USDA wants 28 staple varieties on every bodega shelf in Port Richmond by November

Port Richmond Avenue runs down through the North Shore of Staten Island toward the water, and the stores along it are the kind the federal government has spent two years deciding what to do about. Carnicerías. Latin markets. Corner groceries where the register sits by the door and the cooler holds what the block actually buys. Most of them take SNAP. On November 4, the rule that decides whether they can keep doing that changes underneath them.The Food and Nutrition Service published the final version on May 8. It took effect July 7. Stores have until November 4 to conform.