SCARILY accurate game about working retail | Night of the Consumers

[@x10sam]

They should add in a level of difficulty where while you're actively helping a customer, another one cuts you off and demands priority.

[@madibelleasher330]

Oh my god you're evil

[@x10sam]

@@madibelleasher330 yes. :-) but it did also happen fairly often when I worked retail.

[@madibelleasher330]

@@x10sam I don't doubt it! 😭

[@avalonwolf]

Was about to say at least these people wait until the previous customer is helped. I was literally rolling an 8x10 rug today for a customer and another shows up asking if I can move a cabinet. I say yes, just a moment. Not a full minute later they start dragging it across the floor.

[@blumpet6250]

@@avalonwolf when it comes to fast food and shopping, adults become toddlers

[@laurenmueller2207]

26:00 the lady asking for Halloween things and Arin saying “ITS RIGHT HERE” man that was close to home, retail is an incredible feat of man

[@FireRose720]

I work retail in an electronics area. The amount of times I get asked "where are the headphones?" only for me to point at the 6 foot sign that says "HEADPHONES" on the wall....

[@LordandsaverGarryBuecy]

I had a woman ask me were the produce was while standing accross from the produce section.

[@spiwolf6998]

I'm always that person though... I'm sorry I'm just really unobservant when I get in stores and it's like sensory overload. Can't count how many times I asked someone where something was and it was like 2 feet away. 😭

[@FireRose720]

@@spiwolf6998 I mean, as long as they're really nice about it and have a sense of humor, it's chill lol.

[@maj.peppers3332]

As a man who constantly fails to see the thing I'm looking for right in front of me....I'm sorry

[@brandongnuschke3870]

This is the most accurate depiction of working retail I’ve ever seen, right down to the actively trying to hide from customers so you can get tasks done

[@Tardisntimbits]

Sheer terror of being close to the end of your shift, but not having all your stocking done because people are too lazy to walk to the labelled aisle

[@notsure1969]

And throwing boxes at old ladies.

[@mediocreandworse59]

Don't forget the perpetual crying and anxiety

[@McNaBir]

And the vomiting 👏😭

[@strawberryfaes]

i just quit my job at a grocery store, awful stuff lol

[@AlexaBosse]

the way the manager expects a slow day so they only schedule 1 person on the floor, not anticipating it being a madhouse, is scarily accurate

[@leeannabanana287]

:,)

[@jupreindeer]

Why spend a dollar when a penny will suffice...

[@gigglestheclown13]

I don't know if the dude at the start was scheduled to work with you and just quit or he was the only person on morning shift and just had enough 😅😅😅

[@kp6378]

They expect "a slow day" in the same way customer service lines experience "a higher than normal call volume".

[@zephricus2089]

“I can’t think of a better possible ending than getting fired.” Wow, hit the nail on the head.

[@mikem2299]

Best part is you never knew it was the best possible ending like unlocking a secret by accident 😂. Everyone I know still in retail is miserable lol

[@SheaWaiteAMDG]

I currently work in retail and “I don’t have any time to stock shelves” and “it’s so relaxing when there’s nobody around” is too real

[@cakiepop2038]

@@annoyanceking I work in the bakery at a grocery store. My job is solely to ice and decorate cakes and cupcakes. People will really walk up to the bakery counter and ask me if I can get produce from the back. Like, no??? Do you think that when you work this minimum wage job you're trained for all the departments?? Why would you walk up to the person covered in icing holding a piping bag and ask them for raspberries??

[@cakiepop2038]

@@annoyanceking I'm dying laughing 😂 what kind of idiot do you have to be to ask a DELI CLERK for the cake you ordered?? 🥲 Reminds me of when all the deli staff were out on vacation watching a football game and people kept coming to the bakery asking us if we could get them some bones for bone marrow!!

[@carriecake_]

For real :') I work at the Dollar Tree and they expect me to be on my register and stocking boxes all at once, even when I'm the only cashier working!

[@TinyToadSage]

@@annoyanceking I got in a shitton of trouble for doing that once :') "So sorry, I only work in seafood." "WHERE IS YOUR MANAGER?!?!?"

[@michaelsimmons8613]

To properly capture the experience you need to be "rewarded" at the end of the shift with the "opportunity for additional hours" and be asked/told to stay late for your shift

[@KelseyDrummer]

Or a pizza party.

[@michaelsimmons8613]

@@KelseyDrummer only for the openers, closers get complaints and scowls for food.

[@elliekitten556]

@@michaelsimmons8613 try working nights 🥲 we get to clean all the empty boxes and chips, and half full cans AS WELL AS the tables from day shift.

