Homeland has closed, consolidated, or put at least 20 Oklahoma stores up for sale since 2025, according to TheStreet and Oklahoma’s public radio station KOSU. Every surviving store kept full shelves. But some of what’s on them is easy to miss. These are the Homeland finds all too many Oklahomans walk past every week. 1….
A costume shop takes over an empty storefront on a small Ohio town square almost every September. By the middle of November, it’s gone. Small towns across Ohio run on storefronts built the same way, like a root beer drive-in that pours drinks all summer, then boards up by the first frost. These are the…
Florida hosts South Carolina in the Swamp on Saturday with a noon-hour kickoff, and the Dolphins host the Bengals at 1 p.m. Sunday. That’s two days of feeding a living room. Somebody volunteers to make the Publix run, and the fight over what to order starts before anyone gets near the deli counter. These are…
You picked a short line at Publix. Somehow, you’re still watching shoppers in the next lane leave before you. These are the Publix habits that make Floridians dread the person ahead of them. 1. Stepping Out Mid-Checkout Publix shoppers who remember a forgotten item after scanning starts sometimes step out of line to grab it….
What would you pay for an all-you-can-eat buffet in Las Vegas? The Associated Press says the first Las Vegas buffet opened about 80 years ago at $1. But now, only about a dozen buffets remain on the Strip, ranging from $80 to $175. Here’s why, and here are some of the options that remain. Counts…
The first Terlingua chili cook-off in 1967 pitted exactly two cooks against each other, and one judge burned his taste buds so badly the whole contest ended in a draw. Rules have piled up since. These are the things that get a Texan disqualified at a chili cookoff. 1. Beans in the Pot A Texas…
A gas station off a Louisiana backroad can smell like hickory smoke and boiled crawfish before a customer even reaches the pump. The diesel is almost beside the point. These are the Louisiana gas station kitchens worth driving past a restaurant for. 1. Billy’s Boudin & Cracklins Billy’s Boudin & Cracklins sits inside a working…
You stop at the Publix bakery, pick up something that looks good, and carry on with your shopping. It’s a perfectly fine routine, but the display isn’t the whole story. These are the Publix bakery requests North Carolinians often never think to make. 1. Order-Ahead Bread Publix lets a shopper request a loaf of bread…
Finding a deal at Smith’s feels good. Discovering you didn’t actually get it doesn’t. Knowing your way around the store doesn’t always mean knowing every condition behind a bargain. These are the Smith’s rules that can keep Utahns from getting the advertised price. 1. Fresh Values’ Missing Click Many of the deals on a Smith’s…
Kraft General Foods paid to own the name and the recipes when Hough Bakeries locked its doors for good in Cleveland in August 1992. By then the company was down to 32 stores pulling in $12 million a year, a fraction of the 1,000-person operation it ran at its 1973 peak. Somebody wanted those recipes….
