Follow The Food: See How The Donation Process Works

Last year, Walmart pledged to donate $2 billion in food and other aid to food banks over five years, the largest donation of its kind. But the trick is getting the groceries off the shelves and into the mouths of those who need it before it spoils. Track the bread, meat and vegetables from the shelves to the food bank to the people. Click on the dots to follow the trail.

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Interactive of the journey food takes from the grocery store to local food banks.

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