[@justcommoncurt]

@@KelseyDrummer This. This sucks everywhere. As someone who easily gets sick from greasy food, I wish having a budget for events to "boost morale" would get cut so they could just pay me more...

[@KelseyDrummer]

@@justcommoncurt Honestly! My company has cut so much I was blessed with a $10 uber eats code for Christmas though so...

[@BionicKraken]

I've worked retail for about 15 years now. This is absolutely what it's like all the time. The anxiety of trying to get your laundry list of tasks done but constantly being bombarded with stupid questions and then getting asked why things didn't get done on time when the boss knows damn well it was because of customers stopping us from doing our jobs. Retail workers (also food workers) are the most underpaid for the amount of stress and agony we go through on a daily basis. I had a 20lb weightlifting plate thrown at me once because a customer freaked out we didn't have the treadmill he wanted, luckily I avoided it but he literally tried to kill me over not having a product in stock. Retail is hell.

[@twitchyb9950]

I’m sure real retail workers wish they could throw boxes at customers to stun them.

[@gama343]

There would be so many dead... Worth it, though.

[@lopsidedbear6301]

I wish I could slap just one person a month. Just one.

[@lachlanwood61]

I was close once. Had taken 5 steps out of the back room with a big box of new stock and was asked for help. I stared at them for about 3 seconds then dropped the box right at their feet and was like yeah what do you need. They were like where are the DVDs... That section literally took up a quarter of the store it's impossible to miss

[@GaianEntertainment]

To stun them, to vent, or just for fun. Box throwing would have made retail much more bearable. My current, non-retail, job has some of the same frustrations from co-workers instead. We don't have boxes and throwing hard metal at people is a bit more extreme than I'd like.

[@bubblyxbunny]

I want to soooo badly 😂🤣

[@LaceNWhisky]

The fact that there are SO MANY indie horror games about working retail really says a lot about what it's like to work retail.

[@westingtyler1]

wait can you name some other indie horror games about working retail? i wanna check out the best ones.

[@alexconn7473]

I work in retail as a service clerk and I can tell you it's hell I may not have a lot of customer interaction but the job is damn near impossible on certain days and even on days where it's not too busy it still isn't a cakewalk

[@LaceNWhisky]

@@alexconn7473 Solidarity, bro. I feel ya. I left retail in 2007 and I still occasionally get nightmares about my time working it.

[@YetiUprising]

I'm glad a developer finally made an accurate representation of working retail.

[@teistooher8844]

it really does recreate one of the worst feelings in retail, which is when one person asks you a question, and then another person asks you for something, and then it just doesn't stop for ten minutes.

[@MigattenoBlakae]

@@teistooher8844 ten minutes if you’re lucky. 30+ if you’re not. I worked at Menards (home improvement store in case you don’t have them near you) in *the grocery section* . The average person who gets groceries there is at least 174 years old and very entitled as well. People would whistle at me like I was a dog and expect me to drop my shit and come running to them. What a damn nightmare.

[@purgeutopia8696]

I worked Walmart. I don't need to say anything else.

[@MigattenoBlakae]

@@purgeutopia8696 RIP😫

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

It says a lot to me that we all talk about working retail like we escaped Alcatraz

[@loli_cvnt5622]

At least alcatraz has food I guess

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

@@loli_cvnt5622 ... holy shit lmao

[@albatrossthedragon]

The best way to go about it is to put all the boxes in the right aisle. Time doesn’t start and enemies don’t activate till the first box is put away.

[@kendra4932]

THATS SO SMART omg

[@sapherno11]

@@kendra4932 yeah Markiplier came up with it literally when he covered the game when it just came out.

[@GenericProtagonist7]

"Enemies" That is how I referred to customers when I worked in retail too.

[@BonkysDingDongHut]

Arin saying “oh there’s a safe zone. We’ll remember that” and then running past 2 doors is *chefs kiss* 😂

[@HawtDawg420]

It's so Game Grumps!

[@klausbaudelaire5754]

Dan was the one who said, "Oh, that's awesome. We'll remember that." (16:50)

[@howiedenaven]

To be fair it’s hard to remember the safe room when you first start out.

[@pengabob]

The only thing this is missing is having to repeatedly explain extremely basic things that are written on the box to a customer.

[@some_williott]

"Does this use batteries or does it charge?" "How much is in this?" "Would this look nice in my living room?" Like, damn.

[@TheBusNinja]

And maybe the need to stop EVERYTHING to go gather carts in the parking lot

[@skadiyoko]

When there isn’t a price sticker on an item, and they ask how the cashier will know how much it is, and you have to explain barcodes 😭

[@pengabob]

@@skadiyoko "Why don't you know this? Don't they train you?"

