Cultural Differences or just awkward ?

[mumski]

We own a sweet shop where everything is in glass jars and we weight out the sweets for customers and usually customers ask for example for a 100 grams of pear drops or a mix of 50 grams of this and 50 grams of that.
That's fine . We love our customers and pride our selves on our customer service. However we get customers often from an Asian background who will ask for one sweet from a dozen jars. This isn't a problem when it's quiet but when it's busy such as a Saturday it causes mayhem as you can imagine. . I want to understand, is this a cultural thing and what is the reason?. We also had someone in from Mexico who started taking the lids off jars and eating the sweets until we gently explained she need to pay first. What do people think?

Coconut mushrooms

BEST EVER

I'm salivating now at the thought of going to an old-fashioned sweet shop. I guarantee nowhere will sell my favourites - chewing nuts, kola kubes and sweet tobacco - anymore!

Not sure about the others but kola kubes are definitely still around at old fashioned sweet shops!
My fave, and had some a few months back!

FFS. It's a perfectly valid question to ask if there's any differences in how sweets are sold in other countries and cultures

You need to at least know what countries you mean though. OP said "Asian"...does she mean Japan, India, Afghanistan, Israel....all in Asia, none of them likely to have any overlapping cultural attitudes to british style sweets....

@Lucysky2017 I think that is uncalled for and nothing to do with the issue here. Huge generalisation you're making.

In case anyone's ever in Brighton - there's a shop like this there - and now I need to go!

It's usually Asian's born here and asian tourists. It doesn't seem to be any other culture, which was what intrigued me. We do bags of mixed sweets too. I had a asian lady in on Saturday with an English husband and when she started saying "I'll have one from that jar and one from that...." he rolled his eyes and pointed out the queue of people behind her and said "do you "really" have to do that, "?
Babychamsocalist we sell ALL the ones you mentioned!!!

It's usually Asian's born here and asian tourists. It doesn't seem to be any other culture, which was what intrigued me

But what type of "asians" do you actually mean?

Mumski, please define 'Asian'.

Your world sounds quite narrow. Are you determined to pigeonhole a particular Asian (undefined, brown skin?) racial type. How wonderful that the lady had a sensible 'English' husband (do you know for sure he is English? White skin?) who does not hold up queues.