Yellowknife (Mar 23/05) - Wal-Mart is going bananas and it wants Yellowknife to join in.

But think food when you get asked to help out at the checkout counter.

For each dollar customers contribute to the Go Bananas campaign during March, they buy a banana tag and the good feeling they are helping provide breakfast for school children across the territories.

Darren MacNeil, assistant manager of Wal-Mart in Yellowknife, said the Breakfast for Learning - Canadian Living Foundation program has raised about $2,500 for breakfast programs.

"It goes to support breakfast and snack programs in the NWT," he said.

According to the NWT School Nutrition Council, there are 15 programs that receive money from Breakfast for Learning, four of which are in Yellowknife.

MacNeil said 340 NWT children get breakfast at school each day and 937 receive a snack.

For an added bit of fun, MacNeil said he promised his staff if they helped raise $5,000, his working attire for a day would be a dress.

The money raised will be distributed by the company's head office who will distribute it to Breakfast for Learning.