[@i9incher]

Or knocking on watermelons to tell which is more ripe.

[@gregpalmer7133]

I worked at a CVS for 8 years, including as a shift manager. I have definitely hid from customers, and stopped stocking a shelf in order to move to a different aisle and escape. And people WILL push through what might normally be considered an obstacle, like a display or shelving, in order to get to you. Retail is about survival.

[@ashbankston9892]

I like how Dan's immediately resentful towards the management 69 seconds in. Retail is literally that terrible.

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

Not nice!

[@grabble7605]

They weren't even playing at 69 seconds in. Weird lie.

[@stevendemayo3631]

@@grabble7605 69 seconds into the gameplay, dummy

[@ashbankston9892]

@@grabble7605 lol u caught me, ur soooooo smart. Except 300 people got the joke and didn't, "detective."

[@zippedmouthgaming5637]

@@grabble7605 Loser mentality

[@TheBestVirginian]

the most accurate part of this game is how the manager is nowhere to be found while customers need help

[@Outlaw88]

As someone who works in a grocery store, this game sets off my anxiety.. On my day off.

[@Khotetsu]

When Mark played this a few years back, he actually talked about how he started memorizing the layout of the store like he did back when he actually worked retail and using similar strategies to avoid customers and get stuff done, gave him like a minor PTSD moment.

[@BlueFlames094]

@@Khotetsu and you really shouldn’t have to say that about a job too. Retail is a scary profession especially when most adults and just oversized children.

[@kathytiedje4767]

Anyone else have to work Black Friday in the early 2000s? That shit was harrowing. Never go back!!

[@bigschmill294]

DUDE I work grocery and I feel you

[@Mecha_Melody]

Legit I came down here to say the same thing lmao. Made it half way through and couldn’t manage the rest

[@NinjaYakitori]

Don't forget customers picking stuff up off the shelves, deciding they don't want it later, and just putting back in whatever spot they're in at the time. Or digging through the food products to get the "freshest" items and then leaving them in a complete disarray for you to organize yet again. Perfect depiction of retail, kudos to the developers, you nailed it.

[@rosemilk6769]

i sure hope arin doesn't skip any tutorials and get stressed about working in retail. which... would be pretty accurate to working in retail!

[@unoriginalcontent7756]

Yes.

[@megadan268]

Except in retail they sometimes skip the tutorial for you

[@megadan268]

Cuz they just don't give you one

[@crcoghill]

I mean: i worked at Party City and we watched a video as well as get told what to do. Maybe your job just sucked.

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

It's funny how people complain about working in retail but you rarely hear about people working in nursery complain. Because once if them is weak and whiny.

[@sampsonwillis8266]

I will now never ask a retail worker a question ever again 😂

[@HExtraordinaire]

As long as you're polite and respectful, most people will help you

[@leomdk939]

@@annoyanceking No, you can definitely interrupt us unpacking a box. The customer is way more important than a box. Just be polite! That's it! If you think a customer question is an 'inconvenience' you need to get your head straight about why you are there. Customers are the #1 priority, not a box! I work retail, too. The box is secondary.

[@Ninjahiccups_]

@@leomdk939 I think it isn't the "inconvenience" that's the issue, it's that we get an angry manager if we don't get everything done even though they'll also say to prioritize customers. I've had several like that over my 7 years in retail. But even if your manager is more understanding, unfortunately not everyone is made for retail. Getting pulled in a bunch of directions can be really hard for some and most people have to work retail at some point in their life. Between my list of tasks and having someone need me every few minutes I've had plenty of panic attacks on the job.

[@jontobin5942]

Ask but tell them to "just point" because often managers tell us we have to stop and walk the customer to the right spot.

[@MigattenoBlakae]

@@leomdk939 “the box is secondary,” no, I was literally a STOCKER. My job was to STOCK.

[@benjaminroberts8396]

Arin saying “I don’t know where the microwaves are!!” While holding the box for kitchen is amazing

[@micheljavert5923]

He probably thought that Kitchen just meant dishes, glassware, and utensils. Classic retail rookie mistake

[@benedictroberts678]

Cool name

[@benjaminroberts8396]

@@benedictroberts678 B Roberts gang unite

[@somegeese]

a normal story would put these in appliances, or not sell them.

[@anthonybowman3423]

Not knowing where a specific product is and getting stressed as customers get mad at you is also part of the retail experience.

[@Paint_The_Future]

When I worked produce in a store and someone asked me for something outside of that department, I'd have to tell them I don't know because I literally never leave my department. Then I would stare at them and whisper, "They won't let me leave..." A single tear drop cascades.

