“I really want to buy a supermarket checkout divider, but the cashier keeps putting it back”

The supermarket checkout dividers are not for sale, but a joke was posted on Twitter by sickipediabot on June 13, 2013:
   
“No matter how much I try and buy supermarket conveyor belt dividers, the cashier keeps on putting them back!”
   
         
Twitter
Nags‏
@theNagz
Went to the supermarket to buy one of their conveyor belt dividers. The logistics didn’t really work out so well.
12:57 AM - 11 Sep 2012
     
Twitter
Local Idiot
@BoozeWizard
I keep trying to buy the little divider thing at the check stand and the cashier keeps putting it back.  Stuck in a loop.
6:37 PM - 4 Jan 2013
 
Twitter
Rian Murray‏
@directmaint
No matter how much I try and buy supermarket conveyor belt dividers, the cashier keeps on putting them back!
6:25 PM - 13 Jun 2013
   
Twitter
sickipediabot‏
@sickipediabot
No matter how much I try and buy supermarket conveyor belt dividers, the cashier keeps on putting them back!
8:02 PM - 13 Jun 2013
 
Twitter
Franklin Kostas‏
@FranklinAKostas
what if you actually want to buy a supermarket conveyor belt divider, and the cashier just keeps putting them back? #bigymusings
8:21 PM - 13 Jun 2013
   
Twitter
Stuart Spendlow‏
@Mr_SJS
Keep trying to buy one of those supermarket till conveyor belt divider things. Silly checkout workers keep putting them back every time.
1:24 AM - 14 Jun 2013
 
Twitter
James‏
@Boskettjokes
No matter how many times I try to buy a supermarket conveyor belt divider, the cashier keeps on putting them back!
3:32 AM - 14 Jun 2013
   
Twitter
Egg‏
@NiallEveritt
Just tried to buy a few of those supermarket conveyor-belt divider things but the cashier kept putting them back.
6:59 AM - 19 Jun 2013
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Standardsarefucked July 24, 2015
I really want to buy one of those grocery checkout dividers.
But the lady behind the counter keeps putting it back.
   
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/donquixote235 August 11, 2015
I really want to buy one of those grocery checkout dividers
But the cashier keeps putting it back.
   
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Starkington February 20, 2017
I really wanted to buy one of those grocery checkout dividers
But the lady behind the counter keeps putting it back
       
1 April 2017, Daily Star (London, UK), pg. 23:
JOKE OF THE DAY
I really want to buy one of those supermarket check-out dividers but the lady on the till keeps putting it back. tony the window cleaner
   
Twitter
Dad Jokes‏
@GoodOldDadJokes
I really want to buy one of the supermarket checkout dividers, but the cashier keeps putting it back.
#dadjokes #wednesdaywisdom
10:15 AM - 5 Apr 2017
 
Google Books
Best. Dad Jokes. Ever.
By Chantelle Grace
Racine, WI: BroiadStreet Kids
2018
Pg. ?:
Dad: I was trying to buy one of those checkout dividers,
but the silly cashier kept putting it back.
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/rowdywomen March 1, 2019
I really want to buy one of those grocery dividers, but the lady at the checkout keeps putting it back