Foods Co Continues Fight to Help End Hunger ...(items families and individuals relyingon...),Health

America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network is the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through its network of more than 200 member food banks, America's Second Harvest annually provides assistance to more than 25 million people in need, including more than 9 million children and nearly 3 million seniors in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each year, America's Second Harvest secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products to support feeding programs at approximately 50,000 local charitable agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs, and Kids Cafes. To learn more, please visit http://www.secondharvest.org.

About Foods Co:

Foods Co is part of Los Angeles, CA-based Food 4 Less. Food 4 Less was founded in 1988 and currently operates 146 price-impact supermarkets including 22 Foods Co stores in the San Francisco Bay area, Sacramento, and Central California. Food 4 Less is a division of The Kroger Co., (NYSE: KR), one of the nation's largest food retailers, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2007, Food 4 Less donated $10 million to help hunger relief efforts across the country, raise awareness of breast cancer, and support local schools and organizations in the communities it serves. For more information about Foods Co, please visit our web site at http://www.foodsco.net.