Fenton is now home to the first Cash Saver store in the metro area.
The name has changed, but the employee’s are still the same at Cash Saver, the grocery store at the intersection of New Sugar Creek Road and Hwy 30. Originally built in 1980 as a National, the store had briefly been a Schnucks, then a “new” National and most recently, Food for Less. Dave O’Neal, a veteran of the grocery store business, ran the store from 1999 to 2011. He retired briefly, but came back to head up the store with its new concept. The store is still independently owned and not part of a chain. The Cash Saver name comes from a model presented by Associated Wholesale Grocers, the co-op food distributor that supplies over 19,000 independent grocers around the country. Cash Saver has a different way of doing business, one that O’…
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Local farmers’ market vendors say that the fruits and veggies they grow are superior to grocery store produce for many reasons.
Do you buy the freshest produce possible? According to many area farmers, the fruits and vegetables you buy at the grocery store may not be as fresh as you think. With farmers' markets open now (or about to open) around the St. Louis area, including Wentzville, Lake Saint Louis, Webster Groves, Kirkwood, Clayton, Ellisville, Wildwood, Arnold and elsewhere, we wanted to talk a little about what "fresh" means to you. Tim Hess, owner of Silent Oaks farm and a vendor at several area farmers’ markets, told Patch that most of the produce sold in local grocery stores comes from Calfornia or Florida, areas where many farms are staffed by migrant workers. “It’s a long trail and at the end of the trail you’ll find that migrant Mexican workers do …
lynn
7:38 pm on Friday, May 10, 2013
Lynn Fenton :Was a true Food For Less fan for years .I love the change and Cost Saver is amazing we shop there for meat and stock up great prices . more ›