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Whole Foods Shows You Can Get Something For Nothing
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10 months ago about Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Shows You Can Get Something For Nothing
It could not have happened at a worse time. A major snowstorm was howling outside. Whole Foods supermarket at Bishops Corner in West Hartford was jammed with shoppers anxious to get home for dinner.
Suddenly, the computer crashed. None of the cash registers could function. Ted Donoghue, the assistant manager running the store on the afternoon of Dec. 13, consulted associates and made a snap decision:
All customers passing through the registers would get their food for free until the computers were working again. ...
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Radical
submitted by skyking 9 months ago
How many stores do that? How many could???
Whew.
Some judgement call. Had to do something to ID patrons leaving with food for billing after computers worked.
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