ROCHESTER NY – Ten Pennsylvania food banks that help supply hungry families and individuals with groceries, including four that serve Montgomery and Chester counties, recently received thousands of dollars in donations from customers of Wegmans Food Markets.
Wegmans, which operates locally in Collegeville and King of Prussia, held food bank donation drives at its stores last fall. Collectively, Wegmans said in a Thursday (Jan. 23, 2025) media release, the company raised more than $2.5 million across nine states during its “hunger relief checkout scanning campaign.”
Customers at each store were offered opportunities to donate any amount as they checked out with their purchases. All of the proceeds were then given to the stores’ local Feeding America food bank partners for distribution.
“Our scan campaigns bring awareness to the rising issue of hunger in our community and make it easy for our customers to donate to their local food banks,” said Linda Lovejoy, Wegmans community relations manager. Over more than 30 years, the campaigns have generated more the $55 million in customer contributions, the company adds.
How Local Organizations Benefited
Of this year’s total, $116,216 was given to TriCounty region recipients: Manna On Main Street, $16,437; the Cluster Outreach Center, $24,000; Philabundance, $31,564; and the Chester County Food Bank, $44,215. An additional $149,057 was distributed to seven other food banks in Bucks County, Central Pennsylvania, State College, the Scranton area, Lancaster County, and the Lehigh Valley.
Money was also distributed to food banks in Delaware, $10,214; the District of Columbia, $6,338; Maryland, $102,507; Massachusetts, $102,047; New Jersey, $129,095; New York, $1,562,235; North Carolina, $116,422; and Virginia, $226,925.
Wegmans says its stores also “provide daily food donations of unsaleable perishable foods to local food banks, financial assistance via corporate gifts, and sponsorship for various events or fundraisers.”
Wegmans Food Markets Inc. is a regional supermarket chain with 111 stores located along the east coast. The family company observed its 100th anniversary in 2016.
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