Bare shelves at Alberta food banks as demand soar: ‘Very difficult year’

Where pallets of food and supplies should be stacked high instead sit row after row of empty warehouse shelves.

Food banks across Alberta are sounding the alarm as some of their inventories reach dangerously low levels, making the organizations increasingly anxious as the holiday season approaches.

“This is the first time that we’ve encountered this level of scarcity within our warehouse,” said Darryl Burry, executive director of Food Banks Alberta.

The shelves at Food Banks Alberta are typically stocked with pallets upon pallets of donated products, piling all the way up to the roof of the warehouse. But right now, those same aisles are…

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