A local grocery chain has raised a considerable amount of money this fall to help combat food insecurity.
Wegmans Food Markets received nearly $3.1 million in donations during its Check Out Hunger campaign, which ran from Oct. 22 to Nov. 29. This is $570,000 more than Wegmans raised during 2024’s campaign.
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Customers could give any amount of money to the campaign when they checked out, including amounts as low as $1. The donations went to Feeding America food banks near each store.
In Erie, $83,418 was donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania.
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Deana Percassi, the Wegmans vice president of community engagement and communications, said that this year’s Check Out Hunger campaign was particularly important. “This year, the Check Out Hunger campaign proved especially vital, arriving at a critical moment when our food bank partners faced a surge in demand caused by the government shutdown and suspension of SNAP benefits,” Percassi said…