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Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina (www.cbc.ca)
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Imagine walking into a store, picking out all your groceries for the week and not having to worry about facing an expensive bill at the checkout.

For clients of the Regina Food Bank, that will soon be a reality.

Since the pandemic, there has been a spike in food bank users across the country, up 25 per cent in Regina alone. One in eight families β€” and one in four children β€” are now food insecure in the city. Of the 16,000 monthly clients, 44 per cent are kids.

The new Regina Food Bank Community Food Hub, modelled after a traditional grocery store, is set to open this summer in the former government liquor store location downtown.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

I wonder if letting people pick their own items really reduces waste more than the hamper system? What happens to items left on the shelf that no one takes? That's probably the same stuff that would be ignored from a hamper? I'm admittedly pretty ignorant of food banks generally, but I would think that the hamper system would be trying to encourage people to eat whatever they get, to both reduce waste by making sure all items get out there from the bank, and to ensure there's enough of everything coming in to go around evenly? I can see this maybe resulting in the better items going first, and a bunch of less desirable items always being left behind to rot. Does that tend to happen in this type of system or not?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Here's the thing conservatives generally can't get through their thick skulls... if you respect most people they'll respect you and take a modest amount - those folks that will hoard are generally not worth policing more than the minimum amount... it's cheaper to just account for their greed than hire security personnel.

I don't give a damn if some people are taking advantage. I'd rather a small proportion of people exploit the system than folks who need it be denied.

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