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900 cars in line for food (Original Post) Ohiogal Mar 2020 OP
Somehow they need to use mall parking lots jimfields33 Mar 2020 #1
Seeing a problem here. Jirel Mar 2020 #2

jimfields33

(15,943 posts)
1. Somehow they need to use mall parking lots
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:57 AM
Mar 2020

So people can park and turn off their cars for many reasons. It would give workers more room to get the food to people as well.

Jirel

(2,024 posts)
2. Seeing a problem here.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 11:56 AM
Mar 2020

No staples in the grocery stores. Yet this religious group stockpiled enough for 900. 18,000 pounds of food that were not in local stores for people to buy.

While some of the folks receiving food were undoubtedly unable to afford what they got due to sudden job loss or other issues, not that they were lined up in cars. Cars. Not people taking mass transit or living homeless. They were there, in part, because they could not get food at the store due to panic buying and...

A religious group doing a power play to distribute food in an unnecessary shortage that their own purchases helped create.

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