Gomu O Tsukete To Iimashita ^hot^ Info

: The polite past tense of "to say" or "told you," indicating a past directive that was ignored. Cultural Context

The first time I heard this, I was in a stationery store in Tokyo. I was buying a stack of notebooks for my classes. I asked the cashier if they had any elastic bands to keep the notebooks closed. gomu o tsukete to iimashita

Outside of anime, when might a Japanese person actually say this? : The polite past tense of "to say"