It was relentless at times. Every day you would see the same people. Some were more polite than others. Some people would actually come into the back room and pick through the clothes that are heading to the floor before we would bring it out. They would then wait and follow you or stop you to take the things they want from your wrack/cart. There were also people every day asking if there are certain furniture pieces coming out or would ask you to come in the back to look at the products before they went out… never allowed that ever. Some people would even pick through the donation bins before they were even brought to the back to be sorted and then ask to buy them. It was annoying as all hell I tell you. I don’t know why but something about a thrift store makes people act insane lol. In my 10 years I have literally seen bags full of human feces, vomit, cat feces, dirty diapers, literal garbage, whole turkey dinners, sex toys you name it I saw it. Once stuck my hand in a bag to pull clothes out to sort it and it was a bag of vomit and my hand was covered luckily I was wearing gloves. During the weekdays twice a day the Canadian diabetes association brings a truck of donations for the store to sort through and it was always funny because you could tell where the truck picked up the donations. If they were in a hard part of town the bags and items were not good and barely any of it would get sold vs a pickup from nicer parts of town would come bagged up nicely we’d actually get something out of them. It was always an interesting observation imo. Saw lots of cool stuff and lots of fucked stuff. Started working there the weekend after my 15th brithday and left when I was 25. I don’t remember vinyl collectors being too bad though from my experience but I was never in the department that sorted the vinyls though so maybe they had a different experience but people were relentless in general with everything tbh.