I think it’s a great gesture, but I wonder how K-Mart knows whether the customers getting their layaways paid off are indeed “needy”?
Or is it pretty much a given that anyone who has to use layaway at Christmas is?
“Or is it pretty much a given that anyone who has to use layaway at Christmas is?”
For the most part, I’d say yes.
Although I’m not sure the word ‘needy’ is correct.
Let’s just say ‘monetarily challenged’.
:)
you cannot worry about whether the person who put the merchandise on layaway is worthy of your gift. What ever you do is on you and your worry only deprives you of the warmth and satisfaction of helping someone. You do this act of kindness for your own well being and the fact that it is a good and right thing to do. Why destroy that by questioning and worrying about whether some unworthy person reaps a windfall. It is on them, not you. Don’t destroy that wonderful feeling and ruin your own happiness. Remember this: “It is always better to give than receive.”
YES...that’s what I am wondering....I don’t like rewarding people because they are “poor”.....some people are poor by their bad decisions.
I’d like to know how they decide which accounts get paid off? I can see some lawsuits against K-Mart, Walmart etc. “You chose that man over me ‘cause he’s white and I’m (fill in the blank).