[@daisukidesu5945]

same here. i fucking hate it when customers get mad when i'm not an omnipotent being at their service and i know exactly what they're looking for, where it is, and that i can perfectly understand their hillbilly accent

[@loli_cvnt5622]

We have these birthday boxes at work. Where people can put stuff their kid picked out so friends can come buy shit the kids ActUALlY want. God forbid, I tell them they can't put one up 6 weeks before the birthday. Yesterday a coworker told someone "yeah you can make one two weeks in advance, just collect stuff" and she legit freaked out and said ITS TOMORROW IN TWO WEEKS, I GUESS THATS FINE?! I COULD GO SOMEWHERE ELSE YKNOW!? Please do it, please go somewhere else. Please take that hour drive to the next city with a toy store, pls I'm begging you, never come back 😭 Please ;a;

[@EricaDahlia]

Throwing the boxes at the customers is both the funniest and satisfying thing ever.

[@jontobin5942]

I found that a brisk "I'm on a mission" walk helps keep them away. Even when I was doing nothing or walking directly toward a customer to offer help myself. The "I know what I'm doing and I'm confident in my environment" walk gets you a few notches of extra respect right away. I'm sure being a tall man didn't hurt either.

[@colinbuchanan8776]

Everyone that's worked retail had a cathartic moment right there haha

[@swardy27]

This game is 100% accurate, "WHY ARE THE SHELVES ALWAYS EMPTY" Cuz you wont effin leave me alone long enough to work! lol

[@skippythealien9627]

admittedly, the pandemic did fuck up everything. feel like it was never as bad as it is these days. either way, working retail absolutely sucks. i did the 4 to 10 a.m. shift and we would never be able to fully stock up the store before we opened it up. it was always so damn frustrating

[@bekahbabie]

Every time a box gets hurled at a customer’s feet as they’re charging after you and you see them just _slump_ it has me cackling 💀 its such a perfect mix of slapstick comedy and vicarious revenge lmao

[@yahoo12345jojo]

That poor old woman 😂

[@The_RocketBee]

arin breaking down crying while being overwhelmed with customers is so real

[@GreenCorgiQueen]

I was hoping they'd eventually play this game! The visuals are so unsettling it's perfect

[@Jrock420blam]

I was hoping the same, watched Markiplier play it a while back and thought it would be perfect for the grumps

[@AtomicF0x]

Yeah, I remember this coming out back when covid had just hit, so it imprinted on me. Still, interesting to see the Grumps finally playing it.

[@bendystrawz2832]

Now we just need multiplayer, mwahaha

[@MigattenoBlakae]

“How bad can it be?” 1:50 OH GOD WHY

[@neniv]

I would love to see Arin play something like this with a heart rate monitor so we can see how close he is to a cardiac arrest.

[@mimik222]

This is super accurate because the customers come up to you and ask where stuff is instead of reading the damn signs

[@KairiKH21]

I like when atores have the little map brochures because *anxiety and i dont want to bithwr workers

[@NODnuke45]

I was never under the assumption that reading the isle signs was an achievement I could be proud of, yet here I am... lol

[@Rowcan]

I was about to say it's a shame you can't memorize the store and just respond with a button push like "They need pets, pets is 5!" _However,_ knowing customers they'd just be like "WHERE IS FIVE"

[@easytherecowboy6978]

@@NODnuke45 It's always a painful fact that, because of the bell curve, half the population is dumber than the average person.

[@foxisretrofitting4556]

@@Rowcan I can confirm. Used to work stocking shelves at a grocery store and the Gigantic easy to read signs right above our heads that had isle number and whats on said isle never got read. I frequently had the experience of "its on the bake isle which is isle 9" to which the customers response is "where's isle 9?"

[@kalespoir]

Dan’s “Thank you for shopping at Walgreens!” was too damn real for me. This game is a real nightmare 😅

[@TheFinnSteele]

As someone who spent 10 years working in retail, I can confirm that this is exactly what it's like. Especially the part where you avoid customers at all costs so they don't speak to you.

[@RangerMcFriendly]

That’s me now in the break room.

[@DreamingHearts]

This is why I only work in the warehouse. xD

[@Scrofar]

Have you ever gotten to to throw boxes at the customers to stun them?

[@ZaraKendall]

you are much stronger than most people that's for sure. I've worked in retail for only two months and I want to quit every day 😅

[@IslanKleinknecht]

He finally notices there's safe zones, and then proceeds to run right past them during chases. I love Arin.

[@xeilius0]

If you're wondering what the dialogue they skipped at 3:40 is, he says "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE! I DON'T GET PAID ENOUGH FOR THIS!"

[@RangerMcFriendly]

The last words of every retail worker on quitting day!

