It was standing-room only in the waiting room of PRISM’s food shelf in Golden Valley on Monday morning, as customers awaited their turn to fill a cart with items like eggs, onions, bread and diapers.
“By the time you pay your rent everything’s gone,” said first-time visitor Marie Ray-Taylor, 78. She said costs, from the price of eggs to her rent, have gone “up, up, up … It’s too much.”…