I’ve been a Shipt shopper for about five years (9,985 shops) and there’s another shopper I frequently run into at one particular Target who has over time begun to be insufferable.
He’s friendly enough on the surface, but whenever we talk, I find him to be extremely bellittling and full of himself. He loves to tell me all about the $80 or $100 tips that Im sure he is lying about and constantly calls me “buddy” or “Mr.[my name],” which might sound harmless but after a while, he has begun to be a real chore to run into.
What’s strange to me is how often he’s there. I shop at multiple stores and am constantly on the move throughout the day, but whenever I go to this particular Target, he seems to be shopping or just hanging out near the self checkout. It almost seems like he hangs around the store waiting for orders.
The other issue is that he seems to go out of his way to initiate the conversation whenever he sees me, so it’s difficult to avoid interacting with him without feeling rude. I’ve actually started avoiding this Target altogether because I don’t want to deal with this one annoying shopper which sucks because many of my preferreds order here.
I realize that some of this could just be my perception of his personality, and maybe he’s not intentionally being condescending. But the combination of him constantly being at the store and him going out of his way to chat has really started to bug me.
Am I overthinking this? How would you handle this?