[@Sygmus6]

I used to work in a back room of a department store but even that wasn't safe. A customer was so insistent that the system could be wrong and we MIGHT have a shoe in her size somewhere in the back, they bullied a sales associate to have me dragged out and tell her that I, in fact, checked and it wasn't back there.

[@icymcspicy6684]

Shoe Department?

[@Sygmus6]

@@icymcspicy6684 Women's shoes department at a Macy's.

[@DeltaWeeb]

ah yes, this game gets it. The whole experience is just hanging on to the edge of an anxiety attack and it's so goddamn accurate

[@justin99000]

@22:30 arin was milliseconds away from getting it, they always have such amazing timing snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

[@Esskay2186]

I just love the occasional, distant hysterical laughter coming from Allie in the background.

[@LadyCartoonCritic]

it always makes me giggle when she looses it XD

[@jet100a]

This game is very scarily accurate depiction of retail.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

She's my favorite grump lol

[@jimhirl2194]

Right? That’s how you know it’s a good bit

[@falconJB]

Gamegrumps reinventing the life studio audience.

[@dudelyman5000]

One thing that's not accurate is that other customers won't bother you while you're helping someone else, because they absolutely can and will

[@HappyElsen]

1000% they will. I don't know if it makes me more happy or scared to get the customers that will curse out the second customer for interrupting. Like, please don't actually fist fight in the store, but thank fuck someone can tell them off for being a dick.

[@wildfluffyappeared]

After working retail for four years I’m so desensitized that I didn’t realize at first this was supposed to be a horror game

[@MagdalenRose]

This had got to be one of the most anxiety-inducing games I’ve ever seen. Im both impressed and repulsed

[@BriDaJedi]

Going through that "Plate Up" withdrawal. I gotta see how Cindy and Pierre manage their Pizza restaurant.

[@anotheryoutbechannel]

I need a 60 part series

[@BriDaJedi]

Same, I could watch them play it everyday

[@NatsumeRyu]

saaame

[@slightlyuncomfortable]

Plate Up means so much to me.

[@anotheryoutbechannel]

@@slightlyuncomfortable i wish i had friends to play it with

[@najoheuer]

Suggestion: the timer doesn't start until you start stocking your first box. You could probably move all the boxes to the right aisles before you start, that should save a lot of time.

[@raimarulightning]

Better suggestion: unionise retail workers

[@michaellink4806]

@@raimarulightning the reason a union wont help in retail is a union can only fight with the company, we need a way to educate customers on how seriously they negatively impact themselves with these behaviors. If they knew how much less products would cost if they didn't make every single task in retail 10x more time consuming than it needs to be, they'd be horrified.

[@Critrol]

@@michaellink4806 Your belief in the "kindness" of human nature is beutiful but incorrect. The public at large would simply think that they're job sucks too (it does) and don't give a damn about your issues. After all, you're "just" a grocery worker.

[@naerwhal2891]

As someone who professionally stocks shelves: I can barely get my job done because of how often I get asked to get something for a customer

[@RangerMcFriendly]

This game has the greatest use of sarcastic anger in it. A giant Eff You to customers and managers. It’s awesome! Ugly, insufferable people.

[@altonframe5062]

You’re a professional stocker? Lmao

[@naerwhal2891]

@@altonframe5062 Stocking shelves is technically my profession at the moment so I take every chance I get to pretend it’s better than it actually is lmao

[@kimayacutie4447]

I must ask, What should costumer do if they can’t find an item?

[@RFlash-xc4lo]

You just slow at it boy! Work faster!

[@terrasilvershade5678]

When Arin started crying I felt that in my soul. Worked at Amazon and Disney as well as fast food and retail.

[@clemfandango4442]

You know you're in for a good time when the episode starts with both Arin and Allie laughing in the background before Dan can even do the introduction.

[@Littlemisshorrorx]

Hard mode is when you have two customers wanting something on either side of the store but you also have to use the bathroom.

[@chenstormstout9456]

God the way the Manager speaks is scarily accurate to what I experience weekly.

[@Alicecantdraw]

Perfect way to relax on my day off from my retail job. Experiencing the exact same anxiety I suffer day in and day out

[@directorjake]

Every time Arin does a voice like he does for The Manager or the one he does in Bee and Puppycat, I remember how good of a voice actor Arin actually is.

[@Icerope-km9lu]

And Grubba from TTYD

[@gizoginjr]

Who does he voice in Bee and Puppycat?

[@pokyfawks3705]

@@gizoginjr He for sure voices Omelette (little brown dog). Pretty sure he's in the original (better, less rushed season on youtube) and not in lazy in space, but I could be wrong. He's also voiced some sort of Pterodactyl in The Girl From Dinosaur Island (Nickelodeon short on youtube) and done voice work for Mighty Magiswords (Dan sung the theme as well). But I'm just an animation nerd, please let me know if I've missed any other super cool ones. He's never a lead, so he's easy to miss.

