CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Jim McVeigh’s role in the grocery store he has operated for more than 25 years hearkens back to the days when neighborhood grocers knew their customers by name. Many of those customers stopped by to wish McVeigh a happy retirement on the final day of Save-A-Lot, 1625 J St. SW, on […]
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End of an era as another grocery store c...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Dating back more than 100 years, the corner of J Street and 16th Avenue SW in Cedar Rapids has been home to a grocery store. The Dlask Bros. Grocery & Market, in existence around the turn of the 20th Century, gave way to others, including Me Too, SunMart and Save-A-Lot, reconfigured […]
Fresh pita bread, baklava, chicken shawa...
By Cindy Hadish/for the Corridor Business Journal CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Plans to open a Mediterranean grocery store in California shifted when Mohamed Mahmoud’s cousin invited him to take a look at Cedar Rapids. That invitation led to the opening of Vytyl – a derivation of “vital,” as it’s pronounced – at 365 Edgewood Rd. […]