To follow up on a story DCist reported last month, local non-profit Bread for the City let us know that they were able to successfully pick-up 2,000 donated reusable bags from Safeway on Friday, with a promise that 10,000 more would be on their way soon.

Safeway had pledged over four months ago to donate 10,000 reusable bags, to be split between Bread for the City and Ward 7 environmental non-profit Groundwork Anacostia, but the bags still hadn’t been delivered to either group as of late April. The donation was solicited by the office of Ward 6 D.C. Council member Tommy Wells, as part of an effort to ensure that the District’s poorest residents had access to free reusable bags once the city’s 5-cent disposable bag fee went into effect in January. Other grocery and pharmacy chains, such as Giant and CVS, gave away well over 100,000 bags each to customers earlier this year.

Bread for the City spokesperson Greg Bloom also said that once the remaining 10,000 bags are delivered to his organization, he has offered to make sure Groundwork Anacostia gets its share of them. When we spoke to Groundwork Anacostia executive director Dennis Chestnut in April, he told us that despite his continuing need for bags to give away in the community, he had given up on working directly with Safeway after a number of phone calls and emails to the grocer’s corporate spokesperson went unreturned.