US Shutdown Hurts Low-Income Shoppers, Food Lion Owner Says

American consumers struggling to access food aid payments due to the government shutdown can’t fill their grocery baskets and it’s “painful,” according to the company behind the Stop & Shop and Food Lion grocery stores.

The US government needs to find a resolution to the longest government shutdown on record soon “because it’s painful for the communities that the nutritional support is not there anymore,” Frans Muller, chief executive officer of Ahold Delhaize, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV.