PHOTOS & VIDEO: Mo’adim L’simcha began their bi-annual food distribution operation this afternoon at the Blue Claws Stadium. The organization – coordinated by the directors of Tomchei Shabbos – supplies thousands of families in need of large quantities of Yom Tov necessities at below retail prices.
The event took place in the parking lot of the Blue Claws Stadium.
Chaveirim and other volunteers were on hand to assist the massive operation flows smoothly.
Off-duty police officers were also hired to direct traffic. TLS.
amazing!
Very impressed! and this year the check out was done amazingly well. Tizku limitzvas.
what about all the stores that r owed money all year and nead the yomtove shopping and now cant do any busyness because what is sold hear is more then what is needed for yomtove and people that bye for other family mammbers
Not shayich, is it still open tomorrow?
I am curious… can someone post some examples of prices so I can compare it to store prices?
How does one go about getting from this organization, i’m not qualified for tomchai shabbos but i can definitely use some extra help
Tell your friend the store owner to ‘take it on faith’ and lower his Pesach markup to his normal year around markup – he’ll be paid back twice over.
Of course, I doubt you’ll find a store owner willing to make that wager, so maodim l’simcha is necessary and store owners will still sit on the sidelines and complain…
wow!! MI KEAMCHA YISROEL!! by the umos haolam they have no hasoggah of what the chessed Klall yisroel does to help each other.
Ah!! es is git tzu zein ah yid!!
Dear friend of store owner, have u lost your mind. We shouldn’t help HUNDREDS and Thousands of people because two or three store owners may loose! Lots of sense there……….
amazing work, im always amazed by rabbi yakovyitzchok trainers dedication and perseverance. keep up the great work.
Huh?What does one have to do with the next?!? 1:People should be paying up their bills. 2:There’s nothing wrong with making Pesach more affordable…
As nice as this is, it is also disgusting because people owe so much to the stores that are opened all year. The stores wait for yom tov time when it should get busy and can make some money and now this is taken away from them.
Rabosai, Before you go buy at this place PAY UP at your local store.
NO store takes advantage of the pesach shopping by raising there prices. There markup is the same as all year round.
The competition does not allow a store to mark up, they have to be competitive.
To Anonymous says: you don’t look at the ads in all the peppers if you check the prices and compare it is very close in price get your facts first the right your comment the stores give away the cases and if you relay care why don’t you check out the NY prices it is even cheaper then Mo’adim L’simcha ? why
To number 9 yeas you can help but the system can be ran much better ill bet you if you ask the store owners to give gift cards at a major discout to be sold at a discount price also what they r giveng out is not just for yom tov what person neads 5 cases of cups and 5 cases 9×13 for pasech and soon ? dont say its to help familes for yom tov its for all year so just do it one weak in the middle of the winter not right wen people start shoping and hurt a bunch of stores and its not just a few store owner remeber each store has a number of lakewood people working for him he also has to pay the same tuition bills as you soif you realy want to help why don’t you do it right
The stores in lakewood have not stepped up to the plate to help lower prices . look at the Kollel stores (boro park) full page ad in hamodia and youll see what real sales look like. Other than toimchei shabboss or food stamps this is the only real retail help there is for the heimishe products . The stores didnt want to do it so the great need was met by these choshuva askanim
Mi K’Amcha Yisroel!!
Is this open to the public? How do you qualify?
As amazing as this program is, there is still a valid point when it comes to local store owners I believe. This is not just helping for Yom Tov. Since when does a family need CASES of tuna for Yom Tov? Or meat to last until next Chanukah? Of course its an amazing chesed but it may be a bit unfair at times. This particular distribution is open to just about everyone. Tough call.
Not true the prices in lakewood wear the same as Mo’adim L’simcha the krm in bp was even cheaper then Mo’adim L’simcha because in ny the vendors go to the stores every day and Thay give it to them for very cheap and sell in lakewood and all places out of Brooklyn Thay charge a lot more if u even look at prices in willey you won’t see such cheap pricing It’s just in bp if u realy care call up the kosher company’s and ask why do Thay charge us more money
For me shopping in one of the three NPGS stores in Lakewood works for me – and you can post date the checks for up to a month and that sure helps and so thats the way I get by all year round – no less before Pesach.
Why do stores HAVE to mark up basic food items for Pessach the regular 30%. I am not talking about Kosher l’ Pessah noodles. Why is Hand Matzoh, sugar, oil, potato starch, all basic items, have another 30%, tacked on?? Take your mark up on non necessary items and this sale wouldn’t be needed in the first place.
Dear number 10, Yossi schreiber does NOT get paid nor does any of the many many volunteers and you are thanking the only guy who DOES get paid????? this is a very nice thing but what about the tens and tens of hard working people like myself who do WORK but cant cover our bills and many tuitions and dont know how in the world we will be able to buy food ???
