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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
A company kept its stores open late to serve its customers, and in the process introduced its products to many prospective customers.
I don't see the mind-blowing charity here. Just a business doing business in a time of opportunity.
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It's both - they were doing good AND potentially gaining new customers. Who ultimately cares about the motive, as long as it helped people?
I have a personal story that is much less dramatic: we had some severe power outages a couple years ago, and my husband and I, without heat for several days, went to Panera (power thanks to a generator) to hang out where it was warm and eat some warm food. The manager/employees all stayed late and let us (and many other people from our neighborhood) stay. I really appreciated that. But let's not chide anyone here, in addition to just being "good" socially, it also generated business. And I still tend to purchase from that Panera just because of how well they treated me that one night.