Walmart cashier uses her own money to help pay for elderly customer's groceries

A Walmart employee dipped into her own pocket recently to help an elderly customer pay for his groceries.

Jenny Karpen was a new cashier at a Walmart in upstate New York when an elderly man did not have enough money to cover the food he was buying for himself and his pet.

"And he was like, 'Is it enough?'" Karpen told News 10 in Albany. "And I was like, 'No, it's not.' So he was trying to take stuff back."

That's when Karpen stepped in. She took $40 of her own money to help finish paying for the purchase.

The next person in line saw what Karpen had done and in turn offered her money, but Karpen declined.

Karpen's manager wishes there were more people in the world like her.

"We just need to clone Jenny," Jamie Cobb told News 10. "We need to have Jenny's one through 10."