STORE RETURNS RETURNED ITEMS IN ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS GESTURE.Byline: Patricia Farrell Farrell, city (1990 pop. 6,841), Mercer co., W central Pa., on the Shenango River at the Ohio line and adjoining Sharon, Pa.; inc. 1901. It is a railroad center, and its steel- and ironworks industries have declined. Aidem Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - With a heavy heart, Julie JULIE Joint Utility Locating Information for Excavators JULIE Jena University Language and Information Engineering (Germany) Meisl loaded the presents she had bought for her grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. into a shopping cart and pushed it back into the Big Lots store. Laid off unexpectedly four days earlier, she knew she couldn't could·n't Contraction of could not. couldn't could not afford the little remote-controlled truck, the toy tool set, the sweat suits or even the pajamas pajamas Noun, pl US pyjamas pajamas npl (US) → pijama msg; piyama msg (LAM for her adult daughter. She apologized to clerk Maria Mance because she had removed the price tags, expecting to wrap the gifts for Christmas. No problem, Mance said, she'd take care of it and refund TO REFUND. To pay back by the party who has received it, to the party who has paid it, money which ought not to have been paid. 2. On a deficiency of assets, executors and administrators cum testamento annexo, are entitled to have refunded to them legacies the $100 or so on Meisl's credit card. But that wasn't the end of it. Nance told other workers in the store at a staff meeting about Meisl's plight and they were so touched they wanted to do something and so did their bosses. On Wednesday, two days after she'd returned the items, Big Lots delivered the presents back to Meisl's home. ``We didn't want to think of any kids out there without toys for Christmas,'' store manager Chuck Sears said Friday. Meisl was stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. when Big Lots workers called her at home, having learned her address and phone number from the sales return form. Ten minutes later, they were at her front door. ``I am just so beside myself that they did this for me,'' Meisl said. ``I was touched even that they took the gifts back without prices - and that they would bring them back to me. I just can't believe they went to that length.'' Back came the remote-controlled dump truck, the Blues Clues jacket, the tool set and more. ``They couldn't find the exact pajamas I had bought for my daughter, but they brought me an even nicer pair,'' she said. Meisl had worked as a negotiator with creditors for a debt-settlement company for 18 years when she was laid off because of declining business. She'd never lost a job before and was saddened by the reality that she couldn't afford gifts for her children and her five grandchildren. She told Mance of her situation as she was returning the items. A day later, in a Big Lots staff meeting to review the previous day's sales, Mance told of Meisl's story. ``When they explained why, it was a consensus among the staff,'' Sears said. ``We said, let's go Let's Go may refer to: Television
Bookkeeper Debi Rodriguez pulled some strings and the store picked up the tab. On Friday, she and Meisl met and hugged. When things turn around for Meisl, she'll be back to shop, and she has a favorite clerk. ``Maria, she's the one who did the whole thing,'' Meisl said. ``She was so sweet and understanding, very compassionate com·pas·sion·ate adj. 1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane. 2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: . She'd only been working there two weeks, but she pulled it all together. She did the return quickly, and the next thing she's got the whole Big Lots to do this whole thing.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Newly laid-off Julie Meisl, right, gets a hug from Big Lots employee Debi Rodriguez after the store let her keep gifts she had returned. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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