Osakis welcomes new grocery store
May 16, 2013 in Alexandria Echo Press
There’s been a whole lot of buzz and excitement and now it’s official Osakis Family Foods opened for business on May 16.
Heath and Cindy Peterson recently bought the former grocery store in Osakis. Continue Reading
The Osakis community will once again be served by a local grocery store.
The banana could be considered a minor miracle of global trade. Every day of the year, even in winter, a shopper in Grand Forks can purchase fruit grown in the tropics and shipped thousands of miles to be sold during short period before it turns black, at a price, as of last month, of 58 cents per pound.
Leevers Foods is buying Wally’s Supermarket in Devils Lake. Leevers, which originated in Devils Lake and already owns Leevers County Market in the city, is buying the community’s only other supermarket from Nash Finch Co., which had purchased Wally’s late last year.
Kraft Foods Inc. said today that it plans to split into two publicly traded companies, with one concentrating on its snack business like Oreo cookies and Trident gum while the other focuses on the North American grocery business, which includes Kraft cheese and Maxwell House coffee.
With Oslo, Minn., surrounded by floodwaters, Kosmatka’s grocery – the only one on the flood-created “island” — requires an unusual delivery. Join a delivery of dairy products to Oslo this past week, captured on video.
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