SPOKANE, Wash. — A Hillyard grocery store is helping people impacted by the government shutdown.
Green’s Fresh Market, located at 4915 North Market, is offering a $30 in store credit to help people who aren’t getting a paycheck. The store asks that employees bring a valid ID and proof of employment.
Green's Fresh Market has been in Downtown Hillyard for almost two years.
Jack Green, the owner of Green's Fresh Market, wants people to know that he's not doing this out of charity. He wants people to be able to get items to hold them over and pay him back whenever they get a paycheck. He said this is his way of supporting a community that has always supported his small business.
"With this government shutdown, there's a lot of people living paycheck and we just wanted to say thank you to them for supporting us. We just wanted to help kinda give them a little support," Green said.
Green said his daughter actually came up with the idea. He said it's not about politics or who's right or who's wrong, the government workers didn't ask for this. He just wants to be there when his customers need him.
He doesn't know how long he will carry on with this offer. He said it will all boil down to his costs.
Green wants people to know that he does everything he can to help out locally. He also donates food to local women and children shelters, homeless shelters and soup kitchens.
The government shut has entered its fourth week. President Donald Trump said he is not backing down on his demands to fund a border wall for more than $5 billion, and Democrats said they won't negotiate on border wall funding until the government reopens.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are either off the job or working without pay.