Arkansas mom buys all shoes in closing Payless store to donate to kids in needFox News, Jul 28, 2019, Talia Kaplan
An Arkansas mother bought all of the shoes from a closing Payless ShoeSource store to give to children in need before the school year begins.
Carrie Jernigan, a mother of three, told Fox News she bought nearly 1,500 pairs of shoes. She did not disclose how much she paid but told Fox News her receipts indicated she saved about $21,000, although she paid just a fraction of that number.
"I'm in the schools a lot and where I live we have a very high poverty rate," Jernigan, the president of the Alma School Board, told Fox News. Alma is between Fayetteville and Fort Smith.
"My immediate thought was, this could put so many shoes on kids that would not have new shoes to start back to school," she added.
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