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A random act of kindness at a supermarket saw a Wanganui couple leave with nearly $70 of free groceries.

Marion and Clyde Spooner were doing their weekly grocery shop at Pak 'N Save Wanganui on Sunday, when Mr Spooner got chatting to the young woman in front of them in the checkout queue.

“You can pay for ours too,” Mr Spooner said as a joke.

“All right, I will,” the young woman replied.

The couple assumed the woman was joking as well, until they came to pay for their groceries - and discovered she had already paid for them.

Mrs Spooner said the woman was packing up her groceries as she and her husband were unloading their trolley, but by the time they realised what had happened, the woman had disappeared.

“She paid by eftpos and told the checkout girl to add ours to her total. The check-out girl assumed we knew her – but we’d never seen her before.”

Mrs Spooner described their mysterious angel as blonde woman, aged between 20 and 30.

“We were quite bewildered by it, and I ran out to the car park to look for her but I couldn’t find her.

“We were absolutely gobsmacked. It’s not as though we’re poor.”

Mrs Spooner said she and her husband would like the woman to come forward.

“We’d like to thank her for an early Christmas present.

“I’ve never heard of anything like this happening before. It goes to show there are still good people in the world.”