This month ActiveRain is hosting a challenge - ActiveRain Point Store - Points, Points, Points. Our challenge, should we choose to accept it, is to spend our points (1,000,000 points = $100,000) on any goals we want. We can spend them on the community, hobbies, retirement, personal, familial, altruistic goals or anything else that comes to mind. So here is my second option to how I might spend mine!
At the time I am writing this, I have about 2,675,000 points. As I mentioned with my first entry, I'm going to keep 500,000 so my ActiveRain account remains free. So that leaves me with 2,175,000. With my first option, I explored spending the entire $217,500 on a camper van. This time I'm considering a totally different option, and that is as follows.
I have on occasion left some money with a cashier at my grocery store, and asked them to put it towards the next person that came through their line. When the shopper asks what this is, the cashier is instructed to tell them it's from someone who wants them to have a great day. That's it!
So my second option of what to do with my money is as follows:
We have four major grocery stores in my town. Every shopper has their favorite store, either Albertsons, Smiths, Rosauers or Super1. One has better produce, and more cheese, and one has a better fish department. One might be closer to someone's house or have more discounts. Whatever the reason, we all have a favorite.
So once I have my $217,500 in hand, I would go meet with the managers of all four stores. I'd let them know I was going to provide each store with $10,875 per week for five weeks ($10,875 * 4 stores * 5 weeks = $217,500).
The stores would not be able to tell their customers about this giveaway in advance, so they have to keep it a secret or they would not be able to participate in future weeks. One week, the store would get the money on a Monday, one week a Tuesday and so on so no one would know when (or if) this might happen again.
The $10,875 would be split as follows - $10,275 for customers and $500 for cashier(s). This is how it would work.
The managers would let the cashiers know that all customers that day would get their entire bill paid when they got through the register. Alternatively, if they prefer, the store could pay $x towards each customer bill, to make it fairer. Perhaps $100 per shopper.
When the store's total giveaway for the day reached $10,000, they'd stop.
As for the $500 for cashiers, it would have to be given to the cashiers either via a raffle for anyone working that day, or perhaps to the person who helps the most customers, or to the one who gets the best customer reviews for the day, or in any other way they wanted, as long as it was fair and equitable. Also, the same cashier(s) wouldn't be eligible the following week.
You can tell I've given this some thought. I'd want to make sure customers aren't aware so they couldn't game the system. And I'd want something for the cashiers as well since they'll be helping make sure this goes off well.
And there you go! Option Two for how I'd spend my ActiveRain points if that was truly a thing!
Now I have to think of a third option!
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