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The previous day, the Kiwanis Club was asked to give up one of their
times on the kettles for Kroger employees. Anyone see a pattern
here?
Rebecca Van Nydeggen, Salvation Army executive director,
explained that the store's employees had decided to split into a
half-dozen teams and have a contest among themselves as to which
team could collect the most money ringing the bell during the
agency's annual Red Kettle campaign.
"This isn't a corporate decision. This is the Lincoln store's
employees deciding to do this on their own," Van Nydeggen said.
The groups were from the deli, bakery, meat, grocery and frozen,
floral and produce, and front office.
The original intention was to see which two groups could do the
best job, and then they would be honored by the store on Christmas
Eve.
As the days have gone by, the exactness of keeping records might
be a little hard to determine.
Store manager Jan Metz explains that fill-ins from employees in
one department on another department's time have occurred several
times.
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"But this is a team effort. This is all of us," Metz explained.
Kathy Horn, the community relations coordinator for the store,
says that with so many employees working at the store for so many
years, most customers know them when they see them ringing the bell
and are extremely generous.
Regardless of whether or not it can be determined which teams did
the best during this contest, the real winner is The Salvation Army
and everyone the agency helps throughout the year.
The red kettle is the SA's principal source of funding, and
VanNydeggen wanted to make a point of recognizing just how special
and important the Kroger store employees are to the agency.
All the employees at Kroger are winners and special in our
tabulations as well.
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