Weis Markets said its month-long Fight Hunger food drive totaled $356,000 in food bank donations, which will generate 285,000 meals for people in need throughout its marketing area.
The Fight Hunger total includes $156,000 in customer product and monetary donations and $200,000 in corporate donations, which are being made to ten regional food banks.
The Fight Hunger food drive ran during Hunger Action Month in September.
In addition to product donations, customer monetary donations will go to 148 local emergency food providers serving communities near the company's stores.
Weis Markets $200,000 corporate donation will benefit: Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania; The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank (Harrisburg); The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank (Williamsport); The Commission on Economic Opportunity/The Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton); Greater Berks Food Bank (Reading) and the Northwest Community Action Program NORWESCAP Food Bank (Phillipsburg, N.J.), among others.