"Check in the back", it was easier to fake check in the back than to tell these people all the stock we had was already on the shop floor.
I worked seasonal retail in high school, all department stores, they always seemed to stick me in the men's section. One night a woman was adamant we had more ties or whatever the fuck she needed for her husband "in the back". I told her the truth, the back of the JC Penny or Macy's or wherever I was working that night is like a bombed out warehouse with cobwebs, hundreds of coat hangers from the 1980's, unsafe machinery that hasn't been turned on since before I was born, and absolutely zero extra stock. So I showed her the back, fuck it, what were they going to do fire me when I was only working that night?
That lady walked around the back for about 20 seconds and then in a very serious tone told me that these were unsafe conditions for anyone to work in, let alone a teenager, lol. Told ya bitch.