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Doing Good by Doing Your Grocery Shopping

Loblaw Companies have been hosting a national food drive for the last 7 years. Loblaw’s focus is to make it easy for their customers to donate along with an important benefit of raising awareness of the issue of hunger.

By operating in over 585 communities across the country millions of pounds of food have been raised for local communities.

Cash donation made right at the checkout helps to augment the food donations.  A donation of just $2 can really add up. Funds allow food banks to purchase food items that are more difficult to donate, such as dairy or produce, and with these additions, it ensures hampers are tasty. More importantly, they are nutritious.

With the Loblaw Companies food drive, 100% of your donations will help fight hunger, 85% of funds raised at the point of sale stay right in the community of the local food bank and help to cover essential costs like:

  • Fresh food purchases
  • Operating costs for the refrigeration and storage of fresh foods
  • Transportation costs to pick up food from other locations

The remaining 15% supports provincial food bank associations, like Alberta Food Banks, to assist food banks in each province through resource sharing, support services and programs. 
Help us stock the food bank shelves this spring! Just look for the bin at all Loblaw locations between March 11th and April 1st. Over 1,000 Loblaw stores are participating, find your local store here.

Need suggestions about what to donate? Learn the most-needed food and household items 
Loblaw supports local food banks every year through two national food drives. Since its inception, the food drives have raised $12.5 million and 11.8 million pounds of food.

Thank you to Loblaw for their ongoing support of food banks across Alberta and across the country!

A donation of $250,000 from CIBC will support food banks around the province. To READ MORE, click on the photo.