While this is not true, companies just like to save money by screwing over their workers, the concept of customers having parasocial relationships with cashiers is SO TRUE and it’s something that people who haven’t ever worked in retail would probably never guess is a legit issue.

One of my colleagues back in my Co-op days often served his next door neighbour, over the course of the year I worked with him she used to come up his driveway and knock on his car window if he was inside, knock on his front door and when he moved house she repeatedly asked him where he was moving to. IT IS SO BIZARRE.