Patriot Wal-Mart to donate $258K to military groups
January 19th, 2007 by Patriot
Looks like everybodys favorite store to hate isn't so bad after all.
In its continuing effort to reach out to the military community, Wal-Mart has announced that 68 new stores will donate a combined $258,000 to military charities across the country as part of grand opening celebrations.
The donations will go to Disabled American Veterans, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars posts, Operation Homefront and the National Guard. Examples of donations are a $3,000 donation to the National Guard in Woodstock, Ill.; a $5,000 donation to the VFW post in Columbus, Ohio; and a $6,000 donation to the American Legion post in Nebraska City, Neb.
I think this is awesome! It's a shame that there aren't more companies across the US following WalMart's lead.
Very good news! As Terri said other companies should be doing the same thing!
After all of the money that we troop supporters have given Walmart,it is nice to see them giving some of it back
I don't know about donations but I have heard good things about the way Sears treats it's employees who get deployed. Things to think about when we go out to spend our money.
I think I am going to shop there today!