For the fourth consecutive year, Fruit Center Marketplace will support 19 public and private schools located in its primary business areas, Milton and Hingham, with a unique week of fund-raising that allows parents to raise funds for the school of their choice while they shop for groceries. This is just one of countless ways, over the past 40 years, that this local gourmet grocer gives back to the communities it serves.
The program shines because it’s so simple:
1) download a shopping voucher @ http://www.
2) vouchers designate which school will benefit from funds raised while shopping
3) present voucher at checkout unlimited times during the week of November 11-15
4) Fruit Center tallies the dollar amount of each individuals’ purchases during that week, and donates 20% of it to the designated school. $100 spent = $20 donated.
In 2012, says Fruit Center Marketplace marketing director Mike Dwyer, more than $10,000 was donated to participating schools. The key, he adds, is for the schools themselves to alert parents of this opportunity, and to encourage a major shopping spree on behalf of education. Printed vouchers can be used during regular store hours between Monday, November 11 and Friday, November 15, inclusive. Further details are at www.fruitcentermarketplace.
2013 schools participating in Fruit Center’s program:
In Hingham: Derby Academy, East School, Foster School, Hingham High School, Hingham Middle School, Notre Dame Academy, Old Colony Montessori, Plymouth River School, South School and St. Paul’s
In Milton: Collicot School, Cunningham School, Thacher School, Fontbonne Academy, Glover School, Milton High School, Pierce Middle School, St. Agatha’s, St. Mary of the Hills and Tucker School
Family-owned and operated for 40 years, Fruit Center Marketplace is the premier gourmet/specialty food retailer on the South Shore, with stores in Hingham Harbor and East Milton Square. South Shore Living Magazine readers and editors voted Fruit Center Marketplace “Best Produce” in 2013.