School children pay a surprise visit to a local supermarket to thank for essential services

Students and teachers of Everglade School in Goodwood Heights paid a surprise visit earlier today to a local supermarket thanking them for their services during the lockdown.

Four Square supermarket on Everglade drive was visited by the children and teachers of the school earlier today and presented with bouquets, message charts, and a beautiful mural on the footpath leading to the store thanking thanked them for remaining open and serving the local community at the time of lockdown and different Alert levels.

Owner of the store, Kharag Singh, expressing his surprise on his social media post said, “Today is the proudest moment of my business life at Four Square… Thanks to these lovely school children of Everglade School for giving us this best present one can receive,”.

Four Square, a supermarket chain in New Zealand, was kept open during different levels of lockdown starting March.

Four Square’s Everglade branch owned by Kharag Singh kept the store running adhering to strict social distancing and contactless precautions then and helped the community get their essentials as and when they needed for survival through the lockdown.

“They [school children] gave us a surprise when they all outside my store on footpath painted with these messages… The teachers and children painted the whole footpath with chalk with the messages such as, ‘thank you 4 Square’, ‘we love you’, ‘we are all in this together’, ‘thank you for still working for us’, ‘thank you essential workers’ and with drawings of hearts, rainbows, flowers, balloons etc.,” Mr Singh said.

The children also presented drawings on chart papers with thank you messages with their names signed, other pictures showing their gratitude towards the essential workers of Four Square workers of Everglade.

Mr Singh expressed gratitude to school children and their teachers for this lovely gesture and passed on the love and respect to his staff members who have been bearing the most of the brunt while forking as frontline essential services staff to serve the community.

“I am thankful to all my staff for rising to the challenge when our nation and our communities needed them the most amidst a public health pandemic,” Mr Singh said.

“I am sure, though, that they would not have expected such a lovely gesture and expression of pure love and joy from school children in our neighbourhood,” Mr Singh concluded.