Boston Globe: Where empty larders find overflowing hearts
The Boston Globe - The shelves of the warehouse look much like those at a small, well-stocked grocery, but there are no prices, there is no cash register, and there are no employees. Volunteers escort the consumers down the aisle, working off a checklist as they place anything from pancake mix to toilet paper to spaghetti sauce into the shopping carts. No money changes hands, because the consumers, by and large, have no jobs. It is the Mormon church’s version of a food pantry, where many of the packaged goods and even the frozen meat carry the church’s own private label, Deseret, and the operation...
