Honest Employee at WalMart Makes My Day!

I'm amazed that for once that someone is actually being nice enough to
put forth a display of Gratitude. Now days so many people are more
then willing to give an attitude but never the actual gratitude that
is deserved.

Wow, a positive letter for once; and one that helped to renew my faith
in humanity just a little. ^^

Honestly, no-one should feel ashamed at needing a little help; if
there was a system in place to help the Single Income No Kids like me,
I'd take it as with the credit crunch and all, I'm struggling a bit at
the moment. However, there is no way that I'd ever steal someone's
vouchers; that to me is like taking food out of the mouths of
someone's children.

Yay! Glad to see there are still good, honest, helpful people in the
world-even at Wal-Mart! ;)

I am all for this letter making it to number one!!

Lately, I've been a bit pessimistic about were humanity is headed,
especially where consumer/employee interaction is concerned. But here
is the perfect example of an employee who cared, a customer who was
apreciative, and hopefully that will continue circling 'round and
'round.

Thanks so much for sharing this letter!!

They also strongly advocate breastfeeding by letting the mom stay on
the program (getting tuna, carrots, milk and beans) for Baby's first
year as long as she's nursing. Alternately, they'll give you formula.
I've actually heard of people's cars being broken into to get the
vouchers for formula. Sad, but true.
If you go dollar for dollar, I found that the mom got more benefits
for breastfeeding. The dollar amount of the food that I received FAR
outweighed the dollar amount of formula I would have received.

Sad, that folks need to break into cars to get these vouchers. I
really hope your county gets online soon.

Here in Ohio, they also allow certain cereals for the little ones who
eat solids. If I recall right, it covers kids up until age 5, to make
sure they have healthy food in some of their most formative years.

Most people are honest. I've left my coupon holder in my shopping
cart at the supermarket at least a dozen times. There's no money in
it, but there are coupons and rainchecks. Every single time I go back
to retrieve it, it's waiting for me at the courtesy desk. Someone
always turns it in.

I'm so glad you got the voucher back, and thanks for sharing your
story!

This really needs to get to #1. We need more letters at the top that
are for nice things.

I got a rubber stamped reply today thanking me for my positive
feedback.
I'm going to take Bill R.'s suggestion below and send this via mail to
the store manager (whose name is conveniently printed on the top of my
receipt). the way this reply left me feeling was kind of like
"thanks...NEXT!"

Great letter, I am sure it made him feel good to have helped you:)

This is so nice of you to take the time to write this letter. And I
know "Eli" or whoever it was was just as happy to see this returned to
you.

How kind of you to take the time to thank this person for their
honesty.

One suggestion: In Ohio, WIC benefits can be put on a sort of "debit"
card, which allows the WIC consumer to use it at all participating
stores.

if your state offers this, you might want to partake. A card is swiped
thru the WIC machine and a PIN is needed. So, if someone HAD stolen
you card, they could not use it to obtain your child's benefits.

I'm sure that someone will be very happy to get this letter. On
behalf of retail workers everywhere - thanks for writing it!

W.H.,

Nice job relating your story.

I am not sure if WalMart accepts communications from third parties so
I suggest you send a copy to the store to the attenton of the Store
Manager.

Thanks for sharing.

BillR.