My daily routine includes learning in kollel before noon and running my small grocery store in the afternoon. In general, this works excellently, and b’siyata diShmaya, I succeed in learning well in the mornings and keeping up with my job in the grocery in the afternoons.
On the days when there was a lack of milk in the entire country, my grocery too was lacking milk. People came and asked if there was milk. They worried about what would be and asked when it could come. I inquired what I should do in such a situation, and one grocer told me, “I go to a supermarket in the nearby neighborhood, buy a large number of milk bags, and sell them at no profit. The main thing is that I have milk to give my customers.”
Several other owners of groceries gave me the same advice: If you want to hold on to your customers, get them milk. Bring milk, and they’ll continue coming, and
