date:Sep 29, 2013
A hunger-relief agency's pledge to build America's first nonprofit supermarket was greeted skeptically at first. However, Philabundance may be confounding local doubters. Its Fare Square grocery store, seven years in the making, is ready to open its doors Saturday morning, a rare oasis in what has been called a food desert.
Usually in the business of distributing donated food to pantries in the Delaware Valley, Philabundance, a nonprofit, has augmented its mission and become a store owner,