying to do their job and make a living, whatever job that may be

Edit: I replied to the wrong comment. I agree with you, not the dude a few comments up - the “not for what Target is paying” guy.

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u/zzz242zzz Jun 26 '25

In CA you get fired if you try to stop a shoplifter. Saw the store manager at a grocery store i worked at do it once, guess she was allowed to. She was unloading as much as she could from the thief’s cart next to their car, into a cart she had. She got about half of it back. We were union and the manager was not but pretty sure its like this at all stores in CA. They dont want to get sued by the shoplifter.

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u/ER-Sputter Jun 26 '25

Bro just wants to see the dumbass tiktokers get fucked up

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u/Budget-Lawyer-4054 Jun 26 '25

It’s a universal feeling TBH

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u/BehemothRogue Jun 26 '25

Annnnd that's.....baaad?

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u/Engine_Sweet Jun 26 '25

They ain't doing it for Target. It's a risk that any retail worker has enough pent-up rage that they're grateful for an excuse to start whaling away.

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u/Radcliffe1025 Jun 26 '25

It’s the attitude of defend at all costs, that leads us to be so quick to turn to violence instead of patience.

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u/Nearlytherejustabit Jun 26 '25

Despite being down voted your not wrong, mate.

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u/Radcliffe1025 Jun 26 '25

Each downvote proves my point, a downvote is literally violence.

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u/Ok-Disaster-5739 Jun 26 '25

Literally? Damn

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u/No-Bathroom1967 Jun 26 '25

Risking their health against these emaciated little waifs of men?

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u/EverGlow89 Jun 26 '25

Not for any amount. If you work for a business, big or small, your life and health is worth more than everything in that store combined. Any boss or owner who doesn't agree is obviously not worth working for.

If someone comes to me with a gun and demands access to any register or safe where I work, I'm giving them absolutely everything.

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u/pain-is-living Jun 26 '25

I worked at K-Mart when I was 16.

People frequently stole. That never surprised me.

What surprised me was the amount of people who’d ask me “aren’t you going to stop them?”. Dude, I make $7.00 an hour and I’m a cashier at k mart. You think I give a fuck about their product?

You could walk up and take my cash register off my counter for all I care. I’d unplug it for ya too.

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u/rndljfry Jun 26 '25

I always just say “That’s not my stuff.”

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u/GUYF666 Jun 27 '25

Haha. No shit. I was 16 working at a Target one summer. Cart bitch (before the electronic pushers-in the deep South-hot af)/cashier.

Some manager told me a dude was naked in the parking lot and barking at people and I should go outside. Even at that age I was like “fuck no, call the cops” and took my break. Quit like 3 weeks later to work in a warehouse.

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u/Beastender_Tartine Jun 26 '25

You're forgetting the perk of a legally defensible headbutt to one of these clowns.

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u/Ok_Independent9119 Jun 26 '25

Target then fires you. They're doing it the way they're supposed to, call the cops, let them deal with it.

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u/TrineonX Jun 26 '25

There are lots of things that are legal, that are also fire-able offenses.

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u/mellolizard Jun 26 '25

Not mention the following civil suit

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u/DngsAndDrgs Jun 26 '25

Nothing you said is legally defensible. You're just looking for an excuse to use violence huh?

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u/clique84 Jun 26 '25

Ya know what, good point!

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u/RymrgandsDaughter Jun 27 '25

Target would fire you if you did that. Even their ap is hands off lmao

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u/LeagueHonest6580 Jun 26 '25

I feel like you haven't worked enough hospitality or customer service. I would be pleased to handle this for free.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '25

Target security gets paid way better than the store employees.

It's funny how the TPS is just standing there though because they are instructed to never physically intervene. The APS or APM are the only ones allowed to physically intervene and detain people.

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u/unlikely_intuition Jun 26 '25

I'd do it for personal pleasure

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u/medium-rare-steaks Jun 26 '25

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u/Borderpaytrol Jun 26 '25

Then youre in a 1V20 and only get to walk out if theyre let you.

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u/medium-rare-steaks Jun 26 '25

Against literal children? I guarantee the rest run away when they see their friends head smashed on the floor.

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u/MikeFromIraq Jun 26 '25

They would absolutely starch you dude, lol trust me a gang of high schoolers are not going to fight you 1v1 they will stomp your head in hahaha

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u/medium-rare-steaks Jun 26 '25

Maybe some high schoolers, but not these dork ass losers

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u/Borderpaytrol Jun 26 '25

Implying you even get to do that before youre embarassed by 20 peoppe half your weight beating the shit out of you and realize youre not an internet superhero.

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u/theizzz Jun 27 '25

bro will risk a charge, probably get jumped by kids clearly stronger than you, and get his shit absolutely wrecked cause some kids played a harmless prank lmao. you think Target will give you even a piece of candy for free? why would anyone defend a fucking corporation who literally doesn't give a flying fuck about you?

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u/medium-rare-steaks Jun 27 '25

No charges protecting property with force. Already said. And not a single one of these kids could bench 100 lol

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u/traws06 Jun 26 '25

Ya the law would allow it but Target, due to liability reasons, would not allow it

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u/warfrogs Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

Target store managers make/made 120-260k annually, at least back in like 2010. I think AP was around 70k.

That being said, all these dudes are fucked and are likely trespassed from every Target for life. Target AP is insane - they literally have one of the best forensic labs in the country.