pierre's general store

Good afternoon, y'all! I just finished Qi's quest (successfully for the first time this save!) and I had about 60 extra fruit left over at the end, and a handful of extra seeds, so I sold them to Pierre in the hopes of buying them back the next day. I showed up the following afternoon - no Qi...

I was at the general store, clicked her drawer and it did this. She was in my house on the farm, and there's no way she would have seen me. I somehow got caught by her? Is this a bug?

Was playing a chunk of Stardew today, needed specific out of season seeds for completing recipes, went to Pierre's as I had the Stocklist, however he was gone - went to Ginger Island, so just the little box and note were there, when I looked through the seed options they reverted to only Spring...

I seriously feel like Pierre has a horrible work ethic. I'm not sure about other games but in my game, Pierre is vacationing at the island resort more than half the week, consistently. (Not enough to make me think it's a bug, but enough for me to wonder how he pays his bills). He's always there...