Christopher MacDonald

Proudly Serving: Sobeys #899 Paris, ON

Position: Store Manager

Core Value: Stay Real

When a bomb threat was posted to social media, specifying a date and time a week later that it would be detonated, OPP and Sobeys Loss Prevention asked Chris to quietly continue store operations. “I didn’t tell anyone,” says Chris. “We didn’t want the employees or customers dealing with all that stress and anguish.” The day before the bomb was supposed to go off, Chris told his wife. “That was the toughest part. Sitting down with my wife and just letting her know, in case something happened.” When Chris got the call that a suspect had been arrested just hours before the specified time “I shut my office door and cried,” he says. “I’ll never forget that.” Providing for his wife and three girls is what motivates Chris. “From when I started off pushing buggies to where I am now, it was always so I could do more for them. It’s what gets me up and makes me go.”