All one toddler wanted for her third birthday was to help her mum at her local Asda. Little Ella Ball had a birthday party with nursery friends, toys from her favourite show Paw Patrol, and also a visit to Asda's Rawtenstall store in Lancashire, wearing her very own green uniform.
Ella likes to play shop on a big scale to be just like her mummy, Debbie, visiting Asda to help Debbie's colleagues at the store, reports LancsLive. Ella's cute green uniform is made from one of her mum's old tops.
Ella’s mum Debbie has worked at the store since last July. Debbie said: “I asked what she wanted to do for her birthday and she said, ‘Go to Asda’.
"Every time she comes into store everyone makes a fuss of her – and she loves it! She loves the shopping, she loves helping – she’ll put things back on the shelves if she sees them in the wrong place – and she likes the attention everyone gives her.”
Ella is a regular at Asda, and Debbie's colleagues love the tot. Service colleague Debbie added: “The top she’s got is one of my old ones.
"It’s got a hole in it, so one of my colleagues, Elizabeth Johnstone, made it into one that Ella could wear. She always wants to come in. Yesterday when I was coming to work I had to leave her kicking and screaming at the door.”
For a special birthday treat, Ella was able to come to the store, do a shop herself, including choosing the items, and then scanning the items through the checkout with the help of colleague Bev Buckley. Debbie said: “She was only on the till for about five minutes but she loved it!”
Community champion at the store, Laura Saxton, says all the store employees love it when Ella visits with her mum.
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