The lapse in SNAP benefits is affecting Bay Area stores where recipients would do their shopping. One store owner said he was not only worried for the well-being of his shoppers but for his business as well.

Lucky Breimah knows just about everyone in this North Richmond neighborhood. His store, Rancho Market, has been a fixture, a small grocery store and deli in an area that's otherwise a food desert, referring to a neighborhood without many other grocery stores nearby.

"I know everybody here. Twenty years, I watched them growing up," said Breimah.

That's why it was so hard when he wasn't seeing the families and seniors who came in using their CalFresh benefits.

"I was really worried about them, and the first three days it was really troubling, like how are they going to survive?" he s

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