26 Times Retail Workers Were True Heroes And Bent Their Rules To Give Customers Discounts

When you on shift again?

People over 55 get free drinks from Whataburger, no purchase necessary, and I'd love to just give them free drinks when they didn't know the rule. Couple came in, didn't know what Whataburger was, just wanted a drink each, so I just hand the cups over. The wife went to slowly go sit down, and the husband pulls out his wallet and asks how much. I tell him nothing, and he looked about in tears with gratification. Another time, a lady, her daughter, and her granddaughter come in. The daughter wanted a small drink, the lady wanted a medium. I gave them the small for free. Daughter was confused and said I forgot it. I told her seniors get drinks for free. She tried correcting me and saying the small was for her. I said, "I know, your mom wants the small." She stood there for a split second then went, "OH! Yes! Exactly!" Favorite part of that job was finding out how to save people money wherever I could.

Lmao!

COOL

I'm in my 30s and already almost half way grey. I'll be getting this soon enough

Not all heroes wear capes

Hahaha! That's awesome!

My grandma refused her senior discount until she in her late 70's. Absolutely refused to accept it.

Awww I feel that lol I can't walk straight

Well named shop.

I once took a corner too fast with a full Big Gulp and spilled it all over the floor of my car. After a quick clean up, I went back to Circle K to get another drink. The clerk gave it to me free. I wasn't really surprised because around that time I had been told that their manager had authorized the clerks to give free drinks to people they recognized as regular customers - kind of an informal rewards program for their store.

I had gone to a McDonald's and ordered a boat load of food. Headed for my car, bag of 🍟 falls. I went back inside asked for a broom and dust pan. The manager asked what happened. I told him and said I needed to order more fries 🍟 didn't act like an a*s so he didn't charge for the reload.

I went into a convenience store when it was very hot and my car AC quit, and asked for the biggest slurpee they had (back in the old days, some places weren't self serve). When I asked how much, they (plural) said it was free. I must have looked really hot.

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Thanks Bob

In The Netherlands you have the "Kringloop winkels", kind of like the thrift stores. They get everything for free and used to have prices very low budget so people with a low income could afford to buy some reasonable good things. Than things changed and they became so expensive it was borderline ridiculous... Last time I bought something there was an Ikea single bed, the simplest version there was because I wanted to remodel it into a big dogbed. They asked as much as at Ikea. So I asked if they fell on their head a bit to often last week because no way I was going to pay the "new" price for a used one. They asked me what I thought was a good price and when I made my counteroffer, they agreed. What they do, is not pricetag anything like beds and just ask a certain amount and see if someone's crazy enough to pay it

My dad was in the army. His name was also Bob.

Way to abuse an honorable program. You're not worthy, PoS

Way to abuse the system. Those people are deserving, you're not.

Haha. You're so nice... I mean, how could you?

I do the same thing for my dogs at Goodwill but don't worry, I choose the ugly stuffed animals that no one will want. Dog toys are super expensive. I can spend $20 for two toys that they destroy in a couple hours or $10 on an armful that keep them happy for weeks.

A few animal rescues I know will also buy lots of stuffed toys from thrift stores. It saves on money and prevents waste!

My nephew and sister did this a few times. It was heaven sitting there watching the dogs go nuts.

Way to abuse an honorable program, PoS.

Hmmm... my curiosity, is getting the best of me on this one.

I wanna see what that would look like

Now we need photos of the Beanie Baby Monster

I want one. I lost all my BBs in a flood but l love the idea of combining all the babies into a big, soft Monster

Hopefully they weren't the "valuable" ones!

I went into JB Hifi and asked about PCs and they said for gaming I should get one built and it will do anything I need it to for school still. I'm 36 and haven't been in school for 20 years this year.

Reminds me of the time I went to the movies with a couple coworkers -- one was still in college. She asked for her college discount at the ticket window and the guy made her prove it with her student ID. Then he just gave the same discount to me and the other coworker, no questions asked, even though we weren't in college and didn't even ask about the discount!!!

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Sooo, almost all of these posts are people stealing, criminal behavior, from their employers. The customers are complicit in these blatant thefts of company resources. These examples should NOT be celebrated, rather condemned.

Keeping teens active and "off the streets" should be a goal of all businesses. And, once these high schoolers become adults, hopefully, they will become paying customers.

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*looks down at fur*