For every purchase made online or in-store,
Loblaw will donate $1 to President's
Choice Children's Charity
BRAMPTON, ON, Aug. 31,
2023 /CNW/ - Loblaw Companies Limited (TSX: L)
will hold its first Get to Give Day on September 7, in support of President's Choice
Children's Charity – which operates the nation's largest charitable
school food program. For every purchase made (some exclusions
apply) in-store or through PC Express at a participating Loblaw
grocery store, the company will donate $1 to President's Choice Children's Charity.
On Get to Give Day, Loblaw has a goal to donate
$2 million for President's Choice
Children's Charity, with 100 per cent of funds helping to feed
children in schools across Canada.
How to support President's Choice
Children's Charity:
- Shop in-store or through PC Express on September 7, and Loblaw will donate
$1 for every purchase made to
President's Choice Children's Charity, with 100 per cent of
donations helping to feed children in schools across Canada.
- Throughout the year, customers can also donate to President's
Choice Children's Charity when using self-checkout in-store or
donate online anytime at PCChildrensCharity.ca.
- Donate PC Optimum™ points to President's Choice Children's
Charity at PCOptimum.ca.
President's Choice Children's Charity is on a mission to feed 1
million kids annually by 2025. Through its Power Full Kids™
programs, President's Choice Children's Charity reached more than
840,000 children nationwide in 2022, operating in 1700 schools
across the country.
Quotes:
"For more than three decades, Loblaw colleagues, customers,
store teams and vendors have come together to support President's
Choice Children's Charity, helping to nurture the wellbeing of
children in Canada," said
Mark Wilson, Chief Human Resources
Officer at Loblaw and Chair of President's Choice Children's
Charity. "Canadians can join the movement to help feed 1 million
kids by simply doing what they already do... buying groceries."
"We are grateful to our founding partner, Loblaw, and its
customers for their support," remarked Lisa
Battistelli, Executive Director, President's Choice
Children's Charity. "We know that children experiencing hunger miss
more school, find it difficult to concentrate and experience higher
levels of anxiety. This donation will help us fuel even more
Canadian students and remove hunger as a barrier to learning."
"The Power Full Kids™ program is the reason why I can offer any
student who needs it access to start their day with a full tummy,"
explains Jay Poitras, Principal,
Pauline Johnson Public School in
Burlington, ON. "The program
offers children security — knowing that they will get nutritious
food at school every day relieves a huge burden from their little
minds."
About Loblaw Companies
Limited:
Loblaw Companies Limited is Canada's food and pharmacy leader, as well as
its largest retailer and private sector employer. With
approximately two billion transactions each year in its unmatched
network of nearly 2,500 stores and national e-commerce options,
Loblaw brings food, pharmacy, beauty, apparel and financial
services to customers through many of Canada's favourite and most-trusted brands:
President's Choice®, No Name®,
Loblaws®, Shoppers Drug Mart®, No
Frills®, Real Canadian Superstore®,
T&T®, Joe
Fresh®, PC ExpressTM and PC
Financial®. The company's loyalty program, PC
OptimumTM, has more than 18 million members and is one
of Canada's largest, and most
loved reward programs.
Loblaw's purpose is to help Canadians live life well. It makes
good food affordable, health, beauty and wellness accessible,
saving for the future possible, and essential style achievable.
About President's Choice
Children's Charity (Charitable Registration: 86842 1546
RR0001)
For 33 years, President's Choice Children's Charity has been
dedicated to helping children across Canada, and in that time, has nurtured the
wellbeing of almost 7.7 million children. Since 2018, the charity
has been committed to the fight against childhood hunger to ensure
all Canadian children can live the life they choose. President's
Choice Children's Charity operates the nation's largest charitable
school food program and its Power Full Kids™ programming combines
regular meals and snacks with food skills education. The charity's
ambition is to feed one million children every year, by 2025.
For more information or to give, visit
www.pcchildrenscharity.ca
SOURCE Loblaw Companies Limited