Target employees share the most ridiculous returns they've seen customers make

An Target employee of one year told Business Insider that the chips were supposed to be served at a party, but went unopened.

"I did not know at the time that food returns get tossed," the employee told Business Insider.

A Target team member of one year told Business Insider that they had witnessed a customer make this return.

A Target team member told Business Insider that the large pile of DVDs were returned "with receipts, obviously."

A Target employee of one year told Business Insider about encountering shoppers who attempted to return products from other stores.

Another Target team member who's also worked at the store for a year said one person tried to return "multiple clothing items from Walmart," and a third employee who's worked at the chain for about the same amount of time described a customer who attempted to return a "Walmart shirt."

A team member of eight months told Business Insider of a shopper who successfully returned, "A shirt that had been worn, washed, and reeked of cigarettes. We didn't even carry the brand that it was. Guest Services accepted it, but we just had to throw it away."

"Someone came in to return three sets of the same size sheet that he said his wife bought too many of," an employee of five years told Business Insider. "They were $150 apiece. He didn't have the receipt. We exchanged it for a $450 camera. He bought those sheets from a second hand store."

A Target team member of nine months said that a shopper once return an Xbox lacking a console.

A Target employee of five years told Business Insider that somebody abused the store's 90 day return policy "... by returning roughly $400 in Christmas decorations in late February."

An employee of two years told Business Insider that a shopper once returned a "10-year-old CD."

• An opened box of condoms

• Bloody swimsuit bottoms

• Action figures that had been put back in the wrong cases

• A suit with an ornament in its pocket

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