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When the coronavirus pandemic swept the U.S. last spring, Community Foods Market in Oakland, California, turned to free delivery to encourage seniors to shop online.
“Even though we were doing kind of everything to keep our store clean and sanitized daily and limit traffic coming into the store, I just was not that comfortable with the idea of encouraging seniors to come out at what was the peak of the first [COVID-19] surge,” said Brahm Ahmadi, CEO and president of the store.
The store sits just a few blocks from two large senior living facilities and serves a senior population that has a high percentage of low-income people and households without cars, Ahmadi said.
Bay Briefing: They got the COVID vaccine. Then they got COVID
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Arlene Moon, 95, left, Vanessa Bain, center, and David Bain, 81, stand in their driveway in Menlo Park, CA on January 28, 2021.Nina Riggio / Special to The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Thursday, April 15, and you’re not imagining it, grocery store prices are still higher than they were last year. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
A different kind of breakthrough
By the end of March, Vanessa Bain’s entire multigenerational household had at least one dose of the vaccine.
And then her husband tested positive. Within days so did her grandfather and great-grandmother, along with Bain and her teenage daughter.