Dealing with a disconcerting display of convenience store logic

“Hi. I just bought this newspaper here a few minutes ago. When I got home, I saw that a couple of sections are missing. Can I check the others on the rack to see if any of them have the missing sections?”

“Okay.”

“I checked three or four of them. They’re all the same.”

"Okay."

"What?"

"That means there are no missing sections.”

‘No. It means the missing sections are missing from all of your newspapers.”

“Okay.”

“Can I get a refund?”

“Okay.”