Learn how to shop for clean, healthy foods and which ones to avoid with Nutrifreak representative Sally Meints at the Yoder's Country Market Grocery Store Tour on Sunday, Aug. 28 from 1 to 3 p.m. Tours are limited to five people. Cost is $20 and entitles participant to a Yoder's 10-p......

  When it comes to grocery shopping, scan ahead. Look beyond the snail-like lines filled with impatient customers, the cashiers with varied degrees of friendliness and the maze of aisles — and imagine a future of streamlined technological convenience. Grocery stores a......

  Stacie Ulmer of Lancaster has watched her grocery bill rise over the past year, but she's not getting anything more in her grocery cart. "The prices of a lot of my staple items are higher and I don't see them coming down," Ulmer said during a recent checkout at her local groce......

As she gripped a hand-held grocery scanner for the first time, 79-year-old Eunice Keller recalled a saying from her childhood. "My father always said, 'Nothing's hard once you know,'!\q" the Manheim woman said. And she would know quickly. Mere minutes after trying the scanner at th......

A man with a large knife robbed a Lancaster city grocery store in broad daylight Tuesday afternoon, police said. Marizzy Grocery Store, 527 W. King St., was struck shortly before 4 p.m., city police said. The robber demanded cash from the store owners, grabbed an unknown amount of......

Time or money. Those are the competing priorities that Mandy Tirado is weighing. On one hand, she loves to use Giant's Gas Extra Rewards program to cut the cost of fueling her Chevy Venture minivan. On the other hand, the Lancaster Township resident struggles to find time to......

A mini-Giant will come to Lancaster County next week.Giant Food Stores announced Wednesday that it will open the company's first free-standing convenience store in Manheim Township.Giant To Go, which will have eight gas pumps, will open Wednesday at 601 Richmond Drive near Richm......

Food Lion finally might be ready to pounce on Lancaster County. The supermarket chain apparently intends to anchor a small mall being proposed at Routes 283 and 743. The site is in Mount Joy Township, just outside Elizabethtown Borough. Fifteen years ago, Food Lion looked closely a......

The customer bought a few packs of Lance peanut butter crackers. Then, at home later, she saw the news: At least 486 people in more than 40 states have gotten sick in the growing salmonella-and-peanuts outbreak. She panicked. And then she called the store. "Can I eat them? Are......

As food prices go up, shoppers can save money at wholesale clubs — if they are savvy shoppers.Members of BJ's Wholesale Club, Centerville, and Costco Wholesale Club, Greenfield, said they save money regularly.However, they are careful about what they buy, how they prepare,......

The big barbecue starts in an hour, and you've somehow forgotten to buy hamburger buns. Come to think of it, you could probably use a few extra deck chairs and — oops — maybe even a grill. But you don't have to blow those final chaotic preparty moments running all over ......

Going grocery shopping when you're trying to eat healthy can be a little bit like panning for gold …… or like Odysseus sailing by the three sirens trying to lure him to his death with their beautiful music.… or machete-chopping your way through a thick jungl......

Folks are looking for bargains on everything these days. Even Trix cereal and Breyer's yogurt. A sagging economy is making for a busy time at local discount grocery chains such as Sharp Shopper and Amelia's Grocery Outlet, which sell close-out groceries for up to half off tradition......

Every weekend, a small army of cars and minivans comes up from the south. They descend on a warehouse-looking building out in the farmland of southern Lancaster County. They come carrying cash. And looking for bargains. And as the national economy continues its much-publicized tumble,......

It used to be that redeeming coupons was the best way for consumers to save money at the supermarket.But grocery stores such as Yoder's Country Market in New Holland and Shady Maple in East Earl are rewarding loyal customers by offering discounts on gas purchases.The stores rece......

After four months of renovations, Giant Food Stores will open in the former Redner's Warehouse Market space on Fruitville Pike on Wednesday, May 7, at 8 a.m. The extensively remodeled 49,000-square-foot Hawthorne Center store will be the eighth in Lancaster County for the Carlisle-based chain. ......

A woman walked into a local food store recently and bought a reusable bag. The checkout clerk promptly wrapped the thing in thin, crinkly plastic. It was pure reflex. We're a throwaway society. And plastic bags are cheap, light and practically indestructible, to the dismay of envi......

Brown sugar and pecan mustard, raspberry jalapeño ambrosia and gourmet artisan sea salt from Brittany in France, along with key lime marmalade, California grape leaves and champagne honey mustard — that's just the first half of one shelf at Mandros Imported Foods in Lancaster....

The supermarket produce aisle is filled with surprises these days. Consider the grapple, which looks like an apple but smells and tastes like a grape, or the pluot, a cross between a plum and an apricot that's called a "dinosaur egg." Tomatoes are yellow, potatoes are purp......

Standing in the parking lot of the Stauffers of Kissel Hill on Rohrerstown Road Friday morning, Scott Bowers of Mountville looked thoughtful when asked what he thought about the massive remodeling project unfolding all around him. Or maybe he just couldn't hear. To his right, a backhoe......

College Row finally is getting its food store. Kimberton Whole Foods will open a 5,000-square-foot location there this summer, creating 13 jobs, a spokeswoman for the small chain said Thursday. "There isn't this kind of market in Lancaster County yet," said Kimberton's Ju......

Who would think a corn dough pancake filled with meat and cheese could make a dream come true?Jose and Maria Garcia are counting on pupusas to do just that. The El Salvadoran immigrants dreamed of opening a pupuseria and a grocery store ever since they were young. They brought the idea to ......

Firefighters from East Hempfield Township and surrounding areas responded to an early-morning fire in the bakery at the Weis Markets store, 31 Rohrerstown Road. The fire was reported to be in oven.  No injuries were reported. Lancaster County Control initially dispatched about a half ......

It's always nice to see your money "go right to the people who really need it instead of (first) to some big company," said grocery man Greg Musser. And it's a way that also makes it "so easy to help," said another, Joe Darrenkamp. All you have to do is say yes ......

It's a relatively little Giant that wants to get bigger, if it can. But that might hinge on what happens to its popular next-door neighbor. The supermarket chain again is talking about enlarging its cramped Lancaster Shopping Center store, a store official confirmed Wednesday. &qu......

A bomb threat closed the Weis Markets store in Gap Monday morning, and state police are investigating whether the case is related to a rash of bomb threats around the country.Fourteen police cars from the Lancaster and Ephrata state police barracks and Quarryville and Christiana boroughs r......

Lancaster city police arrested an East Lampeter Township man Wednesday morning in connection with a one-day robbery spree earlier this year.Dustin Adam Vedder, 20, of 1665 Susan Ave., allegedly robbed two Lancaster city grocery stores and a Lancaster Township convenience store, all on Jan.......