[@DragonStarForever]

The "birthday game" episode was my favorite. He was the male voice for bee, the elder bird and some of the other birds in cloud world.

[@pokemaster374]

@@gizoginjr he voices the cool brother that likes to fish and does what he wants, I forgot his name but pupycat really liked him and tried to imitate him

[@AnimeFluxYT]

Know how some countries like Sweden have mandatory military service? North America should have 1-2 years mandatory retail work, specifically dealing with customers. Perhaps if more people had a bit more empathy from their own time "serving", the retail experience might not be the hell-on-earth that it currently is.

[@TheAstralFencer]

They captured the true hell of working in retail with this game, it’s uncanny.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

the doom graphics sell it lol

[@MrChristianDT]

The prosecco lady popping up twice reminds me of one time I had to help someone that I swear had Alzheimers. They kept coming up to me, asking for the same exact thing the same exact way, I would tell them, then they'd take a walk around the store, come right back & do it again. Happened at least ten times before he actually left.

[@WilBgames]

You're definitely in a retail prank youtube or tiktok video somewhere.

[@goatloaf198]

Working in retail on black friday is equivalent to the zombie apocalypse in my book edit: thank you all for sharing your war stories

[@JuBeeZ106]

I have worked on Black Friday, pretty sure I had a nervous breakdown

[@goatloaf198]

​@@JuBeeZ106 you are a brave soul

[@TheApochRaptor]

One year I literally got trampled trying to get into the break room to clock in for my shift.

[@BknMoonStudios]

People literally die because of human stampedes during those sales. It's a living nightmare!

[@hinata167]

I think there's actually a movie about retail workers working on Black Friday during a zombie apocalypse

[@threefiftyzzz]

As a 20 year retail supermarket worker this is so accurate. The hr of peace and quiet that I get to work in the morning before we open is so productive. In the real world the product that you're trying to stock is almost always where a customer is just loitering in front of.

[@HappyElsen]

That shit is the worst. They stand in front of the item they're looking at, and put their shopping cart lengthwise behind them to block the entire aisle so you can't even go around them to stock a different item while you wait for them to leave. Fun times.

[@frankielasvegas5756]

The worst is the daily use stuff cleaning supplies, personal care, health and beauty always get the most traffic in terms of people.

[@thealmightytuttle]

I watch game grumps so I can relax and get a break from stress, but this game is kind of stress evoking 😂

[@BenersantheBread]

Despite the game's best efforts it took Arin 17 whole minutes to realise you can hide in the staff rooms. Not to mention it took him 10 minutes to realise you can sprint.

[@thebookofeli1105]

God I don't miss retail at all

[@dilemma08]

Worst 6 years of my life.

[@andrewjenkins9965]

I kinda miss getting the shelves all nice and neat... but then the customers come and put things in the wrong shelves, sometimes opened and half-eaten, or leaking everywhere...

[@hatsunethaddaus596]

@@andrewjenkins9965 or taking food that’s supposed to be cooled out of the freezer just to put it somewhere in the vegetables to melt and rot

[@chrisskipper8094]

What's it like on the outside?

[@M00NdaYn]

@@chrisskipper8094 Amazing.

[@playlistsforbordem]

This is exactly how it felt to run register and stock at the same time. Literally sprinting back and forth. this game is absolutely accurate including finding a woman's baby and her expecting you to find it and bring it back to her, not help at all. Edit: The stock rate at Dollar Tree is 52 boxes an hour. And you have to cashier at the same time. You WILL be reprimanded for every box not completed no matter how busy it gets.

[@cheyfrost]

That's fucking insane... 52 BOXES???

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

This right here is the reason why I take off my lab coat going into and out of the pharmacy. People see a uniform and start asking where to find things. I DON'T KNOW! LEAVE ME ALONE!

[@RangerMcFriendly]

I just bring a sweater. Sometimes I keep it on for 30 minutes after we open. Lol.

[@idman4081]

I have the same problem pushing carts at a Walmart. If I go inside for any reason, I take off my vest. I don't care that I'm still on the clock. The customers deserve to be able to ask questions to people who might actually know the answer, and I deserve to not be bothered on my way to the bathroom!

[@FullMetalMakubeX]

There was one time when I used to work retail that I had my winter coat on making my way to the exit after my shift, no indication anywhere that I worked there, and a customer still stopped me to ask me a question. It's like she could smell it on me.

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

@@FullMetalMakubeX somehow, they always know!

