Customer brings books up to the counter for purchase.
Staff member rings up books and states total.
Custom evinces shock and says, "Wait, how much are the books?" --as in, how much is each book?
Staff member then has to walk customer through each item and re-shelve books the customer has decided are too expensive.
Putting aside the subtle clues like each book's price being stated on the physical book, printed above the barcode if new and penciled in front if used--
do these people do this in other establishments, as well?
Do they walk into clothing stores or restaurants or automobile dealerships, never bother to check the prices, and then display astonishment at the bill? Do they expect the person handling the transaction to simply accept whatever amount of money they felt like paying, a figure they nebulously calculated on baseless assumptions?
Who does that? Apparently, an awful lot of people.
Look, if you don't take the price of any object you're buying into consideration at all before you try to buy it, you're either so wealthy that money is no object, or you are, at best, clueless and functionally stunted[1], if not just an asshole.
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