Ocean State Job Lot launches Donation Campaign

Ocean State Job Lot launched a Donation Campaign for the Holidays, pledging $50,000 and encouraging their customers to match Job Lot's commitment. The response was overwhelming. Ocean State Job Lot raised over $240,000 including the $50,000 company match earmarked for food donations to local pantries throughout New England where we operate stores!

Ocean State Job Lot's co-founder, Alan Perlman, said that the food donations are part of the company's ongoing effort to address the serious hunger problem that exists in New England.

Perlman said the effort is also an opportunity for Job Lot to "give back to the many communities that have allowed the company to grow from a single store location to a multi-state retail chain with 81 stores throughout New England".

On Thursday, Ocean State Job Lot delivered approximately 18 pallets of food to the Western Massachusetts Food Pantry, in Hatfield.

The following local community food pantries/community centers will pick up food earmarked for their