How common are "only collector" people at your LGS?
I've been playing magic since ~2015 with varying intensity, but spent my fair share of time at LGS at FNM, sometimes during the daytime, at weekends etc. Last saturday I was going through the bulk boxes at an LGS looking for pauper playable cards when some guy that neither I (nor the store owner) knew came in and proceeded to buy two displays of marvel collector boosters, sat down in front of me and began opening them.
I eventually began talking to him and he said he recently stopped buying Pokemon cards because he was dissatisfied with their recent business practices (I didn't ask further). Apparantly he doesn't really know how to play magic, he said he tried playing the tutorial on arena but didn't enjoy the game and stopped before it ended. Every other card he presented his pulls to me and commented on how great they looked, mostly for the alt arts. Those that he would show to me he would put into sleeves and stack on an extra pile. He went on to complain how the rares should have better artwork because they are rares and the bad art should go on the commons and "unrares" (uncommons?). I don't think he checked the prices of anything he opened and only sold one card to the store because it was a duplicate and the owner offered him 40€ for it.
After he was done he purchased the one scene box the store had in stock, opened it with the same process and proceeded to look for other boxes to open. He was disappointed because after that one the store only had regular booster boxes left and the cards in those are undesirable to him.
Pondering what to do, his cards still all over the table, he asked the owner if there are other games that have "rare boxes" he could buy, but the store was mostly out of product because of product allotment difficulties in lorcana and riftbound.
He then basically scooped up all of his unsleeved cards from the table into his backpack raw and left the store.
This whole experience is still a bit unreal to me, I've never experienced anything like it in over ten years of playing magic and visiting nerd stores. I shouldn't complain because I got a playset of hawkeyes bow for free out of it but still...
How often is stuff like this happening in stores you frequent? Am I going crazy for thinking this is weird?
Edit: typo