It looks like your neighborhood supermarket.

It feels like one, down to the shopping carts.

And that's the point.

“It sends a signal that Brother Benno’s cares,” said Paul McNamara, Brother Benno’s executive director.

The Indoor Market is new 1,400-square-foot food distribution center. It celebrated its grand opening Wednesday. The food is free, and the market only serves homeless and working-poor customers.

McNamara said the market offers a dignified shopping experience to the people it serves.

“As you might be aware of, the homeless and working poor often are not as welcomed in certain institutions as you might think," he said. "And so we wanted to kind of give them this feeling of you're walking into a supermarket.”

One of the customers Wednesday was Brian Cecil, who said he's be

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