Crown Hill Grocery Outlet kicks off month-long food drive next week

Starting next week, the Crown Hill Grocery Outlet will start their month-long food drive to benefit needy Seattle residents. The company-wide Independence from Hunger Food Drive starts July 1, and the Crown Hill store is taking food and cash donations to benefit the Fallen Brothers of Seattle, a community veteran outreach program. Summer months are typically slow for food bank donations, so the Grocery Outlet is hoping to help alleviate the slow period.

Photo courtesy Grocery Outlet

Here’s how you can help, from the Grocery Outlet:

• Look for specialty-marked food items OR a non-food toiletries bag. These are items that are in need for the community. Purchase these items and put them in “BLUE COLLECTION BIN” at the front of the store.

• Tell a Crown Hill Grocery Outlet cashier that you would like to make a cash donation at the register. ALL MONEY RAISED will go DIRECTLY to Fallen Brothers of Seattle. Likewise, all donated food and non-food donations go directly to Fallen Brothers of Seattle.

Over the past two years, the Grocery Outlet has raised over $500,000 in cash, gift cards, non-food and food donations company-wide. Get updates from the outlet at their Facebook page.