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Fighting Hunger with Menards · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Thirteen ten Wiva and Madison in the morning. Joining us
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Darryl Erickson. He is the general manager of
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  Speaker 1: the West Side Menard's location. Daryl, how you doing this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Sean. Thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: It's great to have you on again.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always great because every time we've had you
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  Speaker 1: on the program talking about some really good stuff for
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  Speaker 1: the community. And obviously, now that we're into the summer months,
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  Speaker 1: most kids have summer summers off, which means a very
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  Speaker 1: valuable lifeline for them when it comes to food.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't there anymore schools?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously breakfast, lunch and other things, and food and security
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  Speaker 1: becomes a bigger issue during the summer months. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the really cool things that's going on at all
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  Speaker 1: the Minards locations here in the area. You guys are
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  Speaker 1: doing a food drive, aren't you, Daryl.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are at this location in the Madison market.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing food drive through the end of July.
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  Speaker 1: All fantastic. So that's west Side, you got the Monona,
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  Speaker 1: You've got east Side just off the interstate sun Prairie
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  Speaker 1: location as go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Was that yes, yep? So I'm pravery too.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: All the minards areas are doing that well.
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  Speaker 1: That is absolutely fantastic, and we talk about some of
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  Speaker 1: the benefits. There are some food pantries. You guys work
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  Speaker 1: closely with the area of food pantries, don't you, right.
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  Speaker 2: The one that the Madison West side here that we
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  Speaker 2: are affiliated with for this food drive is the Society
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  Speaker 2: of Saint Vincent de Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, fantastic organisms.
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  Speaker 2: They they work really yep, they work really well with us.
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  Speaker 2: They actually provide bins that we set at the two
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  Speaker 2: front entrances of our building where you cannot purchase non
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  Speaker 2: perishable food items and drop them in there. And if
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  Speaker 2: you just want to donate some that you have already
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  Speaker 2: nonperishal items, you can drop those off too. We do
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  Speaker 2: accept those also.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know a lot of folks wonder about that
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  Speaker 1: is you know, if is there an opportunity I know,
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  Speaker 1: and for folks that are regular shoppers like myself with minards. No,
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  Speaker 1: you guys have have a great section there for food
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  Speaker 1: items and other things that folks can also pick up
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  Speaker 1: and donate. But you do say, folks kind if they've
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  Speaker 1: got nonperishable stuff at home, they can they can bring
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  Speaker 1: them in as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, that would be fine. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So with this as we're talking this morning with Darryl
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  Speaker 1: Erickson with Minards, of course they've got their big food
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  Speaker 1: drive running now through the end of July. A great
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  Speaker 1: day to get on in and whether you want to
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  Speaker 1: pick up some items in store or do a drop off,
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  Speaker 1: and those benefits to the local food pantry. How long, Daryl,
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  Speaker 1: do you know how many years now you guys have
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  Speaker 1: been participating in doing this event.
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  Speaker 2: It has been several years, and I would like to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Madison market, it seems very generously. We
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  Speaker 2: do have a good turnout on that. I really do
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  Speaker 2: appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the.
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  Speaker 1: Really interesting things. And it's a great point you bring
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  Speaker 1: up there, Darryl, is Madison is a very generous community. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of times we forget because it's
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  Speaker 1: also you know, you look around, you think everybody's doing
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  Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. There are those in need here and you
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  Speaker 1: can't always tell outwardly of who those folks are. And
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  Speaker 1: having a great event like this and a great opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and a convenient opportunity as well, is a big thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's an important point is I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us want to help out, and we
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  Speaker 1: have all these great intentions. Sometimes just making it convenient
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  Speaker 1: makes all the difference. I think that's kind of one
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  Speaker 1: of the really cool things you guys are able to
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  Speaker 1: do with Minards is having the very convenient locations, very
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  Speaker 1: convenient hours. It makes it really easy for folks who
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  Speaker 1: want to help out, really gives them a good avenue
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  Speaker 1: to in a very convenient avenue to do just that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, in our store hours Monday, Monday through Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: we're open six am to ten pm, and on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: we're opening eight a m To a pm. So that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly it Seohn. It's very convenient. We're opening a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hours and they stop in, just stop by the
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  Speaker 2: grocery section and you can drop it off on the
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  Speaker 2: way out when you go through the registers.
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  Speaker 1: Convenience, Convenient, convenient locations, convenient Barrel's a great time of
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  Speaker 1: year to do just that. Darryl Erickson with Menard's website,
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  Speaker 1: Folks may want to go to to get more information.
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  Speaker 1: You got something like that available.
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  Speaker 2: They could email me directly if they'd like to. At Maddie,
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  Speaker 2: general manager at Minards dot com. It's m Adi general
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  Speaker 2: manager at Minards dot com, or they could just go
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  Speaker 2: to Minards dot com website and take a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Emmy here, we're here to help out the community anyway
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  Speaker 2: we can. M. E.
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  Speaker 1: N A.
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  Speaker 3: R DS dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Always great chatting with you, Daryl, keep up the great work,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for all the great stuff that you guys do
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  Speaker 1: at Minards, and look forward to talk to you again
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  Speaker 1: real soon.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Sean, have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: More of Madison in the morning comes your way next
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  Speaker 1: right here on thirteen ten w I B A