Durham Get and Go employee Shannon Emerson works on the IOU board the store instituted when power outages made credit and debit card purchases impossible. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)
DURHAM — In a town where most CMP customers are without power, a convenience store running on generator power has instituted a policy of covering cashless customers’ gas purchases.
Three days after a massive rainstorm knocked out electricity in much of the state, Central Maine Power was still working on restoring electricity Wednesday.
Store owner Donna Church, upon hearing of this, opened up a charge account IOU board for anyone without cash who wished to use it. Church has done this in the past when the town has lost power in snowstorms.
“The customers are like family to us,” said employee Shannon Emerson. “We see them every day.” Emerson was one of the two employees who started putting customers’ gas purchases on her personal account Monday morning.
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