He’s writing out a large cashier’s check.
An 88-year-old Army veteran heartbreakingly revealed he works five days a week at a local grocery store to help pay his bills before kindhearted shoppers rallied to raise over one million dollars for his retirement.
Ed Bambas, a cashier at the Meijer store in Brighton, Michigan, lost his pension 13 years ago and is forced to work 40 hours a week — a full-time schedule — despite his age because “he doesn’t have enough income.”
“I retired from General Motors in ’99. In 2012, they went bankrupt and they took my pension away from me,” Bambas told Australian influencer Samuel Weidenhofer, according to a video posted to Instagram.
The octogenarian revealed he was comfortable in his retirement, with a home and stable financial footing, until he was l

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