I am one of the lucky few who managed to score a job at Woolworths after losing a large amount of work to the COVID-19 crisis. Having previously worked for the company, I was plucked from a stack of online resumes and placed at the checkout.

On one of my first shifts, I scanned a young woman’s smoked trout mousse dip and commented that I didn’t know you could get such a product. She told me that it was for her housemate and she searched endlessly to find it. She just really needed to walk through the doors of her home with something special to make him smile.

While I scan items and help at the service desk, I’m seeing bouts of thoughtfulness throughout the day from members of the public towards those they are close to, to their communities, and most heart-warming of all, to strangers.

While scanning another woman’s shopping, I noticed an assortment of ‘Happy Easter’ cards. “Those are cute,” I said to her. She then told me they were for her neighbours in her apartment building. “I’m spending more money than I probably should be but thought it’d be a nice thing to do – to just put them under everyone’s doors”.

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