New York Giants Football Players Help Stop & Shop Unload Thanksgiving Turkeys for Donation

New York Giants Defensive Lineman Robert Thomas and Stop & Shop’s Nicole Burke helped to off-load 1,500 turkeys that Stop & Shop donated to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey as part of Stop & Shop’s annual Turkey Express program. Thomas was joined by teammates Kelvin Shepard, Landon Collins, Trevor Wade, Ereck Flowers, Brad Wing, Robbie Gould and Zak DeOssie.

Stop & Shop’s Turkey Express program will deliver nearly 21,000 turkeys to hunger relief organizations in New Jersey, New York Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island this holiday season.

Hunger remains a very real problem in New Jersey with more families forced to make donated food an ongoing, basic part of their plan to make ends meet. More people are coming more often to pantries and other feeding programs because they are forced to use their ever-eroding resources to pay for other critical needs such as housing, transportation and medicine, with little or nothing left over for food. Almost 900,000 people in New Jersey rely on food banks, and 7.7 million times a year, someone in need is fed by a food bank partner charity.

Stop & Shop donates over $12 million in product and financial support to individual food banks. In addition to the Turkey Express program, Stop & Shop continues to fight hunger through the Food for Friends campaign, which will raise more than $1 million this year for more than 300 local hunger relief organizations.