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OneGrassRoot

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Wed Apr 10, 2013, 08:56 AM Apr 2013

Hero with a $20,000 heart: Walmart worker honored for returning cash left in cart

An upbeat immigrant from Ghana, known for his cheerful helping of customers at the Walmart in Federal Way, is being honored by the retail giant for his quick work in returning an envelope stuffed with cash to the customers who had accidentally left it in a shopping cart.



It was in the early afternoon of a mid-October 2012 day that Bismark Mensah was collecting carts outside a Walmart in Federal Way, a part-time job for which he earned $9.05 an hour as a “courtesy associate.”

He was used to finding stuff in carts that customers had somehow forgotten — keys, credit cards, wallets. And he turned them in to customer service.

But this particular item stood out. It was a white envelope with a clear window in the middle, bulging with what was inside, a lot of cash. Around $20,000, it turned out.

FULL ARTICLE: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020721491_walmartxml.html
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Hero with a $20,000 heart: Walmart worker honored for returning cash left in cart (Original Post) OneGrassRoot Apr 2013 OP
Wow, that is an honest man! Cha Apr 2013 #1
Second that Motion.......nt Stuart G Apr 2013 #2

Cha

(295,929 posts)
1. Wow, that is an honest man!
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 11:59 PM
Apr 2013

thank you, OGR

Mensah says keeping the $20,000 never occurred to him.

“My conscience wouldn’t allow it. I couldn’t even drive home if I did that,” he says.

Wisdom says she called the store twice to make sure management knew about Mensah’s good deed.

She also tried to again do something to thank him, but he declined her offer to be taken out to dinner.
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