Talk to the hand

[Pixilated]

So, in the interests of increasing shareholders' profits, my store is continually understaffed these days. Not hideously so (unless, as with the other day, we were pretty slammed, because due to weather predictions, people were preparing for the Apocalypse ), but enough to be annoying.


I get one lady come through my line.
Customer: "Can you wipe this down before I put my food down on it?" (with a very snooty, disdainful look at the belt)
I start to wipe it down with disinfectant which of course now means it's WET.
Now she doesn't know what to do.
I tell her to just unload her stuff at the *other* end (luckily there was nobody behind her) and I scan it through from there.
Customer: "Those belts look awful!"

What she was referring to is marks and scrapes and whatnot just from daily usage (one CW also said it's from the belts being wiped down too often; I have no idea if that's even a thing). Those belts have been there for, as the saying goes, donkey's years.

Me: "Yep."
Customer: "Why don't they replace them??"
Me, having had enough at this point: "Ma'am, you'll have to talk to corporate about that."

Because of course she won't. She'll whine and grizzle to the lowest-paid employees of the store.
Lady, do I *look* like [Company CEO] in drag??

[RealUnimportant]

Depending on what you're wiping them down with and their own composition, it's possible that there's long-term build-up or damage from the chemical interactions. One would hope that somebody might have reviewed the product interations, but I think we all know better than to assume that level of care...