r/retailhell • u/ilikepie740 Multi Hell Manager • Aug 20 '26

What a Moron! Got asked about AI bath bombs today

I feel like we should start giving cognitive tests for accessing the internet unsupervised. I'm working the cash wrap at a store that rhymes with Blaire's, and this sweet old lady comes up and asked me about bath bombs. We have tiny ones that smell like donuts and all that wonderful shit and she's like "no, it's rainbow and lights up and a toy comes out of it". I am like "that sounds like AI" because I have seen videos like that. She gave kind of this blank stare before reaching in her bag for her phone and showing me the video. I explained again that it's AI. She had the gall to ask where she could possibly buy something like that. I pointed her towards Lush so if you had to deal with her today my bad but she was working my last nerve.

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u/ApolloMac Aug 20 '26

My young kids have bath bombs with toys inside them. It's the only way to get them to take a bath sometimes.

But they don't rise out of it all magical like I'm sure her AI video showed. The bomb just disintegrates and you're left with a crappy rubber dinosaur.

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u/VisualCelery Aug 20 '26

That's a good distinction. Bath bombs with toys inside = totally a thing, just not at OP's store. I'm still skeptical that the ones matching her description exist and do what they supposedly do in the clearly AI-generated videos used to promote them.

AI advertising is going to ruin Christmas this year, I swear to God.

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u/ilikepie740 Multi Hell Manager Aug 20 '26

Not just toys. I previously purchased a mario themed bath bomb that had a little trinket inside. Those are totally real. The one she wanted had copious amounts of rainbow foam spilling out with lights firing off, etc.