Photo: Getty Images
Interns at a grocery store chain create a world record-breaking packaged food word display and then donate all the products to charity. A group of 24 interns and a handful of employees from Michigan-based grocery store chain SpartanNash worked together to set a Guinness World Record. They spelled out “SPARTANNASH” in 16-foot high letters using over 5,791 packaged food containers.
The huge word laid out in the parking lot of the company’s Grand Rapids headquarters ended up being 150-feet long. It was made up of canned corn, green beans, fruit cocktail, boxed potatoes, brownies, cereal, and pasta, all of which was donated to local nonprofit Buist Community Assistance Center, to benefit families in need. A representative from Guinness World Records was on-hand to verify the record, which beat the previous record of a food word using 1,111 items set in 2018.
The idea was the brainchild of SpartanNash vice president Andy Clausen. "This was an incredible opportunity for the SpartanNash interns to get experience coordinating on a big goal as a team," he says. "We planned this to allow for our interns to have something that sets them apart—not many people have a Guinness World Records title on their resume."
Source: Guinness World Records