Store Credit
At an old Dayton department store, returning a gift makes the giver forget they ever gave it, and on December 27th the clerk's ex-husband turns up with a box of every present she ever gave him.
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About this episode
Halloran and Pike is a hundred-year-old department store in downtown Dayton, Ohio. Its returns desk has always offered one perk, printed on a laminated card: bring a gift back with its gift receipt and you get store credit, and the person who gave it forgets they ever did. No awkward thank-yous. Dolores Kemper has worked that desk for forty-five years. She has never returned anything, and she always tucks a gift receipt in with the presents she gives.
It's December 27th, the busiest returns day of the year. Her new floor manager has a target to hit, the line runs back past the escalators, and at the end of it stands Glen, the man she was married to for twenty-eight years. He has a cardboard box sealed with masking tape, and every gift inside still has one of her receipts taped to it.
A work of fiction. Performed by synthetic voices.
Presented by Marlowe, performed by synthetic voices. A work of fiction.
