King Soopers is donating enough food and other goods from its Table Mesa store to fill as much as 14 semi-trucks for the hungry in Boulder and Broomfield. The store has been closed since March 22 when a gunman killed 10 people there.
The Table Mesa location was fenced off to the public for two weeks. It was turned over to Kroger — which owns King Soopers — on April 5 but remained closed to the public, according to the Denver Post.
Food and other items on the store’s shelves will be donated to the non-profit Community Food Share over the next few weeks. Community Food Share, a local food bank, has been serving Boulder and Broomfield counties since 1981, the Post story states.
“For us, the only decision was to do something good with the store’s inventory,” Jessica Trowbridge, a spokeswoman for Kings Soopers and City Market, told the Post.
The semis will be filled with food and other items including toilet paper, cleaning products and vitamins.
“Anything we could donate, we are donating,” Trowbridge told the Post. “It will be the single-largest donation ever to Community Food Share. We know that this will never fill the loss, but our desire is that this donation truly honors the victims, their families and our associates.”
Kim Da Silva, executive director of Community Food Share, said the donation was “monumental” and will serve the community for several months.
The donation, Da SIlva told the Post, “…is a gift that honors those who lost their lives through a legacy that will serve their community for months to come.”
