I'm not sure they do this anymore, but many years ago while an employee at Home Goods, the store had this promotion where employees could get these scratch off cards that reduced the cost of an item by $1, $5, or $20 each time they found a price sticker on the floor. Each card had three scratch off areas, and the catch was you could only scratch off one. However, if you use a lamp, you could see which scratch off area was the one, five, or twenty, meaning that you could easily rack up to $20 gift card for every sticker you found on the floor. The idea was that if employees collected these fallen stickers regularly, nefarious shoppers couldn't stick them on something on a far greater value and check out at the price. There were no rules on how many employees could have or combine, because most folks who worked at the store were middle-aged women who really couldn't give a f and most of the stuff Home Goods sells is garbage. But then there was me, a starving broke college kid who got paid shit, but who worked in the back room unloading trucks and who also was occasionally tasked with stocking shelves. In short, I was the only person who seemed to give a shit about this promotion, and my bosses who wanted to show their higher ups that they were putting the corporate programs into effect were happy to oblige each sticker I presented with a scratch off ticket of my own. Now, Home Goods. While normally a purveyor of fine garbage also occasionally has very nice, very high-end housewares on the cheap, these items, like cookware, linens, comforters, are more often than not usually much more expensive than the rest of the store stock and take a while to sell. For me, the person who unloads a truck, this meant that when I saw something observably nice I could put it very high into a loading bay and just let it sit for a while, because the senior citizens I work with would never go up to get it. At the end of a four-month summer, I amassed about 1,100 of these in these little gift cards and with them I bought a full set of all-clad copper cord cookware, a queen-size down comforter, duvet cover and sheets, pillows, nice flatware, plates and glasses, a dozen useful kitchen tools. To this day, 10 years later, I still have the old clad, which alone retails for $800 on some of the kitchen tools, all of it for free.