How a grocery store fight fractured a Maryland town along racial lines
A woman by the name of Mary Mac snapped a picture of some Rap Snacks cheese puffs,
whose best-by date was Nov. 30, 2023
— or more than two months before she purchased the bag.
Mac didn’t say anything sensational about the grocery store or Patel in her post.
She simply wrote: “Good ol foodrite.”
Her comment echoed the general resignation that many in Snow Hill had come to feel about the Food Rite,
an independent grocery store that,
like others of its kind,
faces mounting financial pressures to serve rural communities.
Over the years, grumbling about the supermarket had become as common as the loblolly pines in the forests of the lower Eastern Shore where Snow Hill was established in the late 17th century.
If folks weren’t accusing Patel of selling #expired snacks, #sour milk or #discolored meat,
they were lamenting the sagging infrastructure of the Food Rite itself, a building that’s nearly seven decades old.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/21/maryland-snow-hill-food-rite-racial-division/