Sobeys is investigating an apparent theft of a cartload of groceries a disabled man claims were stolen from the sidewalk in front of the company’s Windsor store Feb. 25.
Ray Church, of Windsor, says he left his groceries outside the entrance to the Smoke Shop while he went inside to buy cigarettes. He waited while one woman was served, bought his cigarettes and returned to find his cart had gone.
“That was my food for the month,” he said in a letter to the Hants Journal. “I live on a fixed income and you just stole my food... I hope you choke on it!”
He said both the clerk at the shop and the assistant manager said they couldn’t do anything about the theft. He didn’t call police because “what are they going to do?”
But Jill Thomas Myrick, spokesman for Sobeys Atlantic, said the store did offer to help Church find the groceries but he declined. She said the store would contact Church again and look through surveillace tapes to see if thieves could be identified.
“We certainly encourage people not to leave their groceries unattended,” she said and there shouldn’t be any difficulty bringing your cart into the Smoke Shop from the outside.
Church, a former paving crew worker who is unable to work due to diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, said Friday that all he had to eat at home was cereal.
But later that day he had visited the Food Bank and said had enough food at least for the weekend.
