# Supermarket checkout combinations re-revisited.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 5, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176 "2004-09-05T03:26:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/1 "2004-09-05T03:26:47Z")
So I was at the grocery store buying a frozen pizza, 'cause well, I’m a bachelor and I have to eat too.
There was a lady in front of me at the checkout she was attractive, blonde, older, maybe 40’ish or just under. Tall too. Worth a second look ya know. Well… she had two items she was buying which made me do a double take and well… quite frankly question her sexyness. She was buying one of those deli tubs of raw liver that looks like bait, and a bottle of Gold Bond Powder. Thats it. The combination made my thoughts spin. I’m gonna presume that they are not going to be used together but HEY, I’ve seen weirder shit on the internet then that!
Anybody else seen odd checkout combinations recently?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/2 "2004-09-05T03:36:10Z")
I bump and watch for reply…
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/3 "2004-09-05T04:15:48Z")
Yesterday I stopped by the store to by bandaids and popcorn. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/4 "2004-09-05T04:57:03Z")
When I was in High school, my friends and I used to have this running game where we would go to the supermarket to buy 3 items that would, as a group, raise eyebrows. Like a pack of condoms, a watermelon and a tub of petroleum jelly. That sort of thing.
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/5 "2004-09-05T10:13:40Z")
Once I saw a guy buying a disposable enema and a bottle of champagne. I figured he was getting the champagne to celebrate the end of his constipation.
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### Author:  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/6 "2004-09-05T10:52:10Z")
I was in the 24-hour supermarket with my ex one night. It was about 3am. In front of us was an older man, in his 70’s or possibly 80’s, buying two boxes of latex gloves. He looked slightly off his rocker, too.
Who could possibly need latex gloves at 3 in the morning? 😕
Yecch!
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### Author:  [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/7 "2004-09-05T12:22:40Z")
Two cucumbers and a quart of charcoal lighter fluid. Did I mention said items were purchased in the throes of a blinding snowstorm?
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/8 "2004-09-05T14:42:09Z")
Probably unrelated, but I will toss it in here anyway.
I knew this one real character who happened to be a regular barfly at the local bar. It was common for someone to come into this neighborhood bar and shoot-the-rail (buy everyone a drink). Well, one day said barfly came in and shot-the-rail, but instead of a drink, he bought everyone a hair comb. 😕
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### Author:  [@eveanyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eveanyn)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/9 "2004-09-05T15:57:40Z")
It wasn’t a grocery store, but this morning I bought a tackle box, a set of binoculars and three pair of panties. It didn’t seem strange until I read this thread.
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/10 "2004-09-05T16:09:40Z")
I have a shopping list of a cordless phone battery, socks, and aloe vera gel, if that counts.
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### Author:  [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/11 "2004-09-06T03:50:22Z")
Oh… it counts… just what sort of Rube Goldberg contraption are you trying to build there???
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### Author:  [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/12 "2004-09-06T05:08:10Z")
When I worked at a convenience store a guy came in and bought a couple of “adult” magazines and some comic books. I guess you could call that balanced reading but I just call it funny.
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2004, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/13 "2004-09-06T10:08:20Z")
I wasn’t building anything. I just had a dead phone, cold feet, and dry skin all at once.
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### Author:  [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/14 "2004-09-07T22:25:08Z")
A 6-packs each of: Coke, Dr Pepper, Sprite and rootbeer
and a large white onion.
“Four 6-packs and an Onion” immediately sounded like a band name.
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### Author:  [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/15 "2004-09-07T22:30:46Z")
The Sims Deluxe, a 5 pound tin of cashews, and a large roll of bubble wrap.
That was an amusing afternoon.
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### Author:  [@Ezekiel25\_17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ezekiel25_17)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/16 "2004-09-07T22:31:21Z")
“Four 6-packs and an Onion” immediately sounded like a band name.
Dave Barry would be proud!
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supermarket-checkout-combinations-re-revisited/263176/17 "2004-09-08T00:29:51Z")
About a week ago I bought a flush lever, hamburger buns, a belt, a pack of cheep carabiners, and antacid.