Phil Hirsch, Ohio Man, Wins Supermarket Shopping Spree And Donates To Food Bank

After making a donation to Youngstown State University's annual United Way fundraiser, Phil Hirsch, an administrator at the university, won a supermarket shopping spree. Hirsch was selected out of over 2,000 donors who contributed to the fundraiser.

WYTV in Ohio reports that Hirsch used the shopping spree to donate food to Second Harvest Food Bank of Mahoning Valley, a local food bank affiliated with the national nonprofit Feeding America.

Hirsch said of donating the food:

"It just seemed like the natural thing to do. They can make good use of it."

Hirsch had three minutes to run through a local Save-a-Lot store, pulling rice, pasta, canned goods and more into shopping carts. Altogether, Hirsch collected almost $850 worth of food.

Comments

[jedime]

11:34 PM on 05/27/2010

Hopefully his selfless act will encourage the rest of us to do a kindness for someone we don't know; he has inspired me.

[texastrixie]

03:10 PM on 05/27/2010

If the supermarket had any sense, they would have matched his donation.

[StarDagger]

10:23 PM on 05/27/2010

10x'ed it is more like it. 8000$ is rounding error on a store's quarterly accounting

[Woodrow Monty]

09:59 AM on 05/27/2010

Kudos Sir!

[BrandonBoston]

06:43 AM on 05/27/2010

What a wonderful human being! It's nice to hear something good from Ohio after reading about Billy Joe Gregg who was severely beating animals on a dairy farm in OH. God bless Mr. Hirsch!

[merrimac10]

07:38 PM on 05/26/2010

Hats off to Mr. Hirsch.

[angrymanspokane]

07:17 PM on 05/26/2010

It's people like him, who make people like me, feel like shit.

[StarDagger]

10:24 PM on 05/27/2010

You CAN do the desk press (where you push your chair away from the computer) stand up and go right now to your local food bank and give them some money, or time.

[KevinFitzz]

07:08 PM on 05/26/2010

Good show!

[nybirdcalls]

05:58 PM on 05/26/2010

Hats off to him!

[Shrinath]

04:18 PM on 05/26/2010

You are golden in my book Phil.

[BluGrass]

03:46 PM on 05/26/2010

I know you don't need any praise, Mr. Hirsch, but what you did was wonderful. You're a great role model for the University community, and for anyone reading this news.

[rain33]

03:48 PM on 05/26/2010

yeah that was very nice of mr. hirsch. its too bad that the rest of money makers doesn't realize that the poor and middle are suffering too. he did a nice thing though.