December 13, 2010

901 Coats and Counting

What do 901 coats look like? I don't know. Alpine Shop's goal has never been to have one big pile of coats to give away at the end. We've wanted to get the coats donated by our incredible customers into the hands of those who needed warmth as quickly as possible - especially as temps dropped down into the single digits today. [caption id="attachment_546" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Thanks to Alpine Shop customers, we've collected over 900 coats over the past three weeks. Our goal of 1000 coats for area folks in need is well within reach. "]Coats donated to the Alpine Shop as part of the One Warm Coat Drive in 2010[/caption] What the picture to the right shows is about half the coats we've had donated since our One Warm Coat promotion started on November 20. Most of these were donated in the past week. And donate you have, folks. We had so many coats come in last week that they are, in fact, taking over our Kirkwood store's conference room. That's a wonderful problem to have, let me tell you. Most of the coats in this picture will hopefully be wrapped snuggly around someone before the week is out. As it stands, we're just 99 coats away from reaching our goal of 1000 now. With the drive ending this Sunday, December 19, we're asking everyone to please continue to donate. As we have from the first day, we'll give you a coupon for 20% off any one coat, jacket or clothing item for each and every coat you donate (no limit!). And after Sunday, if we're over 1000 coats (which it looks like we will be), we'll give away a total of four $250 gift cards to Alpine Shop. You get an entry for each and every coat you donate. Just make sure you fill out the paperwork when you drop your items off! Thank you again, St. Louis and Columbia. We've got just one week left. Let's see how many coats we can collect in just seven days!

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