Longs Drugs (CVS Hawaii)

311 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 At Hawai‘i Foodbank, our mission is to nourish our ‘ohana. Consistent access to safe and healthy food is a fundamental human right, and we have been working to make this vision a reality for nearly four decades now. Last year, we distributed food for 14.5 million meals while serving an average of 120,000 people each month. We know that food doesn’t just provide nourishment; food is a way for people to connect. It’s comfort, celebration and spending time with loved ones. This holds especially true in Hawai‘i —where food connects us to family, celebrates our island cultures and is essential to thriving communities. At the same time, we know that hunger knows no bounds. It does not discriminate based on occupation, background, race, religion, political affiliation or any other demographic factor. Accordingly, Hawai‘i Foodbank’s pledge to the community includes embracing every member of our ‘ohana by utilizing food to build connections between people, communities and families alike. We are committed to helping individuals stand up for their own dignity by providing equal access to healthy food —which, ultimately, can sustain hope for a better tomorrow. There is no shame in receiving food because everyone deserves a seat at the table. For more information, visit: www.hawaiifoodbank.org LONGS DRUGS (CVS HAWAI I ) “Our economy being impacted in such a way from the tourism aspect of things that was really shut off like a faucet during those times and we saw demand shift away from tourism goods and our tourism stores really struggled in a way versus our neighborhood stores really thrived and they thrived because we still had great value, still had convenience stores and we were still the go-to retailer,” Sutton notes. Continuing that success was difficult due to global supply chain issues that the world, including Hawaii, continue to experience, but Longs’ historical and sustained commitment to local vendors and distributors helped ease them through the trying time. Sutton says it continues to cause problems. “Our local vendors helped us in that regard. I think the supply chain continues to be a concern in a lot of ways because the products that we are relying on either from these distributors or vendors have products that they need to get from other suppliers and other vendors from the Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Hawaii suffered when tourism abruptly ended. Some of Long’s stores suffered, but many in rural communities flourished as community members flocked to Long’s for their groceries, their medications, and of course their COVID-19 immunizations.