Riesbeck's Food Markets Begins Missing Children Program
On Grocery Bags

St. Clairsville, Ohio - Leo Braido, Riesbeck's Director of Sales, gave his okay to begin participation in the "Missing Children Program," joining other retailers nationwide. They will now have pictures of missing children on the backs of their carryout bags.

You will see those little faces looking at you on backs of the different Riesbeck's Food Markets brands. Along with the photo is a short narrative giving details of where the child was last seen, who may have taken the child and where the child might have gone.

Their bag supplier, Advance Polybag, Inc (API), administers the program in cooperation with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) based in Alexandria, VA. The individual cases featured will be of children either missing from or believed to be in the local area. New cases will be highlighted on the bags every two months.

This grocery bag program has been in existence for many years, beginning in 1998, and dozens of recoveries have occurred, several as a result of the grocery bag program.

The retailer who was the first partner in this program now has a total of seventeen plaques hanging in his office, each one representing a child that had been featured on their grocery bags and subsequently recovered.