"Frantically, I called my husband and asked him to come down to the supermarket with his bank card and pay, as it didn't seem that I was going to be able to. While I was on the phone to him, a lady in the line paid for her groceries then told the checkout guy, I'll pay for hers, too. I tried to protest, but she wouldn't hear of it. All she said was: Just pay it back in the community somehow."
"I felt so honoured that someone would do that for me it was so kind. That woman could see I was flustered and embarrassed at the busy checkout and stepped in to save the day. We live in quite a small town but because it all happened so fast, I'm not exactly sure who it was who paid for the groceries, so I haven't been able to thank her. But I did honour that kind woman's request."
"At the time, I had a whole bunch of baby stuff for sale on Facebook Marketplace. But after that day at the supermarket, I took it down and posted in a local buy swap sell group so I could pass it all on for free to someone in need. A woman with a six-week-old foster baby took me up on the offer, so I'm glad I was able to pass on the favour."
A shopper at Aldi could not complete a $100 grocery payment because the banking app was down and money had not been transferred into the everyday transaction account. The shopper had a toddler and a baby and faced a growing queue; the cashier set aside the scanned groceries and served other customers. A woman in line paid for the groceries and told the cashier, "Just pay it back in the community somehow." The shopper could not identify the helper to thank her but felt honoured. The shopper later removed baby items from Facebook Marketplace and gave them free to a foster mother with a six-week-old baby.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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