Community market emerges in East Oakland to families struggling to keep food on tables
KTVU s Rob Roth reports.
OAKLAND, Calif. - The new Shiloh Mercy House Community Market in Oakland may look like many other grocery stores, but there is one enormous difference the food is free. Things have been kind of tough. They ve been here to help support and feed my loved ones and myself. It s really been a big help, said neighbor Pat Lancaster.
The market serves as a food pantry for those people having trouble affording food.
In the past, people would come and volunteers would hand them grocery bags filled with food someone else picked out. But at the new market people can ask for what they want.