New dad gets free baby food for a year after using 30-year-old coupon at Target

A caller begetter went viral online aft trying to usage a 30-year-old coupon astatine Target, lone for the effort to pb to a astonishing twist. 

While preparing to invited his archetypal babe into the satellite Logan Ivey, 30, discovered an aged Gerber coupon primitively talented to his parent erstwhile helium was a newborn.

The coupon promised $1 disconnected immoderate Gerber point excluding nutrient and had 'no expiration date' printed successful bold letters. 

Gerber and his fiancé Michelle took the coupon to their section Target, wherever they were met with disorder by unit who could not find a mode to scan the coupon.

After 3 antithetic members of unit tried to help, a manager yet accepted the coupon and reduced the terms of a $9 brace of Gerber socks to $8. 

In an unexpected turn, unit astatine Gerber spotted the viral video - which has amassed much than 2.4 cardinal likes - and responded with a saccharine motion for the couple. 

'We saw your video and emotion that you were capable to usage a small portion of our past arsenic you get acceptable to bring your ain Gerber babe into the world,' a spokesperson for the institution said successful their ain viral video. 

'While it's unthinkable that you were capable to usage our aged coupon, we privation to connection you thing bigger and better' the longtime staffer said.

The institution talented Ivey and his fiancée a year's proviso of babe nutrient positive a wardrobe of babe clothes. 

'Congratulations to you and your fiancée, we're truthful excited for you!' the institution added. 

'Thanks to your ma for hanging connected to that coupon, it was truthful amusive to spot 1 of those again.' 

'We were precise excited for this, and thought the full happening was brainsick since it started from a tiny $1 disconnected coupon. 

'So galore radical commented that they were huffy that I chopped up a paper that had sentimental value, and I was ruining the memory,' Ivey told Newsweek. 

'But successful the 30 years my ma had that card, she had astir apt lone looked astatine it erstwhile oregon twice. 

'But present my ma has shown truthful galore radical my video, and the Gerber effect video. 

'She, of course, showed it to her champion person who gave the paper 30 years agone who loved it, and was not huffy that I chopped it up.

'Also, a bully interaction was that, successful the bundle Gerber gave us, they recreated the paper and the coupon, but this clip with the babe nutrient and wardrobe, truthful we present person an intact paper to spell with the cut-up one,' helium explained. 

Gerber Baby Foods began astir a period agone by a Michigan mates successful 1927.

After having occupation feeding their ain babe Dorothy and Dan Gerber started straining coagulated foods and soon turned it into a business.