Candy at the Bank

Attending a workshop in the lobby of our current bank.

After my transaction at the bank the other day, the teller offered me a treat. Usually they give out logo imprinted chocolate silver dollars. She had offered the person before me a choice of dark or light chocolate, something that’s never happened before. When I got to the counter I saw that she had a plate of Hershey’s Chocolate Kisses. I made my deposit, declined the candy, and left… reminiscing.

When I was a kid, I got my very first savings account in the bank that used to be in this building. Now it’s a McDonald’s restaurant. There were lush bushes and trees surrounding the place when it was a bank. They’re gone now, ripped out and cut down to increase visibility for the fast food chain.

Every time my mother took me to the bank a teller would give me a lolly pop, just for being a wide-eyed kid. I learned to smile and say “thank you.”

Imagine if more retail outlets gave out candy every time a customer conducted a transaction with them. We’d be happy to refill the fuel tanks in our cars, visit the shoe store, and go to the phone store. And we’d be fatter than we are now.

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