Remember, "Build it and they will come"? The food pantry in my little town, always has a line of vehicles when they get new inventory. Most of the vehicles are bigger, fancier, and newer than mine. I believe there is a lot of, "it's free" mentality getting in those lines. Our little local market is very high priced on everything but still does a decent business. Many people in the area do their big shopping elsewhere, only using the local for the need it today items, impulse, and on-sale purchases. It's a "Catch-22" anymore. Prices too high, lose business. Prices too low, go out of business. At least we have no "grab and run" shoppers, we have too many back woods patrons that carry. The occasional shoplifter, from out of town, usually gets caught. The sheriff says our little market is second in the county for reporting/catching shoplifters, only second to the Walmart which is almost on the other end of the county some 60 miles away.

The sad part. 90% of them would be better off FASTING than actually eating the packaged poisons that they've become addicted to.

I have just cycled back to OMAD (One Meal a Day). Only meat. No food waste. Drinking only water. Gave up alcohol. (I can afford whatever I want to eat. This is what I want)...

Likely far newer than my 98 Volvo V70 with 240k miles, peeling paint, sometimes operating power door locks, missing hubcap, oil leaks, sometimes ABS malfunction that takes out the speedometer & odometer but just keeps on running great and never lets me down.

yeah, I saw this block after block after block of brand new pickups, SUV's, Vans, all of them air-conditioned, to get free food from a local church food giveaway. Every week. The local leftist rag promotes it. Burns me up. I am just getting by, but I don't go, and I know 90% of these freeloaders are well able to pay for food at the supermarket.

Another thing is, the local "big man" in my village (who has made a ton of money through sometimes unethical real estate deals (including off me) showed up with his church's "food drive", free "food " at my door, going for every house in the village. I suppose it makes him feel like a "Good Christian."

What a load of crap - it was mostly bags of chemicals with additives and artificial ingredients. "Food". I told them thanks, but I already have enough food, you can "help" some other "needy" family.