Enhanced Retail Techniques

JD from Ripley gave his best hug to a crew member for a cup of coffee! #PayWithLovin pic.twitter.com/vPwiElbVqJ

— McDonald’s MidSouth (@MCD_MidSouth) February 4, 2015

“If the ‘Pay with Lovin’’ scenario looks touching on television, it is less so in real life. A crew member produced a heart-shaped pencil box stuffed with slips of paper, and instructed me to pick one. My fellow customers seemed to look on with pity as I drew my fate: ‘Ask someone to dance.’ I stood there for a mortified second or two, and then the cashier mercifully suggested that we all dance together. Not wanting to be a spoilsport, I forced a smile and ‘raised the roof’ a couple of times, as employees tried to lure cringing customers into forming some kind of conga line, asking them when they’d last been asked to dance.”