This Costco bill in Durham, North Carolina, is over $100,000 because a teacher wanted to help her students experiencing food insecurity.
A Costco in Durham, North Carolina, printed its bulkiest receipt ever earlier this month — to the sum of $103,079.70.
Turquoise Parker, a teacher in Durham, started the Bull City Foodraiser in 2015, when she discovered that many of her students were experiencing“I had a family come to me and say, ‘’We don’t know how we’re going to eat. Can you please help us?’” Parker told“But we realized if one family was asking, there were probably a lot more who could benefit from the same thing,” she said.Parker fired off a text message to"pretty much every contact" in her phone.
"It’s been awesome for me to kind of ride shotgun on this with her and see what it’s become," Doucette told TODAY.
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