LOL at the message the cashier got.
Your explanation makes more sense, though my first guess would have been that there was a crime involved lol.
Lately I've been getting my LEDs at the Restore for $2 a pop NOS. They're MaxLED lamps. I had bought 10 11W 800L warm white 60W replacements. Four in the light over the dining room table and four over the kitchen island. I like them because they're not as warm as the newer LEDs (they're more like a halogen color). Plus the electronics portion is metal instead of plastic. The other two are spares in case any of them die early. So far so good.
Recently, I found some MaxLED 75W= LEDs rated for 1100 lumens (also 11W like the 60W= ones so these must be newer, as the current 60W ones are typically around 8W) at the Restore so I bought four for the outside lights. I currently have two of them installed to see how well they did. The outside lights are base-down so I figured the LEDs wouldn't do good since they'd basically be sending all the light into the cover of the light, which is black. They seem to be nearly as effective as the 53W halogens though! I like the crisp color of the halogens better but whatev. The lights by the front door are still halogen, as those fixtures have integral PCs so when we leave the house, they're only on at night. the garage lights are on 24/7 while we're gone, so the 11W vs 53W is advantageous.
I has bought four of them, so when the halogens around the front door go I'll replace them with the LEDs too. I haven't been able to find 75 or 100W= LEDs this cheap yet so I've held out on getting some. The 40 and 60W ones are pretty cheap and come in multi-packs (but we don't use any 40W lights in out house; too dim) so most of our 60W fixtures are LED. We only have one 100W fixture and it's the keyless socket in the garage. It's still incandescent and will remain incandescent. It's over the loft in the back of the garage so I'd fear a CFL would get broken and 100W LEDs are too expensive. Plus we don't really use the garage light enough to justify it. (and on top of that, you can't beat the preheat shoplight, rapid start turret, and incandescent combination!)