Internet “positivity influencers” have helped raise almost $1.2m for an 88-year-old veteran who was working five days a week at a supermarket, finally allowing him to retire.
Ed Bambas, who had initially been retired from General Motors in 1999 but then lost his pension after the company went bankrupt, was manning self-service checkouts at Meijer in Brighton, Michigan, when he caught the attention of Samuel Weidenhofer, an Australian social media influencer.
