Appendix - Food - Shipped in

Problem: Shipment of food from warehouses outside the disaster area can be delayed by lack of request to ship. Warehouses don't know

• what is needed and
• if there is anyone to receive it

• Grocery store arrangement with warehouse: standing order
• Neighborhood/Red Cross provides
  • protected location to unload
  • volunteers to help manage "open-air" market
  • City/Red Cross provide guarantee of acceptance and reimbursement
    • truck will not be sent back to warehouse with its load
    • If planned site is unusable, truck will be redirected to nearby site that will handle selling of goods
  • Problem (big): establishing price lists
  • Problem (big): alternate forms of payment