Last-minute shoppers get groceries paid for by local fraternity

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HOUSTON, Texas — Sometimes it pays to procrastinate.

Wednesday night, some last-minute shoppers in southeast Houston got a surprise they won’t soon forget. Their groceries were completely paid for by a local chapter of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

Last minute grocery shopping on the day before Thanksgiving, you can expect to be full of emotion - maybe some anger, frustration or even stress.

But inside the Kroger on Telephone Road, there were emotions you wouldn’t expect.

“Shocking, gratifying, surprising. I told him I said, I almost want to cry. It’s just amazing, it’s beautiful," shopper Isabel Doniz said.

Now part of their yearly tradition, The Rho Beta Beta Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity was stopping shoppers at check out to ask them a very unexpected question.

“Do you mind if I pay for your groceries?"