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By Staff Reporter 
3h ago
CAPE TOWN – An anonymous benefactor donated R270,000 to lucky customers at the PEP store on Marsh and Zietsman streets in Mossel Bay on Wednesday.
PEP marketing executive Beyers van der Merwe said the person wanted to reward the staff who had served them at a local restaurant with some items of their choice at PEP, and then decided to expand the extraordinary gesture to everyone in the store. PEP at that time.
“The donor also took to the streets and encouraged passersby to enter the store. Understandably, this led to some security issues and the store had to be closed for a while.”
Van der Merwe said that R192,500 was paid in sales that day and the balance of R77,500 is being used in the Lay-by Buddies PEP scheme which allows anyone to anonymously help clients settle their savings interest free.
PEP will match the R77 500 and all items made at the Marsh and Zietsman Streets store in Mossel Bay by Thursday, November 12 will be settled. Lay-by customers will receive an SMS with a reference number to pick up their merchandise at this store.
Since the launch of Lay-by Buddy, which began during the closing, PEP has contributed R1.5 million to pay for customer items and more than R100,000 in donations come from people who want to help through online donations or in the shop. .
Surprisingly, a similar incident occurred at a Mossel Bay PEP store in December 2019 when a different anonymous donor paid another large sum of money via Lay-by Buddy vouchers.
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