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Call them out on it. "Do you have a reason why you needed to close this line and not serve him?" Then be ready to walk out, or take a pic of the cashier and send an email to corporate for the store.
Buying the guy's stuff could be classy, or it could be demeaning depending on if he can see you as an ally.
I'd be damn willing to walk out and let them put all the stuff back while I go somewhere else.
And what do you do with your outrage when it had nothing to do with who was in line and everything to do with the employee having an exactly 12-minute long scheduled break and the time is already running?
Have a 12-minute long argument with them, making sure they don't get to their break?
I don't care about racists, and never will.
And how would you know this was racist?
Registers get closed dozens of times a day in a supermarket, no matter who is in line.
Unless you're implying that black people should be treated differently than other customers? That registers should never be closed if there's a black person in line? That would pretty much constitute racism — as positive discrimination is still discrimination.
Have you ever worked in a grocery store?