Logan Ivey was awarded free meals and child clothes after sharing his mom’s Gerber Child coupon. (Gerber Child by way of TikTok)
In a now viral TikTok video with 12.9M views, a brand new father efficiently redeemed a 30-year-old coupon for a brand new pair of Gerber socks, resulting in a heart-warming shock.
Logan Ivey, 30, his fiancé and his mom had been rummaging by previous child footage as he ready for his first bundle of pleasure once they got here throughout the coupon with ‘no expiration date’ printed on it.
“My mom was showing my fiancé Michelle and I a bunch of old baby pictures and baby books of mine, since we are expecting a baby of our own, and in one of the baby albums was a bunch of cards. When I was reading through the cards, I noticed one from my mom’s best friend that had the Gerber coupon in it. We thought it would be funny to try to see if the coupon was actually still usable since it had no expiration date,” mentioned Ivey.
The couple took the coupon to a neighborhood Goal in hopes that they may have the ability to use the piece of historical past and had been met with confusion from the Goal employees. There was no approach to scan the coupon, however the supervisor was nonetheless capable of settle for the coupon and diminished the value of a $9 pair of Gerber socks to $8.
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“We made the video, and it did really well and Gerber was very quick to make a video offering my fiancé and I a year’s supply of baby food and a baby wardrobe. We were very excited for this, and thought the whole thing was crazy since it started from a small $1 off coupon,” mentioned Ivey.
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Gerber’s spokesperson addresses the small piece of historical past and the way blissful Gerber is to have the ability to share within the life-changing occasion of their rebuttal video.
‘We noticed your video and love that you simply had been ready to make use of just a little piece of our historical past as you get able to convey your individual Gerber child into the world,’ a spokesperson for the corporate mentioned in their very own viral video.
‘Whereas it is unimaginable that you simply had been ready to make use of our previous coupon, we need to give you one thing larger and higher’, the longtime staffer mentioned.
Gerber child meals merchandise are seen on a grocery store shelf April 12, 2007 in New York Metropolis. Nestle SA, the world’s largest meals firm, introduced it’ll buy Gerber, the most important child meals producer within the U.S., for $5.5 billion. (Mario Tama/Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
Ivey says many commenters chastised him for chopping up the souvenir.
“So many people commented that they were mad that I cut up a card that had sentimental value, and I was ruining the memory. But in the 30 years my mom had that card, she had probably only looked at it once or twice. But now my mom has shown so many people my video, and the Gerber response video. She of course showed it to her best friend who gave the card 30 years ago who loved it, and was not mad that I cut it up,” mentioned Ivey.
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As one final parting reward, Gerber made positive the couple had one thing to recollect this particular a part of their journey to parenthood.
“Also a nice touch was that in the package Gerber gave us they recreated the card, and the coupon (but this time with the baby food and wardrobe), so we now have an intact card to go with the cut up one,” mentioned Ivey.
