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TOPS is teaming up with the local organization “Uniting and Healing Through Hope” and “First Student” to host the ‘Stuff the Bus’ Thanksgiving Food Drive. The drive, aimed at ensuring local families can enjoy a holiday meal, will run from October 20 to November 17, 2024. Organizers emphasize that any donation, big or small, can […]
The new partnership between ‘Field and Fork Network’ and Tops Friendly Markets in Rochester, N.Y. aims to stretch the value of SNAP benefits through the expanded ‘Double Up Food’ initiative. This program matches every dollar spent on fresh produce with an additional dollar, up to $20, effectively doubling the purchasing power for SNAP users. For […]
The Buffalo mass shooter that killed 10 black people at a Tops supermarket 2 years ago is back in court on federal charges and could face the death penalty. The suspect Payton Gendron, is already serving a New York State life sentence for the May 14th shooting back in 2022. Buffalo mass shooter will appear […]
The only grocery store on Buffalo’s Eastside will reopen on Friday following the mass shooting at the Tops on Jefferson Avenue. On the 2 month anniversary of the racially motivated attack that killed 10 beautiful souls, Tops President John Persons was joined by several elected officials and the victims families to announce the reopening of […]
Yesterday, a federal grand jury has indicted the man who murdered 10 Black people at the Jefferson Ave Tops in Buffalo, NY. A 27-count indictment charges Payton Gendron, 19, of Conklin, Broome County, with 14 hate crimes and 13 firearms offenses, following the May 14 shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo. U.S. Attorney […]
Yesterday afternoon, the man who was behind the racially motivated mass shooting at the Tops on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, Payton Gendron faced Judge Susan Egan for a scheduled pre-trial conference in Erie County. The white supremacist killed 10 Black people at the Tops supermarket while live-streaming the shooting and pleaded not guilty to 25 […]
After a grocery store shooting that killed ten people earlier this month in Buffalo. The Buffalo Bills is now handling funeral expenses for the family of one victim. Buffalo Bills special teams player Taiwan Jones was told by members of a Buffalo non-profit that there was a family that couldn’t afford the funeral expenses for someone […]
After the tragic event that took place in Buffalo, Buffalo leaders are working to get the Jefferson Avenue Tops operational again. According to Mayor Byron Brown, the evidence collection phase of the investigation has concluded and now the goal is to reopen the store. Tops Friendly Markets President John Persons stated: “It will take some […]
Any employee who was working inside the Tops supermarket in Buffalo when the mass shooting occurred now has access to grief counselors provided by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local One union. Frank DeRiso, president of UFCW Local One, stated: “You hear some of the stories of what these people witnessed and what they […]
In a local Tops on a Saturday afternoon, a predominantly Black community in Buffalo faced a horrific racially motivated mass shooting. The shooter has been identified as 18-year-old Payton Gendron of Conklin in Broome County, near Binghamton. Discoveries of the shooter circulated on social media shortly after, and it was then found a hate-filled, 180-page […]
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