The United States Texas snowstorm disaster, more than 10 million residents face water and electricity tragedy, Leander (Leander) a supermarket also last week during the business power outages, cash registers can not operate. In the face of a large number of customers who intend to buy the necessities of Life, the supermarket decided to let customers take away the goods for free to leave, the act of charity was praised by customers, describing it as a demonstration of the beauty of humanity in times of crisis, some customers said they would donate the original money for goods, to spread the goodwill.
Texas many residents in the disaster four out to buy essential goods, 60-year-old Hennessy (Tim Hennessy) last Tuesday afternoon with his wife to “H-E-B” supermarket to buy supplies, during the supermarket suddenly lost power, the lights went out. Mr. and Mrs. Hennessy have seen and this immediately quickly shopping, so as not to close the supermarket, and hurriedly took some milk, energy bars and Food from the shelves, the staff about 10 to 15 minutes later they began to “clear the field”, to all customers to the cashier ready to leave.
By this Time, there was a long line at the cashier, Hennessy recalled that there were at least 10 full shopping carts in front of them, and a large number of customers behind them, and it is estimated that there were about hundreds of people in the supermarket. The Hennessy couple’s line moved very slowly at first, but about 20 minutes later suddenly speed up, they both thought the supermarket to send additional staff cashier, but unexpectedly the two arrived at the cashier a few minutes later, the cashier only asked them whether there is alcohol in the goods, Hennessy answered “no”, the cashier said to them: ” We can’t bag your goods one by one, please go ahead.”
The Hennessy’s were still unsure and asked the cashier, “Who should we pay? We should be paying about $200.” The cashier simply waved his hand and replied, “Go ahead and drive Home carefully,” indicating that the Hennessy’s did not have to pay. Hennessy also noted at this point that the situation was the same at all the cash registers, with most of the clerks just standing at the exit to see customers off, and he recalled the scene with a sense of surprise: “It made us …… clamor, they let us walk out the door like that.”
“They could have asked us to leave empty-handed.”
Hennessy’s wife was immediately moved to tears, Hennessy also burst into tears, he confessed that he could not believe that the supermarket was so generous, “they (supermarket) could have asked us all to leave empty-handed immediately after the power outage, but they also continued to let everyone shop for another 10 to 15 minutes, and a dollar did not have to pay”.
Hennessy also revealed that customers were helping each other that day, such as an elderly woman whose car was stuck in the snow, so he helped push the car with others, and some customers helped others get their goods into the car. He said, “This is the America I know, no matter how negative things we see in the news, Americans are so kind, generous and caring” and paid tribute to H-E-B Supermarket, “We will never forget what you did.
The good deed was shared by Hennessy through Facebook and gained a lot of attention. As many as 29,000 people shared his post again, and the Houston Chronicle opinion piece even used the incident as a lead-in to criticize the Texas state government for its lack of disaster relief.
Customers moved to donate money for goods
One of the customers, Shelby Lasker, said she was worried about not being able to buy supplies after the power outage, but luckily she was still able to take away meat, macaroni, milk, cheese and other essentials, describing H-E-B as better than many stores. “.
Hennessy said in an interview, “This country has been through a lot in the last year and a half, right? I think since last March, right, a lot of division, a lot of things happening, and in Texas we have to deal with this weather …… but you’ll see people are fine in tough times.” Hennessy decided afterwards to donate the money that would have been payable that day to benefit more people from this good deed, and even took the initiative to ask the supermarket if there was a charity group that wanted to donate.
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