NCFST Mobile Market
- Dates: 7/10/2025, 7/24/2025, 8/14/2025, 8/28/2025, 9/11/2025, 9/25/2025, 10/9/2025, 10/23/2025, 11/13/2025, 11/27/2025, 12/11/2025
- Presenting Organization: The Northern Community Food Security Team
- Venue: Across from the Northern Regional Center
- Location: Wake Forest
- Address: 350 East Holding Ave, Wake Forest, NC 27587
- Times: 2nd & 4th Thur. 3pm-5pm
- Admission: pay-what-you-can scale.
About
The Northern Community Food Security Team (NCFST) is partnering with Ripe for Revival to offer a mobile grocery store on the second and fourth Thursday of each month from 3-5 p.m. across from the Northern Regional Center, 350 E. Holding Ave.
How it Works
Ripe for Revival utilizes its network of farmer and food industry relationships to narrow the gap between farm excess and food access.
The organization partners with local farmers to bring their extra produce to communities that need access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
The company purchases “retired” city or school buses, renovates them to include refrigerators and freezers, and transforms them into Mobile Markets that can drive into communities impacted by food insecurity.
Pay What You Can
Open to everyone, the pay-what-you-can Mobile Market aims to make fresh and local produce, proteins, dairy, eggs, and other food products accessible and affordable to all, regardless of their budget.
The Mobile Market posts ‘suggested’ prices on all items on the bus. Once the shopper has gathered the food they want, they will ring up at the register and receive a ‘suggested price.’ If the shopper can afford to pay the full amount they may, if they cannot, they can choose to ‘pay what they can.’
When shopping, there are some limits on the amount of protein, dairy and eggs a consumer can purchase, but no limits on produce.
At checkout, shoppers will be given a suggested total. Shoppers can then pay the full amount, a portion of that amount, or nothing at all.
Both cash and card payments are accepted, along with Android/Apple Pay.