October 6, 2024

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Big crowd at South Jersey tiny company food giveaway

Kenny's World owner Kenny Jackson said Whole Foods and Amazon have provided fresh foods including produce, dairy and fish like the salmon and tilapia he's holding outside his Haddon Heights store.

HADDON HEIGHTS — By at least a single measure, the foods giveaway Thursday at Kenny’s Planet, a lower price retail store on the Black Horse Pike, was a good results: A good deal of folks walked absent with baggage and containers bursting with refreshing deliver, packaged salmon and tilapia, loaves of bread and luggage of rolls, and bottles of soda, milk, drinking water and juice.

But considerably much more individuals showed up than co-entrepreneurs Kenny Jackson and Marc Maahs anticipated.

And the Haddon Heights police, Chief Michael Scardino claimed, were being not notified in advance when neighbors complained about a disturbance at the pike and New Jersey Avenue, they responded and had to untangle a mess of cars and trucks and pedestrians at the occupied intersection.

Jackson explained he’s hosted periodic giveaways at his retail store considering the fact that the summer season, partnering with Philabundance to get provisions from Amazon and Total Foodstuff, among the other donors, and Touch New Jersey Alliance.