VIDEO: Bay Area Store Employees Band Together to Buy a Customer Shoes

BAY AREA, CA -- A man who frequented a Champs Sports store at the Sunvalley Shopping Center in the East Bay city of Concord got the surprise of his life recently when he found out that a pair a shoes that he loved -- but couldn't afford -- were gifted to him by the store's workers.

According to the Champs employees, a 28-year-old man known only as "Tyree" had frequented the store in recent weeks to try on a pair of $160 blue and white Nike brand athletic shoes, but would always leave them behind before getting to the cash register to pay for them.

"It got to the point that we didn't have to ask him what shoe he wanted or the size," store employee Marquese Surrell told local news station KRON4. "That's about how routine it was."

"Ten, 12 times, just 'can I try these on'," store employee Fernando Olivo told the local ABC News affiliate.

Out of the kindness of their hearts, Olivo and his fellow employees raised enough money to buy the shoes for Tyree and then presented to him as a gift.

"I just gave him the shoes and he tried them on and was like 'how much are they?' and I was like, oh, they're $160, but don't worry about it -- just try them on," Olivo said. "And then that's when we surprised him."

As one employee took a cel. phone video of the moment Tyree tried on the shoes, and the astonishment was clear on his face after being told the shoes were his to have.

"Thank you guys, I really appreciate it," Tyree says in above the two-minute video clip.

But not only did Tyree receive the shoes he wanted to badly, but employees also raised enough money to buy him a hat, hoodie and athletic pants.

"Everyone in the Champs helped out and it was really cool," Olivo said. "We didn't expect anything out of this at all."

Video via Champs Sports employees