Festival Foods says it’s shutting off its Gas Rewards program on October 11, 2026. The points sitting in thousands of Wisconsin accounts will stop earning that same week. These are the Festival Foods policies Wisconsinites sometimes only learn about at the register. Note: This is general information, not tax or legal advice. Store policies change,…
Ohio’s food-safety code gives a festival kitchen five days at most before it has to operate like a full, year-round restaurant. Church festivals stay inside that window. Parish crews set up once a year on that five-day clock, using recipes that live nowhere but a family’s kitchen the other 360 days. These are the Ohio…
Under a 2018 Florida law, an oxycodone prescription for acute pain, the kind that follows a broken arm, can be capped at three days’ worth of medicine. Publix operates pharmacy counters in stores across Florida, but state and federal rules aren’t Publix’s to change. These are the Publix pharmacy rules Floridians often find out about…
A Stet News price check published in January 2026 priced the same 30-item cart in Palm Beach County, Florida, at the four chains that stocked every item. The gap ran $46.47, from Aldi’s $63.15 up to Publix’s $109.62. Admittedly, Publix doesn’t sell itself as a low-cost grocery like Aldi does. These are the things Floridians…
Think a bowl of gumbo tastes the same no matter which Louisiana parish it’s ladled in? Evangeline Parish gumbo runs on chicken and sausage. Cross into the bayou parishes of Terrebonne and Lafourche, and Louisiana’s coastal cooking leans on seafood instead, a pattern 64 Parishes traces back generations. These are the Louisiana dishes that change…
Ten Northeast states crown Dunkin’ over Starbucks in search interest, and Pennsylvania is one of them, according to a nationwide coffee-habits study from Innerbody Research. Starbucks still leads everywhere else. This is where Dunkin’, not Starbucks, owns Pennsylvania’s coffee scene. Behind the Coffee Rankings Innerbody Research built its study from Google Trends data on coffee-related…
More than 20,000 employees co-own the WinCo Foods where many Oregonians shop every week, according to the National Center for Employee Ownership’s national rankings. These are the things WinCo’s employee ownership changes for Oregonians. 1. Owned by Workers, Not Wall Street WinCo Foods is 100% employee owned through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). The…
“Wait, since when?” isn’t something you want to ask halfway through a grocery checkout. But at Tops—and any grocery store, for that matter—a familiar shopping routine can bump into a policy you’ve never heard. These are the Tops Markets policies some New Yorkers learn about at the register. 1. Four-Coupon Ceiling Tops Markets caps how…
You pull off I-35 in West, Texas, point at a tray of sausage-stuffed rolls, and ask for two kolaches. The clerk reaches for a different tray instead. Texas lawmakers named West the state’s Czech heritage capital back in 1997, and the bakeries inside that town are still understandably proud of it. These are the Texas…
Your King Soopers Rewards card might be doing less for you than it could. The same goes for a few other services you may already pass during a regular shopping trip. For Coloradans over 60, getting the most out of the store sometimes starts with a simple question. These are the King Soopers perks shoppers…
