It’s not every day a cheque this size comes across Jim Dores’s desk.
“I haven’t been with Thrifty Foods long but I sense that they are very reactive to situations like that, and when this came across my desk, I thought, holy mackerel, this is tremendous,” Dores said.
Since a massive earthquake and tsunami ravaged parts of Japan on March 11, Thrifty shoppers have donated more than $54,000 at grocery tills in support of relief efforts.
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