ST. LOUIS – Local grocery chain Schnucks will launch a personal care item collection drive and a “Round Up at the Register” campaign over the next several weeks to support St. Louis-area tornado victims.

Starting Wednesday, May 28 and continuing through Friday, June 6, all St. Louis-area
Schnucks stores will hold a personal care item drive. Customers are encouraged to bring or purchase personal care items and place them in the designated collection bin at their local store.

Schnucks says the items needed most include:

  • Paper towels
  • Cleaning products
  • Disinfecting wipes
  • Flashlights/batteries
  • Bleach
  • First aid kits
  • Ponchos
  • Toothpaste/toothbrushes
  • Towels
  • Lotion
  • Rubber gloves
  • Shampoo/conditioner
  • Feminine products
  • Baby products
  • Diapers
  • Toilet paper
  • Soap
  • Deodorant

Also starting Wednesday and running through Tuesday, June 10, St. Louis-area Schnucks stores will host a “Round Up at the Register” campaign.

Customers will have an opportunity to contribute to relief efforts simply by rounding up their purchase totals to the nearest dollar. Schnucks Rewards members will also have an opportunity to donate their Rewards points as part of the Donate Your Rewards program.

“Our mission to nourish people’s lives not only includes providing food and sustenance to our customers and careers to our nearly 12,000 teammates, it means responding in times of crisis when our communities need us most – including the neighborhood in North St. Louis where my grandmother opened our first store 86 years ago,” said Schnucks Chairman and CEO Todd Schnuck via a Schnucks news release. “I was able to see the devastation firsthand and it is truly heartbreaking, but we know our customers and community partners share our passion to nourish and restore the community, and we thank them immensely for their efforts and actions in the wake of the storm.”

All donations from both events will be shared evenly between United Way of Greater St. Louis and Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis.

These efforts come on top of Schnucks’ immediate response efforts to the May 16 tornado through St. Louis and nearby municipalities. Within hours of the tornado, Schnucks mobilized teammates and delivered assistance to the neighborhoods directly impacted in northside and westside St. Louis neighborhoods.