{"id":58725,"date":"2020-03-18T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58725"},"modified":"2020-03-18T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T11:43:28","slug":"this-convenience-store-owner-in-scotland-has-given-away-over-6000-worth-of-goods-to-seniors-preparing-for-quarantines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/03\/18\/this-convenience-store-owner-in-scotland-has-given-away-over-6000-worth-of-goods-to-seniors-preparing-for-quarantines\/","title":{"rendered":"This convenience store owner in Scotland has given away over $6,000 worth of goods to seniors preparing for quarantines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>34-year-old Zahid Iqbal owns the Day-Today convenience store in Drylaw, Edinburgh. The compassionate man has been giving away FREE &#8216;Coronavirus kits&#8217; comprising of toilet paper, antibacterial handwash, tissues, and anti-inflammatories to seniors who are preparing to get quarantined due to the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Customers over the age of 65 and those with mobility issues facing self-isolation can either pick up the free goods at the convenience store or have the \u201ccoronavirus kits\u201d delivered to their house for free by calling the shop.<\/p>\n<p>Iqbal has already given away more than 1,000 kits, and he says he hopes it \u201csets a good example\u201d for other consumers and businesses as shop shelves have been left bare from panic-buying. Since each pack costs around \u00a35 to make, Iqbal said the initiative has already cost his business a whopping \u00a35,000 ($6,100) not including the cost of fuel for home deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/store-gives-away-6000-dollars-in-free-goods-to-quarantined-seniors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/store-gives-away-6000-dollars-in-free-goods-to-quarantined-seniors\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>34-year-old Zahid Iqbal owns the Day-Today convenience store in Drylaw, Edinburgh. The compassionate man has been giving away FREE &#8216;Coronavirus kits&#8217; comprising of toilet paper, antibacterial handwash, tissues, and anti-inflammatories to seniors who are preparing to get quarantined due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Customers over the age of 65 and those with mobility issues facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}