Sam's Club and Martina McBride Team Up With Local Volunteers To Donate Meals To Phoenix St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance

Sam's Club and Martina McBride Team Up With Local Volunteers To Donate Meals To Phoenix St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance

Phoenix associates accompany Martina McBride to load up food donations collected at local Sam's Club for delivery to the city's food bank

PHOENIX, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Country music star Martina McBride joins forces with Phoenix Sam's Club
associates to raise awareness of hunger in the U.S. and urge members
participate in a Spring Hunger Event supporting the largest domestic
hunger-relief charity, Feeding America, with the goal of securing one
million meals this spring. Martina McBride will team up with local
Sam's Club volunteers to load pallets of food into trucks and deliver
WHAT: the donation to the St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance.

Hunger is an issue year-round and can be especially critical in the
spring as post-holiday volunteer efforts and supplies typically
diminish. While many believe that those affected by hunger are
confined to small pockets of society, in reality, one in six Americans
WHY: is struggling with hunger.

WHO: Martina McBride
Sam's Club associates, member volunteers and food bank representatives

WHEN: Saturday, Mar. 24, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Media call time: 12:00 p.m. at the St. Mary's Food Bank*

WHERE: St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance Sam's Club - Phoenix #6608
Del E. Webb Center 1525 West Bell Rd
2831 N. 31st Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85023
Phoenix, AZ 85009 602.439.9852
606.242.3663

* Media are invited to schedule interviews with Martina McBride, Sam's
Club, Feeding America and food bank representatives at the St. Mary's
Food Bank beginning at 12:15 p.m. Please contact Matthew Molino to
arrange an interview.

Sam's Club Members have two ways to participate in reaching the goal of
HOW TO helping Feeding America secure one million meals for local food banks
DONATE: from March 14 to 28 including:
--By purchasing specially marked General Mills items at Sam's Club,
members can help Feeding America secure TEN MEALS for local food banks
once members visit www.outnumberhunger.com/samsclub and enter the
code located on the packaging by March 1, 2013. For every code
entered by March 1, 2013, General Mills will donate $1.30 to Feeding
America - enough to secure 10 meals on behalf of local food banks up
to a maximum donation of $130,000.
-- Members can also place non-perishable food in collection bins at
Sam's Club locations nationwide.
Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), is the
nation's eighth largest retailer and a leading membership warehouse
club offering superior products and services to more than 47 million
Members in clubs across the U.S., as well as in Brazil, China and
Mexico. Members save an average of 34 percent over traditional
retailers. To learn more about Savings Made Simple(R), visit
ABOUT SAM'S SamsClub.com and look for Sam's Club on Twitter, Facebook and our
CLUB: mobile app.

Sam's Club supports community-based programs that empower young
people, families and small businesses to make smart choices that lead
to healthy and bright futures. In 2010, the Sam's Club Giving Program
made cash and in-kind contributions of more than $89 million, which
included donating more than 39 million meals.

Feeding America provides low-income individuals and families with the
fuel to survive and even thrive. As the nation's leading domestic
hunger-relief charity, our network members supply food to more than
37 million Americans each year, including 14 million children and 3
million seniors. Serving the entire United States, more than 200
member food banks support 61,000 agencies that address hunger in all
of its forms. For more information on how you can fight hunger in your
community and across the country, visit http://
ABOUT www.feedingamerica.org. Find us on Facebook at facebook.com/
FEEDING FeedingAmerica or follow our news on Twitter at twitter.com/
AMERICA: FeedingAmerica.

One of the most spectacular voices in any genre of music, Martina
McBride is a four-time CMA Female Vocalist of the Year and GRAMMY(R)
ABOUT winning recording artist with more than 18 million in album sales and
MARTINA six #1s. Three-time ACM Female Vocalist of the Year was most recently
MCBRIDE: nominated again in the category for the 2012 awards.

Martina's first album on Republic Nashville, ELEVEN, includes 11 new
tracks, six of which she co-penned. Her current single, "Marry Me,"
features Train's Pat Monahan and is the follow-up to her 25th career
Top 10 single, "I'm Gonna Love You Through It." In celebration of the
new album, Martina launched "ELEVEN Across America Powered by Amtrak,"
a four-day train ride with 11 stops across the nation. Martina is the
"most played female artist on country radio for the past 11 years,"
according to both Mediabase and Broadcast Data Systems (BDS).

The breadth of her talents - as recording artist, producer, songwriter,
and concert entertainer - has made her an in-demand performer and
personality. Among her hits are such empowering songs as "Independence
Day," "This One's for the Girls," and "A Broken Wing," all of which
have underscored her incredible popularity as one of music's
preeminent female vocalists. She has appeared on such high-profile
programs as VH1 Divas, Dancing with the Stars, TODAY Show's "TODAY
Throws a Wedding," Good Morning America, American Idol, Oprah, The
Bachelorette, Private Sessions, Opry Goes Pink!, a 20/20 special and
much more. Celebrated for her beauty and sense of fashion, as well as
her everywoman perspective in life and music, Martina is a wife and
mother of three girls who has been featured on the covers of
publications like Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, People Magazine,
Country Weekly and Shape.

SOURCE Sam's Club

Sam's Club

CONTACT: Matthew Molino, matthew.molino@cohnwolfe.com, +1-714-421-1732 (on-site), or Marcy Vernier, marcy.vernier@cohnwolfe.com,+1-310-967-2969

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