Wake Forest company helps save town's last grocery store

A company in Wake Forest has donated a generator to the store, making sure it never loses power. This little country store is the only grocery store in the town of Rich Square.
Posted 5/21/2020, 11:22:00 PM Updated 5/22/2020, 12:41:20 AM

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>>> THE TINY TOWN OF SQUARE

WITH JUST ONE SMALL GROCERY

STORE.

A LIFELINE AT A SOURCE OF

COMFORT DURING THE PANDEMIC.

LAST MONTH WAS FACE OF THE

CRISIS.

HOW A COMPANY WILL HELP WHEN

THE RAIN COMES.

>> Reporter: A BEAUTIFUL DAY AT

THE RICH SQUARE MARKET.

THE RAIN POURS OUT BACK WITH

THE MONEY-LOSING AND THE

CHICKENS ARE DRENCHED.

WITH BARBECUE SAUCE BECAUSE NO

MATTER THE WEATHER THIS STORE

OWNER WILL MAKE SURE HIS PEOPLE

ARE WELL FED.

THE STORM IN APRIL GAVE HIM

HEARTBURN.

>> IT WAS SERIOUS.

>> ALREADY LOSING SLEEP IS OF

THE CORONAVIRUS, COULD YOU KEEP

SHELVES STOCKED?

IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL, THE

STORE POWER WENT OUT BECAUSE

EIGHT HOURS.

>> I LOST MY INVENTORY.

I HAD TO DUMP HIS.

>> Reporter: THE TURKEY NEXT,

PORKCHOPS.

>> THE COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE

BEEN AT LEAST THREE OR 405

WEEKS.

>> THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.

>> NOT THIS TIME.

IT HAPPENED BEFORE WITH OTHER

STORMS.

>> IT IS HARD-WORKING.

HEARTBREAKING.

>> THIS IS A NEW DAY.

>> I DON'T HAVE A WORRY.

I MIGHT GET SOME SLEEP.

>> IT BRINGS US TO THE CHICKEN

AND RIBS ON THE GRILL.

THEY FEED MEN IN MUDDY BOOTS

WHO MADE A BIG DELIVERY TO THE

GROCERY WITH A GENERATOR

DONATED BY POWER SECURE OF WAKE

FOREST.

>> I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS

HOW THANKFUL I AM.

>> Reporter: THE CHIEF

OPERATING OFFICER CAME ACROSS A

RECENT STORY ABOUT THE RICH

SQUARE MARKET IN THE WALL

STREET JOURNAL HE WAS TROUBLED

TO READ ABOUT THE TROUBLE

HOURS.

>> TRYING TO SUPPORT THE

COMMUNITY, KEEPING HIM SAID,

YOU KNOW WHAT?

THIS IS WHAT WE DO, WE WILL FIX

THIS.

WE HAVE.

>> Reporter: WHEN MR. TO LIKE

SAYS NEVER COULD HE AFFORD THIS

ON HIS OWN.

>> I DO NOT HAVE TO CALL

ANYBODY.

I DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING.

YOU KNOW?

10 SECONDS.

WE ARE ON.

HOW AMAZING IS THAT?

>> Reporter: POWER SECURE ALSO

INSTALLED L.E.D.

LIGHTS THROUGHOUT THE STORE

WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO BE POWER

COSTS IN HALF.

IN THE RAIN MR. TIMBERLAKE HAS

SHIRTS FOR THE WORKERS, WE'RE

IN THIS TOGETHER.

THEN HE DOES WHAT HE DOES BEST,

FEEDS THE.

>> THIS COMMUNITY NOW IS NOT

GOING TO BE THE SAY.

>> Reporter: WHEN LET THE RAIN

COME, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY AT

THE RICH SQUARE MARKET.

>> THE VIRUS BROUGHT UP SUCH

GOODNESS IN PEOPLE.

>>> WORKER SPENT THE LAST TWO

WEEKS INSTALLING GENERATORS AND

WIRING, THE COMPANY MONITORS

THE GENERATOR TO DETERMINE WHAT

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