[@ThomasBearsOfficial]

When I was an EMT and went into a pharmacy on my break people would walk up to me and ask me shit like I worked wherever I just happened to be lol. I just showed them my tag and walked away, dumb bastards

[@CasualRacerRed]

I've worked in retail for 10 years -and I can say this game is pretty accurate

[@luketaylor9569]

Arin: Where do I find Kitchen appliances?!? Kitchen aisle:

[@requiemforameme1]

Mark: “Ahhhh… are you here for _ovens_ perhaps?”

[@ThisIsNotMyUsername]

This brought me back to working at a clothing store. Whenever I saw a customer, I'd pretend to be customer so that they wouldn't approach me.

[@blackdragoncyrus]

So, Ghoul Grumps has pretty much started, just without the special intro, right?

[@ImoowhenIPoo]

Maybe they forgor ☠️

[@gasolinejoy]

They'll do a couple spooky episodes this week, but Ghoul Grumps with the intro starts next wee

[@BigHailFan]

As someone that has worked both retail and fast food....this game awakens an innate fear in me.

[@XanBcoo]

There being a safe zone to hide from customers is so true

[@Archgeek0]

The fact that it's an interruption from what they're supposed to be doing is why I am both polite and friendly when requesting assistance, and only do so when I'm genuinely unsure which section a specific thing might be in due to some ambiguity, or when I'm not finding something specific but suspect I may have overlooked it somewhere I didn't expect it to be.

[@willoween-witch]

right, like I will circle a store twice before asking for directions and even then I'll usually just ask which aisle it's on and then find it myself.

[@endless_del]

i work night shift grocery now and the store is closed when i'm on the clock, but when i worked days, i genuinely loved helping customers who were polite! especially if the thing they were looking for was specific and obscure (2 occasions that come to mind are pimentos and caspers) because it made me feel good to flex my useless information of knowing where everything in the store is right down to the shelf and location numbers haha also a little helpful tip i gathered: most of the time when a customer can't find something, it's on the very top or very bottom shelf, or it's hidden behind those stupid strips with products on them that dangle in front of the shelf. so if you're pretty sure about the general location but still can't find it, try looking there. thanks for being a polite customer, we need more people like you around ❤️

[@CoopenhagenX]

I havent worked retail since 2009 fortunately. But this is shockingly accurate and brings back memories even after all these years. ...retail positions should all come with paid therapy...

[@Khotetsu]

I worked at a fish market for over a decade, which is like this but instead of having to chauffeur people around the store because they can't be bothered to read the signs, you get yelled at for cutting a piece of fish to 1.01lbs instead of 1lb, and I still have nightmares about it occasionally.

[@loli_cvnt5622]

Paid anger management classes please, these people be testing their limits. My patience is so thin at this point.

[@carriecake_]

I just need better pay :') $9 an hour really isn't cutting it for me lol

[@BlindTomoe]

i lost my shit everytime Arin nailed a customer with a box 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ZenSolipsist]

I’m glad they took a break from Backrooms to play a real horror game: *retail* 😂

[@andrewjenkins9965]

Ah, retail. Where being in the backrooms is a rare, yet sweet, mercy.

[@dillonie]

To everyone else working in retail, bless your soul

[@seeminglyawesomeanimations6920]

Can’t wait to watch this right before going to my nighttime retail Job :,)

[@unoriginalcontent7756]

Mood

[@seeminglyawesomeanimations6920]

Still here, and I have yet to have to throw a box at anyone or find a baby, so I think we’re doing good

[@HExtraordinaire]

Godspeed to you bud

[@sabNavyA]

As a former Walmart associate, I like how the store is divided by consumables and general merchandise, makes it feel like an actual store

[@caitlintheroux5804]

“We’re not busy.” Three words to disaster in any job, 100x worse in retail.

[@verbatim545]

The best part is when they walk into the store, look around for a second, then approach you like they didn’t intend to do that right from the start.

[@Arata987]

Having a mental breakdown while playing this just add to the experience of a real retail worker simulator.

[@RangerMcFriendly]

Thank God non-retail workers can experience our pain.

[@Khotetsu]

@@RangerMcFriendly I have always said, if I get elected president, screw mandatory military service - 2 years mandatory retail service for everybody. Would either make the world a nicer place or destroy it.

[@The_Glorious_Goat]

The sheer terror of moving along the outskirts of the store, boxes in hand, hoping no one sees you to stop you is terrifyingly accurate. The only thing this is missing is the tedium of getting something heavy up a ladder finally and a customer stops you to ask you to show them something on the complete other side of the store while you're trying desperately not to drop things on the floor.

