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 # Retailers Nationwide Ask Consumers to Save and Improve Lives During Annual #MDAShamrocks Campaign

 

##### More than 20,000 local businesses participate in the St. Patrick's Day-themed tradition to support treatments and cures for families affected by neuromuscular disease

 

 

 Mar 9, 2018 3:05 PM ET

  Campaign:  [Communities We Serve](/news/campaign/communities-we-serve)  

[Originally published on PRNewswire by the Muscular Dystrophy Association](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/retailers-nationwide-ask-consumers-to-save-and-improve-lives-during-annual-mdashamrocks-campaign-300609120.html?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BdtXR0wwdQQ2s%2BIP9IUVkyg%3D%3D)

More than 20,000 retailers nationwide have rallied together to raise funds to help the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) improve the lives of kids and adults with muscular dystrophy, ALS and related life-threatening diseases that severely weaken muscle strength and mobility by participating in the 36th annual MDA Shamrocks program — the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day fundraising program of its kind.

Thousands of retailers across the country including CITGO Petroleum Corporation Marketers nationwide, Kroger, Bojangles Fried Chicken, Shaw's Supermarkets, Albertsons, Applebee's, Burger King, Fareway, Hardee's, KFC, Kroger, Little Caesars and Price Chopper, have kicked off their Shamrocks campaigns for 2018 that will raise critical funds through the end of March.

Continue reading [here](http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/retailers-nationwide-ask-consumers-to-save-and-improve-lives-during-annual-mdashamrocks-campaign-300609120.html?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BdtXR0wwdQQ2s%2BIP9IUVkyg%3D%3D).

*Learn more about Albertsons Companies and it's Foundation's philanthropic activities in the recent Community Impact Report [here](https://3blmedia.com/sites/www.3blmedia.com/files/other/AlbertsonsCompaniesFoundation2017_ImpactReport.pdf).*



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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