Staff Writer
memara@fortfrances.com
Effective today, Safeway Fort Frances will no longer be giving plastic bags when checking out customers.
This is done to honour the store’s goal of stopping the use of plastic bags with the beginning of their new fiscal year on May 5.
Krystle Whiteley, Safeway manager, said customers have been reminded of the new rules via an automated recording that plays on the store speaker as they are shopping.
“We have signage throughout the entire store and our cashiers are communicating with our customers,” Whiteley said. “I think that’s the goal with the entire town. A lot of our customers already have reusable bags. I think as a whole, the community does very well with the use of reusable bags. We do sell quite a few [reusable bags] all year round.”
Safeway store manager Krystle Whiteley presents cheque to Salvation Army s Arthur Heathcote.
More support for the Salvation Army in Fort Frances – this time, coming from Safeway.
The store collected $3,798.24 in donations from customers during a campaign in December.
Store Manager Krystle Whiteley is pleased with that support.
“The community was very receptive as always. They showed up to support one another and the families in need over the holidays, and we were just more than happy to be a part of that,” says Whiteley.
The Salvation Army’s Auxiliary Captain Arthur Heathcote is appreciative to those who contributed.
“The community is not only concerned about homelessness, but they’re willing to do something about it too, and that’s in the very tangible way where we are able to see this $3,700 came out of the customers’ pockets. That demonstrates care,” says Heathcote.