Has any customer payed it forward in your store? Does this happen often? Just curious is all.
Pay it Forward
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Posted 3 years ago #
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In the sense of a random person paying for another persons? It happens every once in awhile. Someone will pay with a $20 for a $2 coffee so there's $18 left and they will just ask to put it on a Starbucks card and use it until it runs out. Stuff like that happens...it's kind of cool...but then when the person ordering the 'free' drink or whatever finds out some random person is paying for them, they order more than they planned in order to get free stuff...
Posted 3 years ago # -
I had this happen once. A regular who comes in every morning and sits in our lobby did it. He paid for his coffee, then said quietly, "hang on to my credit card, and use it to pay for this next woman... Then bring me my card afterwards".
Too bad the woman he was paying for was the same lady that had SCREAMED at me the day before because I was taking too long ringing up the person in front of her. So I was really annoyed, because the woman really did not deserve a free drink.
It's nice to see random acts of kindness at work though... especially since the other 99% of my customers are jerks.
Posted 3 years ago # -
It actually happened today and I got a 10$ tip as a result too bad I had to put it in the pool
Posted 3 years ago # -
This happened a few times at my old store...just at the drive thru....
Posted 3 years ago # -
I don't get it. It happened at my store a couple of times. If someone's feeling generous, why donate to the rich? Why not give the money to an animal shelter or the Red Cross? Why not buy the homeless guy outside some hot chocolate and a sandwich? I really don't understand what makes people do this.
Posted 3 years ago # -
I payed it forward the other day, the baristas face lit up when I did it. It is a good feeling. But as seashellez said, it works best at the drive through, that way you can get an exact count of who is in the car so that one greedy customer in the store does not buy $18 worth of goods that someone payed forward. :)
Posted 3 years ago #
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