The wine and liquor shop next to some New Jersey Wegmans stores doesn’t belong to Wegmans at all. A decades-old New Jersey licensing rule is the reason, and the Wegman family found a workaround hiding in plain sight. Many shoppers never learn that. These are the secrets Wegmans employees wish New Jerseyans knew. 1. The…
At one Walmart in Liberty County, Georgia, a dozen eggs became 30% cheaper in a year, according to NPR’s price check there. Eggs fell the most, but others fell too. The not-so-sunny side is that many other items went the other way. These are the price jumps NPR tracked at Walmart that will worry Virginians…
Food Lion’s newsroom says it has more than 1,100 stores across 10 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states. Virginia is one of them, and its checkout counters all run on the same yellow MVP card (Food Lion’s loyalty program). Almost nobody reads its rules. These are the Food Lion MVP card rules many Virginia shoppers get wrong…
You could buy a Wendy’s Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe for 99 cents until the chain revamped its value menu in January 2013. Since then, what Americans pay for a cheap Wendy’s meal has changed even more. Many Kentuckians and Americans across the country remember Wendy’s 99-cent items from 2013, but its Biggie Deals now start at…
The more familiar your Food Lion feels, the easier it is to shop on autopilot. You know your way around, grab what you need, and head home. But slowing down enough to check a few details can help you avoid an expensive or frustrating surprise. These are the precautions North Carolinians should take when shopping…
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….
Pennsylvania’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate program wants four documents: Proof of your age or disability, proof of your income, proof of property tax or rent paid, and a completed PA-1000 form. This year, the Department of Revenue pushed the Property Tax/Rent Rebate filing deadline out to December 31, 2026, nearly six months past the usual June…
This past summer, you could pay $21.95 for a lobster roll in Bangor or $46.99 in Brunswick, according to a July 2026 survey by the Bangor Daily News. That’s a gap of about $25 for two rolls with the same name. The place you choose sets the price. These are the prices Mainers paid for…
The first Schnucks opened in north St. Louis in 1939, and it wasn’t a supermarket at all but a confectionery run by Anna Donovan Schnuck. That candy counter grew into a chain of 113 stores across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, with store policies that many shoppers never think to read. The employees behind the counters…
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…
