BALTIMORE — Maj. Gene Hogg, the Salvation Army’s commander for central Maryland, organized mobile kitchens after the twin towers fell in Manhattan and the levees broke in New Orleans. After three days of prayer and fasting, Mr. Hogg had an answer. “God said I needed to open a grocery store,” he said. What Mr. Hogg , 56, knew about grocery stores he could have scribbled on the back of receipt. On a recent Friday afternoon he bounded around the aisles of DMG Foods, a bright, 7,000-square-foot, nonprofit grocery store, showing a customer with a baby how to print a coupon and encouraging another to try the freshly ground chicken.

Source: New York Times July 31, 2018 17:15 UTC