N.B. news: Thrift store closing doors after eight years [Video]

La Boutique Encore has been serving the downtown Moncton community for eight years, but by the end of June, they’ll have to close their doors.

The thrift shop is located inside the Peter McKee Community Food Centre, a food bank that helps roughly 200 people a day.

The food centre is planning on building a new cold storage space where the store is currently located because the need in the community is sky-high.

Peter McKee Community Food Centre executive director Christine Taylor said they’ve maximized all of their current space.

“We don’t have the space for anymore pallets of food to come in and with more clients you need more food here. You need a larger inventory,” said Taylor.

Taylor said seniors, newcomers, international students and families who have never come before are flocking to the food bank on St. George Street.

There’s an increase in clients, but they’re going home with less food than they did two years ago.

“Because …