Stop & Shop Supports Doorways with Food Drive

The Newman Ave Stop & Shop in north Seekonk recently held a food drive to address a severe shortage of canned pasta at the Doorways food pantry. As Stop & Shop customers were checking out, the cashier would ask them if they would like to buy a can to donate to the food pantry. The store’s customers responded with overwhelming generosity, as they have so often in the past, and donated 20 cases of canned pasta over the first weekend. Over the course of the following week, store customers donated another 20 cases of canned pasta – an impressive display of the support that the residents of this town have extended to helping ensure food security for their neighbors. “This will last us for several weeks” said Dave Francis of Doorways. “When you are serving over seventy families on a regular basis, it can go quick. Canned pasta with meat is always a desirable item.”

Doorways would like to thank Stop & Shop store manager Sherry Olsen and her wonderful staff and also thank you to the generous store patrons who bought cans of food so that others might eat.