Box Top thefts plague Valley grocers

FRESNO - Box Tops for Education is one of the most widespread fundraisers in American schools, but now it's leading to a major problem for some Central Valley grocery stores.

The small white and pink coupons have valley parents and kids seeing green. Each box top coupon is worth just ten cents, but kids collect them and schools mass tens of thousands of them to earn checks from General Mills to buy things like computers, backpacks and other school supplies.

General Mills offers 240 different products in its box tops program. They include everything from snacks, desserts, sandwich bags, tissue and of course the most popular -- cereal. Buying these items and clipping the coupons seems easy enough but some kids in the Valley have taken the fundraiser to a whole new level by stealing the box tops.

"We noticed we had several boxes of the general mills box tops. just the little coupons torn off," said Alice Yamamoto, owner of U Save Market in Parlier near Fresno.

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See. This is what happens when Republicon Family Cesspool Values pollute young souls.

the repub way of financing schools.

Jay Ward is laughing hysterically someplace ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Top_Robbery

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