Honesty is the best policy, well that’s what they say. I’m not exactly the best example for honesty (I admit there has been times when I was given the wrong amount of change and I didn’t say anything) but there is this one store at my school that I think promotes honesty the best way I’ve ever seen. It’s name of course is the Honesty store.
The Honesty store was brought to my attention by my friend Eric Smith (his blog can be found in my blog roll). The store is well not really exactly like all the stores that we know, its basically a cabinet with food on the shelves and a metal cashbox. The idea of the Honesty store is for patrons to practice honesty by taking what they want and paying for it without anyone having to be there to know that you paid. All proceeds from the Honesty store goes to the Ensign Phillip Pestaño foundation, a foundation created for the benefit of children of deceased army personel. Ens. Philip Pestaño is Eric’s cousin who died back in 1995 and his death was unjustly closed as a suicide until 2000 when foreign investigators and the court ruled it as a murder.
Quite a cool idea isn’t it? It was launched last friday with the first store opening at the Manuel V. Pangilinan building (a building with mostly organization rooms) at my school. A couple more opened over the weekend at the Cervini and Eliazo residential halls.
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Honesty is often unwise, especially in terms of business. I see the moral value of a store like this, but were it anything other than a not for profit store I do not see it succeeding. People are by nature dishonest. Still I hope for the sake of Goodness it does well.
well for one its not exactly a “business” lol as we usually think a business is. The store is set up in a private ivy-league equivalent, exclusive college as well so well security is not exactly an issue
Hm. It might work. They have at the school of psychology office a box with takeable chocolates and a coin slot.