09/01/2023

Mid-Ohio Food Collective to Undergo Significant Changes

It will close its Grove City drive-thru pantry, open massive market

Music played in the background, and the sound of grocery cart wheels rolling around could be heard as volunteers loaded carts with small jugs of milk, rolls of sausage, grapes, bananas, loaves of bread and more.

It was a typical — read: busy — day at the Mid-Ohio Food Collective's on-site drive-thru community pantry in Grove City.

Each day the pantry is open, up to 1,000 people drive through the parking lot to pick up food that volunteers place in their vehicle's trunk, making it the busiest location of the collective's entire 20-county service area, said Mike Hochron, the collective's senior vice president of communications.

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