Huge 'polite' bear walks into store and walks around with food, leaving cashier stunned

A "polite" brown bear wandered into a store in California and began snacking on chocolate bars, leaving a shocked cashier barricading a door with a broom. Cashier Christopher Kinson said "it's almost like he has manners"

Video loading

Video not available

Click to playTap to play

California: Brown bear repeatedly steals food from supermarket

A cashier was stunned when a big "mannered" bear walked in and happily offered himself chocolate bars.

Christopher Kinson, 54, noticed the doors of 7-Eleven in Olympic Valley, California, but didn't see anyone enter.

It wasn't until Christopher looked down and noticed the bear munching on snacks during the night shift in the early hours of Tuesday, September 12.

He said, "It's funny. It's like it's intentionally polite to take one candy bar at a time, it's almost like it has manners."

Wisconsin native Christopher added, "At first I was surprised. I see the door open, and I don't see a torso and I'm like, 'Oh my god. It's a bear".

The bear would have been much bigger than it looked (

Picture:

Christopher Kinson/SWNS)

The alarmed cashier said the brown bear was much bigger than it appeared in the remarkable footage of the incident posted online.

"The videos really don't do it justice," Christopher continued. "The bear was about 20-30% bigger in real life."

“I always kept my distance and had the back door close to me so I could escape if it charged at me. I was scared at first but they just want to eat. We don't know exactly how they think.