Customers of Wegmans Food Markets raised a record $769,300 during the company’s two-week food drive to support local food banks’ increased summer needs. Known regionally as Fill the Bus or Fill the Backpack, the campaign ran June 3-17. Customers donated at checkout, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to support each store’s local Feeding America food bank partner. Companywide, customers donated $43,000 more than in 2025.
“Each year, our customers step up in an incredible way to support their neighbors, and their generosity continues to inspire us,” said Deana Percassi, Wegmans vice president of community engagement and communications. “Our employees are also essential to the success of this program, helping raise awareness and drive donations that make a meaningful difference in the fight against hunger.”
Donations from the campaign support local food banks’ summer feeding and backpack programs, helping ensure school-aged children have access to nutritious food when free and reduced-price school meals are not available.
“We at Community FoodBank of New Jersey are so pleased with the results of Wegmans’ Fill the Bus campaign this year, which raised enough funds for 57,000 nutritious meals – about 23,000 more than last year,” said Elizabeth McCarthy, president and CEO of the Community FoodBank of New Jersey. “With food insecurity on the rise, it’s heartening to see that support from the public is increasing, too. Thank you to Wegmans and their generous customers for helping advance our mission.”
Customers’ donations stay in their local community, with all proceeds going to each store’s local food bank. Recipients and 2026 amounts by state are:
Connecticut: Connecticut Foodshare, $4,868 (Norwalk).
Delaware: Food Bank of Delaware, $4,035 (Wilmington).
District of Columbia: Bread for the City, $5,408 (Wisconsin Avenue).
Maryland: Anne Arundel County Food Bank, $3,024 (Crofton); City of Frederick, $3,329 (Frederick); Harford Community Action Agency, $3,921 (Bel Air); Howard County Community Action Council, $7,845 (Columbia); Manna Food Center, $4,095 (Germantown); Maryland Food Bank, $8,860 (Hunt Valley and Owings Mills); Shabach Ministries, $1,126 (Woodmore); So What Else, $2,167 (Rockville).
Massachusetts: Greater Boston Food Bank, $17,825 (Burlington, Chestnut Hill, Medford and Westwood); Worcester County Food Bank, $7,748 (Northborough).
New Jersey: Community FoodBank of New Jersey, $19,002 (Bridgewater, Woodbridge and Montvale); Fulfill, $8,098 (Ocean and Manalapan); Food Bank of South Jersey, $9,558 (Cherry Hill and Mt. Laurel); Interfaith Food Pantry, $13,412 (Hanover); Mercer Street Friends, $6,464 (Princeton).
New York: Campaign Against Hunger, $702 (Brooklyn); City Harvest, $1,569 (Astor Place); Food Bank for NYC, $1,569 (Astor Place); FeedMore WNY, $178,044 (11 stores in the Greater Buffalo area); Foodlink, $160,396 (21 stores in the Greater Rochester area); Food Bank of the Southern Tier, $53,236 (Corning, Elmira, Hornell, Ithaca and Johnson City); Food Bank of Central New York, $26,067 (nine stores in the Greater Syracuse area); Island Harvest, $828 (Lake Grove); Long Island Cares, $828 (Lake Grove); Feeding Westchester, $5,057 (Harrison).
North Carolina: Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, $11,527 (Raleigh and West Cary); PORCH Chapel Hill/Carrboro, $6,660 (Chapel Hill); Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry, $6,476 (Wake Forest).
Pennsylvania: Bucks County Opportunity Council, $9,033 (Warrington and Yardley); Chester County Food Bank, $6,429 (Downingtown and Malvern); Cluster Outreach Center, $5,220 (Collegeville); Food Bank of Central PA, $5,602 (Harrisburg and Williamsport); Food Bank of State College, $4,440 (State College); Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank, $4,550 (Dickson City and Wilkes-Barre); Lancaster County Food Hub, $2,917 (Lancaster); Manna on Main Street, $3,620 (Montgomeryville); Philabundance, $9,179 (King of Prussia and Concordville); Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley & Northeast Pennsylvania, $21,240 (Allentown, Bethlehem and Nazareth); Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania, $27,008 (West Erie and Peach Street).
Virginia: ACTS, $11,290 (Potomac); Alive!, $2,604 (Carlyle); Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, $5,103 (Charlottesville); Capital Area Food Bank, $9,878 (Alexandria and Woodmore); FeedMore, $7,476 (Midlothian and Short Pump); Food Bank of Southeastern VA and Eastern Shore, $3,722 (Virginia Beach); Food for Others, $15,257 (Fairfax, Reston and Tysons Corner); Fredericksburg Area Food Bank, $7,417 (Fredericksburg); Loudoun Hunger Relief, $10,162 (Dulles and Leesburg); SERVE, $7,473 (Lake Manassas); Western Fairfax Christian Ministries, $5,909 (Chantilly).
The program began in 2013 as a traditional food drive, with customers donating more than 3.7 million pounds of food from 2013 to 2019. In 2021, Wegmans transitioned the effort to a scan campaign and expanded it companywide in 2023. The campaign has raised more than $3.5 million since 2021.
Wegmans also provides daily donations to local food banks, food pantries and soup kitchens across all its market areas. In 2025, the company donated more than 36.8 million pounds of food, and its customers raised more than $4.7 million through its annual scan campaigns.
Wegmans Food Markets Inc. is a regional supermarket chain with 114 stores along the East Coast. The family company celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016 and has been named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For for 29 consecutive years, ranking No. 5 in 2026.