The days on the job are numbered for a Michigan grocery store worker - but for good reason.

Ed Bambas, an 88-year-old veteran who works full-time at a Meijer outside of Detroit, was given an oversized check for a whopping $1.77 million, which was the result of an extraordinary fundraising effort by a social media influencer.

During his visit to the U.S., influencer Samuel Weidenhofer visited the Meijer store in Brighton where Bambas is employed and recorded a video for his 7.7 million TikTok followers. In the footage, Bambas shared why he continues to work, explaining that he retired as a salaried employee from General Motors in 1999, but in 2012, he lost his pension due to the company's bankruptcy measures.

The Old General Motors offered lump-sum payments to about 42,000 retirees and

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