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Shuttered Stop & Shop goods to go to local food banks, animal shelters
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LOCAL NEWS
Shuttered Stop & Shop goods to go to local food banks, animal shelters
One of Worcester County Food Bank's partner food pantries.
Courtesy of Jean G. McMurray at Worcester County Food Bank
Sarah Betancourt
October 21, 2024
Updated October 22, 2024
Seven Stop & Shop locations and a bfresh market are shuttering across Massachusetts at the end of the month. Local food banks are working to get the stores’ remaining items into the hands of residents dealing with hunger.
The supermarket chain announced in July they would close 32 locations that were “underperforming.” Stop & Shop’s communication’s team says that, across the Northeast, the organization is already partnered with local hunger relief agencies that pick up food two to three times a week.
One of those organizations is Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, which typically serves about 115,000 residents per month. … “We have been in touch with the store manager from the Cooley St. Stop & Shop,” said Deb Ondo, the communications manager at the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. “He expects to have anywhere between two to five pallets of a variety of food items available as of November 1.”
One of the food bank’s members, Martin Luther King Community Center, will be receiving the goods — and, if there’s too much food, it will be distributed to others in their network, too. … Ondo said the number of people in need is high, and supermarket prices have tightened residents’ budgets.
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LOCAL NEWS
Shuttered Stop & Shop goods to go to local food banks, animal shelters
One of Worcester County Food Bank's partner food pantries.
Courtesy of Jean G. McMurray at Worcester County Food Bank
Sarah Betancourt
October 21, 2024
Updated October 22, 2024
Seven Stop & Shop locations and a bfresh market are shuttering across Massachusetts at the end of the month. Local food banks are working to get the stores’ remaining items into the hands of residents dealing with hunger.
The supermarket chain announced in July they would close 32 locations that were “underperforming.” Stop & Shop’s communication’s team says that, across the Northeast, the organization is already partnered with local hunger relief agencies that pick up food two to three times a week.
One of those organizations is Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, which typically serves about 115,000 residents per month. … “We have been in touch with the store manager from the Cooley St. Stop & Shop,” said Deb Ondo, the communications manager at the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. “He expects to have anywhere between two to five pallets of a variety of food items available as of November 1.”
One of the food bank’s members, Martin Luther King Community Center, will be receiving the goods — and, if there’s too much food, it will be distributed to others in their network, too. … Ondo said the number of people in need is high, and supermarket prices have tightened residents’ budgets.
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