MSNBC Morning Joe September 29, 2021 12:54:00
Runs the only fresh grocery store in the ninth ward. people come in every day, they get the same things. once the pandemic started in new orleans and in so many other places, many of his customers were getting laid off. they worked in the big hotels downtown, tourists weren't coming. they lost their jobs, and these were people with very little, you know, income or they had no savings, and they suddenly did not have enough money to buy food. so peoplbegan coming in to burnell's store and asking if they could get food on credit. he began to keep a ledger, even though he himself had very thin mar...