18- chaim. It could be the distributors charge more out of bp/flatbush BUT THAT MUCH MORE!!??? a can of potato starch in flatbush is 1.19 and here it is 2.89 same brand. just a small example but they are not charging them an extra 1.70 for each can.
a few years back the KRM wanted to open a branch in lakewood and there was major protests from the other stores. WHY do you think so????
i work all day and we don’t have enough. i think if someone can open a store with lower prices it would be greatly appreciated by everyone and would force the other stores to lower their prices and they would do better overall.
to number 22 what you don’t no what you your saying it is not true i am in the bushiness and the stores relay try hard to put out good saving they do not raise the markup for pasecha if this was the case don’t you think after five years of losing money on pasech they who’d lower the prices.and yes if you call up the vendors and ask why is their such a diffidence in prices in ny and lakewood they will tell you the the ny stores r loosing money and you no that is not true they r getting it much cheaper and to number 25 their was one store that stopped him from coming not all stores
There is a desperate need for a store like KRM but those that are afraid of it are very powerful and will do much as they can to stop it. You must work with what you have . Stock up at the moadim lisimcha . There are farmers markets who have very cheap quality produce .I started buying empire chicken in shop rite when it goes on sale because you cant get chicken legs in lkwd for less than $ 2.44 lb. Moadim Lisimcha is a message to retailers that the free market will not be stopped even in lakewood
Stores in Lakewood are very competitive. Mark-ups for Yom-Tov are sometimes lower than the rest of the year. Don’t look at the prices of a few select items prices of Boro Park Stores. They are usually loss-leaders. I would also love to know if Moadim B’Simcha acepts credit cards and how they deal with bounced checks.
I am seeing quite clearly that most of the “chachomim” posting here have no clue about the business of retail stores. When you read the full page ad in Hamodia for KRM with those too good to be true prices and then say that that is the standard, they have gotten from you exactly what the ad was meant to do! There are things called Loss Leaders. You advertise them and LOSE money on them to get people into the store to by EVERYTHING ELSE too. To do that you need to do the volume of a KRM. Lakewood has a fraction of the amount of people living here. It can not be done here ESPECIALLY now where Yom Tov volume is down drastically in the local stores due to Moadim Lesimcha. It’s a catch 22 but it is exactly what is happening. Everyone just wants everyone else to give. Everyone just wants everything for nothing. There are laws of economics too. When a vendor goes and undercuts the entire market on an item it does NOT show that the item should be sold that cheap. It shows that in this race to the bottom that we have here in Lakewood, the vendors, suppliers, employees etc of the one undercutting will NOT be getting paid! That is how one company severely undercuts fair market price. It happens here all the time. And then after a couple of years and of course dinei Torah those tzaddikim news to close their businesses and leave everyone else holding the bag. So, no, an honest store can not go ahead and give things away. When ONE vendor is suddenly undercutting everyone else ,think twice about what they ate doing dishonestly to all others. Chag Kasher Vesameach!
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Was wondering why my explanation and comment sent in earlier were not posted? It had lots of good points actually…
to #7,I work in a grocery store & put the prices in the computer & I would like to let you know that they use the same mark up as all year! The owners are not happy with being a gemach all year & they raise money for tomchai shabbos all year & then when they are trying to make money on yom tov because of the volume,moadim lsimcha give to anybody without verifying if they really need it !They have a tanah!!! Nobody from tomchai shabbos is responding to their tanah !!!
Instead of moadim giving out food, and the oilam paying for it. (either through donations or buying it wholesale) Let them give out gas cards so the Oilam can afford to get around. Then everyone can take their money and spend it in a jewish grocery store which creates 100s jobs! (If you dont support your local stores stores dont ask why so many people need tomchei shobbos and hand outs your cutting out your own need for jobs. The Chofetz Chaims wife had a store you think he didnt have a mark up. The chofetz Chaim sold his seforim you think he didnt have a mark up. Let a yid earn some money and stop under cutting them and killing the lakewood job market. Just realize your free food just cost another yid his job. Enjoy your seder!
A) Does anyone here think that without the Moadim programs the stores would feel the same pressure to put items on sale? Of course, nobody likes “competition”…
B) The Lakewood market is over $100M per annum. The stores should focus their attention on expanding that market share, not on this program that maybe does about $2M annually.
C) The program only offers a limited number of products, for everything else people still have to shop elsewhere
D) Finally; i hope its clear to the stores that if they are fighting anybody – its their own customers! The program doesnt make any money off this at all, so in the end the only beneficiary is the consumer…
Personally I think that the organization should raise funds and give out things for free or gift cards to the local stores. Undercutting businesses that have to stay in business all year round is just plain wrong. This chesed program may have gone a bit overboard. They are now just a massive store undercutting fair market price.
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to # 29,you point out very good points,I have heard in the name of rabbi cohen ,famous dayan in choshon mishpat of washington heights,that is not so simple to sell things below costs just to get customers because you are hurting other stores by it,I would like to know what is the halachah on this.
Ein Habor Mismaleh M’chuliyaso. (You cannot replenish a pit via the hole that is leaking). Chesed programs are important. However, there have to be criteria in place for eligibility. The person who saved money on groceries so he can now splurge onexpensive jewelry or designer clothing is not a candidate for public assistance.