We often hear about store customers doing good deeds for other customers - but sometimes random acts of kindness take place on the other side of the checkout counter.
That's what happened this week at Sunshine Foods in Brandon where a teenage clerk helped a customer on food stamps. The cashier's kindness is now a sensation on social media.
16-year-old Hunter Cole has worked at Sunshine Foods in Brandon for barely a month.
"I like talking to the customers, it's nice to see people," Hunter said.
Yet this new hire, who's still learning on the job, can show the most seasoned of us how to respond to someone in need.
"So I was checking out as normal," Hunter said.
On Tuesday, Hunter was ringing up an elderly customer on food stamps whose EBT account came up short by $2.65. So Hunter pulled out his wallet and covered the balance himself.
"I just felt it was the right thing to do, just kind of felt like I should do it," Hunter said.
The customer seemed grateful for Hunter's financial help.
"I think he might have smiled and went away," Hunter said.
Another customer witnessed Hunter's random act of kindness and posted it on Facebook.
"I didn't expect it to be on Facebook, or, I didn't expect this to happen," Hunter said.
"I think it's fantastic that we have a new employee who just seems to be a natural and obviously, was raised right," Sunshine Foods Store Manager Amy Gaikowski said.
Hunter doesn't mind giving away some of the hard-earned money he makes on the job.
"I do get paid tomorrow," Hunter said.
The modest Hunter thinks people are making too big of a deal about his paying for a customer's bill. After all, he says, it was only $2.65. But then, you really can't put a price tag on kindness. Its true measure is in the people willing to put others ahead of themselves.
"Young kids, older people, that are willing to go the extra mile to help somebody is just always good to hear," Gaikowski said.
Over-the-counter compassion courtesy of Hunter Cole, brightening the lives of customers at Sunshine.
It turns out, this wasn't the first time Hunter assisted a financially-strapped customer. He says he also helped another Sunshine customer with paying a bill, only that time, there were no witnesses to report it on social media.