Whole Foods Sponsors People’s Grocery
The new Whole Foods Market in Oakland is sponsoring People’s Grocery through the “Nickels for Non-profits Donation Program”. When customers bring their own bags in the store to pack their groceries they are given the option of receiving a five cent credit per bag or donating the five cents to People’s Grocery.
While we don’t normally encourage people to shop at any particular retailer, we want to put in a word of encouragement to those who might choose to shop at the new Whole Foods in Oakland (located at 230 Bay Place at Harrison St.) to bring your own cloth bags and donate your five cents bag credit to People’s Grocery. Five cents may not seem like a lot of money, but if many people use their cloth bags the total can add up.
Whole Foods is also going to be sponsoring People’s Grocery’s new SOUL Box program, scheduled to launch in January, by providing one produce item for the each month’s box at no cost to People’s Grocery. This will help more West Oakland families get fresh and affordable produce and reduce costs for People’s Grocery so that we can invest more money into providing education.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:58 am
[…] Whole Foods helping community grocery: The new Whole Foods Market in Oakland is making West Oakland food-justice outfit People’s Grocery the recipient of its “Nickels for Non-profits" program, and will also be donating one item for each of the grocery’s SOUL produce box. (Brahm’s Blog) […]
August 12th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
[…] Meanwhile, the People’s Grocery is also working on opening a market, and unlike Mandela Foods, they actually embrace competition. They have explored creative methods of financial support, including getting sponsorship for Whole Foods. The People’s Grocery has been providing food to West Oakland since 2002. They hope to open their store in early 2009. […]