In many rural towns, a grocery store is a thing of the past, as more of these small businesses fold. Yet entrepreneurs and community initiatives are working to turn that trend around. Shrinking ...

Howell is president of the Evansville Art Center, just down the street, and she thinks a grocery store is a must-have for a vibrant small town main street. Brandon Borgstrom agrees. He's the ...

If you live in a small town and want your grocery store to survive, continue to shop there. If you live in a larger community but spend a lot of time in a small town and want its grocery store to ...

When Patz’s Market in Hebron closed in November 2017, the small town in southern Porter County was left without a grocery store. The family-owned store had been a staple in the community for ...

If you live in a small town and want your grocery store to survive, continue to shop there. If you live in a larger community such as Hutchinson but spend a lot of time in a small town and want ...

“We’re in between small-town pricing and big-city pricing now ... “They really don’t mark the prices up that much in a grocery store,” added ISU’s Ralston.

John Winger was facing a dilemma: He wanted to retire from running his independent, small-town grocery store, but he didn’t want to leave his local community in the lurch. Apart from his store ...

He and Jeff had a second store they'd opened in Atkinson in 1984 that they also closed last fall. "It's just not the future small-town grocery stores, sad to say," Lynn said. With foot traffic ...