Heartwarming story of how store staff treated homeless man stealing food from shelves

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Workers at the Sheffield Tesco gave the hungry ex-soldier a roast turkey dinner and clothes – and have resolved to help other people on the streets

When staff at a supermarket found a homeless ex-soldier stealing food from their shelves, they didn’t call the police.
Instead, they provided the hungry man with tea, a roast turkey dinner, cake and clothing and listened to how he came to be living on the streets.
His story inspired staff at Tesco in at Burngreave, Sheffield, to do more to help the homeless men and women in the city.
So they took to the streets of the city centre to hand out food and hot drinks to the homeless sleeping rough.


Said Rachel Liszka, the store’s community champion, said: “We have recently noticed the rise in homeless people in Sheffield and decided it is time to help.


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Helping hand: Staff at the Burngreave Tesco were moved by the ex-soldier’s plight
“We had a homeless veteran come into our shop who was caught shoplifting because he was hungry. My colleagues got him a tea and cake and I fetched him a roast turkey dinner from our cafe. He was so grateful he cried.
“Just talking to him was heartbreaking. It was down to circumstances that he had nowhere to live, no food, nothing. I also gave him some clothes from our clothing bank, which staff have been donating clothes to.
“I said to him that if he is hungry again then to come in and see us. We would much rather help him than get him into trouble with the police. Helping him has truly inspired my colleagues to go that extra mile.
Armed with a van full of food, a team of volunteers walked the streets of the city centre to hand out items from the store to the homeless. They now plan to make their good deed a regular event.


Added Rachel said: “We had crisps, bread from our bakery, pancakes, croissants, apples, bananas and oranges. One of our supervisors had bought some sandwiches out of his own money and we gave those out with tea and coffee.


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In need: Workers at the store are now helping the city’s other homeless
“One lady we met had a dairy intolerance and so I went into the Tesco store nearby and they sorted her with a hot drink and I bought her a magazine.
“The people we met are so lovely and so nice. Often people turn their noses up at them and call them drunks and drug addicts, but they haven’t brought it on themselves. More often than not it’s the circumstances and it cannot be helped.
“We would like to encourage everyone to not just walk past a homeless person, but to give them a tea or coffee, a sandwich or a blanket. As a city we should get together and share what we can afford to.
“If nothing else, a smile and a hello rather than a scowl and a tut.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heartwarming-story-how-store-staff-7017712

Brilliant that they have done this, but a terrible indictment of our society that the problem has reached such massive proportions in one of the richest countries in the world.

eddie wrote:

sassy wrote:


LOL it's the Government making all the homeless people!   Sheeesh, it's what their policies are doing.

Yes sassy and the same fucking idiot government that are housing refugees and leaving these poor bastards in the streets!

Charity begins at home - there's enough to go round.

OI wrong thread ...this aint the swearing thread

eddie wrote:

sassy wrote:


LOL it's the Government making all the homeless people!   Sheeesh, it's what their policies are doing.

Yes sassy and the same fucking idiot government that are housing refugees and leaving these poor bastards in the streets!

Charity begins at home - there's enough to go round.

Calling them bastards is going a bit far.

Lord Foul wrote:

eddie wrote:

sassy wrote:


LOL it's the Government making all the homeless people!   Sheeesh, it's what their policies are doing.

Yes sassy and the same fucking idiot government that are housing refugees and leaving these poor bastards in the streets!

Charity begins at home - there's enough to go round.

OI wrong thread ...this aint the swearing thread

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