[@coreymartin9630]

I can't believe that this is one of the most genuinely scary games that I've seen

[@robertkillingsworth8022]

I'd love to see them do another episode of this. A little tip though. At the beginning the timer nor customers appear until the first item is stocked so a really good strategy would be to find all the boxes and place them in the appropriate aisles then start stocking so you only have to go to the aisles and not hint down boxes

[@Dot_Executables]

This game really reminds me of working retail. The absolute incompetence and entitlement of customers, horrible working conditions, horrible pay, and managers whose only job is to sit on their ass and fire people. Retail is horror.

[@grabble7605]

Why, yes, that IS the entire point of the game.

[@Dot_Executables]

@@grabble7605 I know. I love this game. Played it a few times.

[@Missfaithhere]

Finally, a realistic retail simulator

[@AnalogStick95]

I was fired from retail. Best thing to ever happen to me

[@shokotwokawa9695]

I work as a personal shopper at Walmart. On our off time we have to help stock so I experience a lot of this, but the biggest pain of my department is trying to navigate a huge tote filled cart around slow moving people and little kids running rampant that would get crushed. While timed.

[@quizzitykae]

Arin's rushed and panicked breathing is exactly what 4-8 hours a day looked like for me when I worked retail. I hate how accurate this game is... right down to the manager hiding in the back/office bc they don't want to do their job 😭🤣

[@criesinotaku]

Only two things I would add to this beautiful game; 1: the music is too nice and pleasant. In retail, good music is forbidden. To be even more accurate to real life the music needs to be ear grading shallow pop music and/or any country song ever. 2: being able to memorize the layout of the store gives too much leeway to the player and therefore inaccurate to the experience of retail. By randomizing the store at the start of every game, you will really capture the raw hopeless impending doom type of anxiety that is often customary of retail careers. Just a thought 😅

[@cs82271]

First time I saw someone play this, I hadn't worked retail and thought it was funny, but clearly a crazy over-exaggeration. Now that I have worked retail... it couldn't be more accurate

[@csharper23]

John Wolf had a great run of the game. Put all the boxes where they go before you put anything away. Because the people don’t trigger until you put a box away

[@prrrismo]

Coryxkenshin did the same thing

[@frankielasvegas5756]

Mark did that too. Dan was starting to get that idea but they stopped before they got to it.

[@sheodagana2863]

Arin: Oh my god I don't even have time to stock the shelves Yup, that tracks.

[@andrewjenkins9965]

"Stock the shelves. Actually, can you get the carts? Actually, someone made a mess in chemicals and I need you to clean it. Hey, we don't have any carts. Have you finished stocking the shelves yet?"

[@sheodagana2863]

@@andrewjenkins9965 Oh and can you get the reshop?

[@casiedragmire4686]

This is JUST LIKE the store I used to work at. The customers grabbing you while to do other tasks, giving you weird incomprehensible directions when they need to find something, asking for products you're pretty sure no store in the history of stores has ever sold, it's just like a horror game. And this horror game is just like it.

[@parkourfever4633]

Arin: "But I went as fast as I could!" Arin 10 seconds later: "Oh, I can run"

[@JoseNate]

This is very accurate, I work in retail and try to avoid annoying customers when I'm stocking as well!

[@stspy212]

Oh my god I just realized why working retail is so awful. You aren't just doing one job, you're doing like 3. If it was JUST stocking shelves then sure whatever, anybody can do that. If it was JUST helping customers find shit, that's fine too. If it was JUST working the register, that's also easy. But combine all three and allow any one of them to interrupt any of the others at a moment's notice? That is hell. Stores really need designated personnel for each job. I wouldn't mind doing the shelf stocking specifically so I could tell people to fuck off when they come up to me and try to get me to do somebody else's job.

[@KnusperShorts]

me: *lays down* "enough for today. time to get some sleep" gamegrumps: *uploas a video* me: "enough sleep. time for gamegrumps"

[@jruler44]

Arin and Danny would be great people to work with in the hellish nightmare of a retail job like this. This game is scary accurate to real life. Hang in there grumps we've all tried to stock shelves with crazy customers around

[@spyke2856]

watching this while getting ready for work - the first job I've ever had that's not customer service - was an excellent reminder not to take this one for granted. like I'm tired as shit all the time because working with kids can be a nightmare sometimes but I'm also ✨free✨

[@Bloodshotistic]

When Arnold fucking chucked that box at the customer at 9:41, the phlegm in my throat cleared out from laughing so hard.

[@stank865]

Finally a game that perfectly encapsulates what it was like to work at target

[@perspectives8203]

6:03 One of the paint cans just says "PAIN"

[@CrazyMellow]

This is 1000% accurate 🤣 trying to get the shelves stocked and people are constantly asking you questions.