Some grocery store employees took customer service to a
new level.
Jenna Rachal
and her 3-year-old daughter, Madison, went shopping recently at the
Publix grocery store in Daphne, Alabama. When they had completed their
shopping, they left the store abruptly due to a heavy rainstorm. When
they returned home, little Madison realized that she had lost her
stuffed bunny. Knowing that she had it while they were at Publix, they
went back to the store the next day to see if they could find it. They
could not find it nor had it been turned in to the customer service
desk. They left and little Madison was heartbroken.
Rachal posted
a plea on Facebook asking for anyone who may have seen the toy to return
it to Madison. The post was shared more than 1,500 times. One of the
people who viewed it was Mike Gayheart, the manager of the Publix store
where the bunny had been lost.
Gayheart and
some other Publix employees began to investigate. They watched
surveillance video. They saw the bunny perched in a shopping cart where
Madison had left it. They watched on video as the bunny was taken to a
trash can and dumped. The trash can was emptied into a trash compactor,
the compactor was emptied into the dumpster, and the dumpster was later
emptied into a garbage truck. So the Publix employees knew that the
bunny had been taken to the landfill.
Gayheart
couldn’t stand it. He assembled a crew and headed to the landfill.
Here’s the rest of the story in Madison’s mom own words: “So, Mike, the
amazing manager at Publix in Daphne [plus] 3 additional employees went
to the landfill to dig for bunny and FOUND HIM! Mike took bunny home
and washed him 3 times to get him nice and clean. Bunny still [had] a
stench but we are so happy he is home. Maddie has not let him go and
she says he doesn’t stink!”
Gayheart and
his crew went the extra mile to help mend a little girl’s broken heart,
and the little girl and her mother couldn’t be more grateful. *
When you and
I were on the trash heap because of our sin, the Son of God came to seek
for us and to save us (Luke 19:10). Jesus had to give His life to save
us from our sins (Romans 5:8). Although we are stained and smelly, we
can be washed clean by the blood that He shed for us (Revelation 1:5).
God will wash away our sins, add us to His family,
and give us eternal life when we place our
faith and
trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from our sins in
repentance
(Acts 17:30-31), confess
Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are
baptized
(immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of our sins (Acts 2:38). As
we continue to follow Him, the blood of Jesus will continue to cleanse
us from sin (1 John 1:7-9).
Rejoice, “for
the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost” (Luke 19:10).
“And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your
sins, calling on the name of the Lord” (Acts 22:16).
-- David A.
Sargent
*
Information gleaned from “Publix employees dig through landfill to find
adorable girl’s lost bunny” by Chris Best of WKRG,
www.wkrg.com.
David A. Sargent,
Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama 36695
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