Local customers at an Atlanta grocery store were treated to a Thanksgiving surprise when a group of entrepreneurs paid for thousands of dollars of groceries.
“We literally took up every register at the grocery store and family after family would go through,” Jason Lobdell, one of the benefactors, told WXIA. “We took over all 12 aisles for two hours.”
Lobdell said that he and his friends spent around $40,000 at a Kroger in Decatur, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
“As Black entrepreneurs, we got to give back to our communities,” Brad Giles said, another benefactor involved, on his Instagram account.
According to WXIA, one customer said while on her way out, “We have Thanksgiving food and we got tissue. God is good today, thank you.”
The act of giving comes as the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to drive up food insecurity across the United States.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, millions are still jobless. Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization, said more than 54 million people in the country could soon face food insecurity, — that is 17 million more than before the coronavirus outbreak.