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Work in retail long enough, and you'll eventually realize the rules for dealing with Customers are exactly the same as dealing with the Fae:
Avoid eye contact.
Never reveal your full name.
Accept nothing They offer you.
Never verbally agree or disagree with anything They might happen to say.
To apologize is to acknowledge a debt owed.
Under no circumstances are you ever to thank Them.
Remember that They are incapable of reading signs in human languages.
How long ago and in which country? Because it seems particularly the US is seen as a bad place for that and especially recently.
It's in the US, and it's been a minute, but things have always been bad regarding customers. You just gotta know how to handle the bad ones.