I witnessed a christmas act of kindness

cbrown372

xoxo wrote: »

Surely the store must have been aware of this. I doubt a cashier can use their own discount card when they're logged in to that till? Perhaps they have a stack of discount cards to use at their discretion over the festive period.

I think it's a lovely thing to do. :T

I was given a 20% family and friends discount card in a large DIY shed once when I was helped by a staff member to look for a new front door due to a break-in.

I was very touched by the gesture and handed in a box of chocolates for the staff member.

thunderbird

I don't think I would ever call anything that the supermarket chains do as 'kind'

more like - they hope people will go home and tell their friends (or internet forums) that random discounts are being handed out, so that More will go and shop there

QuackQuackOops

zaxdog wrote: »

Wow that is really harsh. I for one am behind the kind actions of the cashier :j

An example from a small store.

Kind cashiers between them give 100 people a day £5 discount each.
Thats £500 per day.....£3,500 a week.

Who is paying for all that generosity?

A clue: it isn't the cashier.

Takeaway_Addict

Unless authorised by someone higher than them with the right to authorise this then frankly the cashier is asking for trouble and as pointed out its quite rightly a gross misconduct offence.

The cashier wasn't giving the money out of her own pocket but that of their employers.

I am all for RAOK but at my own expense, not someone elses

mountainofdebt

Did anyone read about the Happy Monday envelopes that are/were floating around London?

Basically blue envelopes have been dotted around London in really odd places and they contain £10 notes with a sticky wishing the finder a Happy Monday.

Would certainly make my day if I found one!

phill99

Treevo wrote: »

If it's not the store's official policy then it's theft and I'd rather not shop at a supermarket that employs thieves and fraudsters.

But I bet you're happy to use Google, shop at Amazon and buy Starbucks coffee.

sparrer

Person_one wrote: »

That couple might have been loaded, while a less 'cute' looking customer might have been spending their last pennies.

I'm not sure I like the idea of supermarket staff deciding who deserves a bit of kindness.

Treevo wrote: »

Could you please tell us which Supermarket this was so I can avoid them. As PersonOne has said, I don't like the idea that discounts should be given based on how cute somebody looks.

I find the remarks about older people looking 'cute' and possibly loaded to be immature and clueless. Saying a less 'cute' looking person might be spending their last suggests that less 'cute' people are more likely to be poor. Fwiw I'm a pensioner, could never be called 'cute', and am not down on my uppers yet, which puts paid to your theory.

What grounds you may have had for a reasonable argument went out of the window with the above sweeping statements. Mere assumption will never win points.

OrkneyStar

What a debate lol!
I didn't say it wasn't a nice thing to be happening (if a bit random, but then till spits such as £5 off a £40 spend, or 1p off fuel per litre etc seem a bit random too....as someone said maybe the computer is set to flash it up every so often?), I just thought it must have come from higher up than the cashier. I concluded this as it seems the cashiers have little say in what they can and cannot do. Even if head office said 'you choose', whats to stop them texting their friends/family and saying what was happening in store that day, so they could choose them?
I like the £10 in envelopes idea, very random and a nice surprise.

Treevo

phill99 wrote: »

But I bet you're happy to use Google, shop at Amazon and buy Starbucks coffee.

Perfectly. I have no problem with legal tax avoidance just as I have no problem with ISAs.;)

January20

Well, congratulations to the cynics and doubters! You have ruined a perfectly good thread with your bad feelings! I hope you are happy and can now spend the rest of the year merrily wallowing in your self-pity because you weren't the one getting the 10% discount (which of course you would have refused because it was theft!).

I think some of the posters on this thread should go and live in a cave somewhere where the rest of us can't bother them with our lose morals and false ideas about generosity.

And yes, this sarcasm is necessary. It's my revenge as I started reading this thread thinking it was going to be a positive one, only to discover it has been spoiled by you lot!

Why can't some people just be happy for others? Or just happy?