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Grocery store clerk helps feed thousands as part of Home Team Harvest

Customers at a Safeway store in Woodinville are helping one of the clerks meet a goal.
Customers at a grocery store in Woodinville are especially generous this year. They're helping Frank Joiner, one of the clerks, meet a goal of feeding thousands of families as part of KING 5's Home Team Harvest.

WOODINVILLE, Wash. -- Customers at a grocery store in Woodinville are especially generous this year.

They're helping Frank Joiner, one of the clerks at the Safeway store, meet a goal of feeding thousands of families as part of KING 5's Home Team Harvest.

"He talks about it six months prior to when it starts, and he just keeps going after it, and there isn't a day that he doesn't give 100% selling the hunger bags," said Dan Anderson, store director.

Those bags, full of groceries, help provide dinner for lots of families, and this year many of them can thank Joiner, who just reached a personal goal of selling 2,000 bags.

"I got past 1,500 and then it just started snowballing a little bit and now we're almost at 2,100," he said.

"As I've looked at the numbers, his personal tally is as much as some entire stores combined," said Micah Wessman, a manager.

Joiner's Safeway outperforms all other Safeway stores in the region when it comes to selling the bags.

They reset the scoreboard every morning and some days tally up more than two hundred bags.

"Oh it's great, I love flipping that sign," said Joiner.

They're expecting more donations this weekend as customers stock up for Christmas.

"We're doing a lot of good, that's what counts," said Joiner.

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