Grocery Store

Nate Weiner used to do most of his grocery shopping at the Wegmans in Hunt Valley and the Giant near his Hampden home. Now he orders most of his groceries online from Relay Foods and picks it up at designated spot on Sundays. "I get most of my produce from them," said Weiner, 26, a mechanical engineer and part-time student. "The local stuff is picked that morning. They're some of the best vegetables I've ever had. " While the aspect of fresh and local food is an attraction, the real selling point for him is convenience.

Editor: Congratulations to Marshall Adams who painted Main Street in Bel Air on the Harford County Sheriff's Office headquarters. I had the opportunity to observe the painting. It is to perfection. My late husband Curtis Kroh and I were in business on Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, known as "Kroh's Market" for 19 years. We moved in 1951 to Bond Street. We had a grocery store and a gift shop. In 1958, High's Ice Cream Co. came to Bel Air and that is where we became "Kroh's Nursery" until 1973.

A fire was reported at the popular Wegmans grocery store in Abingdon late Sunday evening, causing a brief evacuation of the store by employees and customers. No injuries were reported, and the store re-opened shortly after the fire was contained, a Wegmans spokesperson said. The store also was open at its normal time on Monday, at 6 a.m. The fire in the first block of Wegmans Boulevard, was reported between 6:45 and 7 p.m. Sunday, when firefighters responded for reports of smoke coming from the computer room, according to the Harford County Volunteer Fire and EMS Association Facebook page.

A fire was reported at the popular Wegmans grocery store in Abingdon late Sunday evening, causing a brief evacuation of the store by employees and customers. No injuries were reported, and the store re-opened shortly after the fire was contained, a Wegmans spokesperson said. The store also was open at its normal time on Monday, at 6 a.m. The fire in the first block of Wegmans Boulevard, was reported between 6:45 and 7 p.m. Sunday, when firefighters responded for reports of smoke coming from the computer room, according to the Harford County Volunteer Fire and EMS Association Facebook page.

One Baltimore politician has declared war on dirty grocery stores, dirty restaurants, dirty hotels -- all dirt, really. Call it a one-woman (for now) crusade for cleanliness. Del. Jill P. Carter is calling it her consumer revolt. "How is it that a 'fresh market' has a filthy floor? Or 'whole foods' has an unkempt buffet? Or those rarely washed credit card machines?" Carter said on Twitter Wednesday. "The general public, paying consumers, must demand higher standards of cleanliness & quality..stop spending Ritz-C $ on Motel6 accommodations.

Susan Heisler, a retired grocery store merchandiser and recreational pool player, died of lung cancer March 3 at the Chesapeake Hospice's Mandrin Center in Harwood. The Glen Burnie resident was 55. Born in Baltimore and raised on Bush Street, she was the daughter of Roger Heisler, who served in the Navy, and Nira Blank, a Koppers Co. and Maryland Glass employee. The family moved to Anne Arundel County and she was a 1965 graduate of Northeast High School, where she ran track. She was a bartender at Dino's in Glen Burnie on Ritchie Highway.

Contract negotiations between management and the union representing workers at Giant Food and Safeway are expected to continue Tuesday, said a union spokeswoman, who added that no progress had been reported so far. The contract between the grocery chains and the union, which represents 23,000 employees in the Baltimore-Washington region, expires March 31. On Monday, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 400 in Landover said five...

The developer of a vacant lot in Charles Village owned by the Johns Hopkins University has decided not to build a grocery store there. The university supports the decision about the site, at the corner of St. Paul and E. 33rd streets, said a statement released Wednesday by Armada Hoffler, the lead developer of the 1.1-acre site. The other firms involved are Beatty Development Group LLC and Skye Hospitality LLC. The development group, 3200StPaul, has met with residents of Charles Village and the surrounding communities in recent weeks to solicit their thoughts on how the land should be used.

I read with interest and amazement the article on children nagging their parents for junk food in the supermarket ("Combating the 'nag factor,' Sept. 8). The entire situation is a foreign concept to me. Professor Dina Borzekowski observed that "every mom has a story about the tantrum in the cereal aisle. " I don't, and I certainly don't have children who are overly angelic. Far from it. I have a 3-year-old and 6-year-old who are pretty typical kids with the exception of one thing - they watch very little TV. Maybe one hour a week, sometimes less.

Services for Benjamin Gumnit, who operated a grocery store in East Baltimore for 35 years, will be held at noon today at Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral home, 6010 Reisterstown Road.Mr. Gumnit, 85, died Friday at Baltimore County General Hospital.He had Alzheimer's disease and had lived for the past 1 1/2 years at the Milford Manor Nursing Home.Born in eastern Europe near the border of Russia and Poland, Mr. Gumnit was 5 years old when he came to the United States with his mother and four sisters.

I strongly resent the comments made by Del. Donald H. Dwyer in regard to his arrest for operating a boat while intoxicated ("Dwyer gets 30 days in jail in boating incident," May 15). He sounds like the 5-year-old who gets caught taking a candy bar from a grocery store and uses the excuse that "everybody does it. " He recently made the statement that he made a mistake and that "who out there hasn't made a mistake and who out there hasn't been drinking on a boat out on the bay. " As a boater of many years, I can tell him - not me. As my mother would have said to me, "Just because everybody else jumps off the roof, would you?"

Nate Weiner used to do most of his grocery shopping at the Wegmans in Hunt Valley and the Giant near his Hampden home. Now he orders most of his groceries online from Relay Foods and picks it up at designated spot on Sundays. "I get most of my produce from them," said Weiner, 26, a mechanical engineer and part-time student. "The local stuff is picked that morning. They're some of the best vegetables I've ever had. " While the aspect of fresh and local food is an attraction, the real selling point for him is convenience.

Klein's Family Markets will start construction Tuesday on a long-awaited supermarket in Howard Park in northwest Baltimore. A 10 a.m. groundbreaking will mark the start of work on a full-service, 68,000-square-foot ShopRite of Howard Park at 4601 Liberty Heights Avenue. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and other city officials are expected to attend. The neighborhood has been without a grocery store since 1999 when Super Pride closed. The Sun's Steve Kilar reported last month that Rite Aid of Maryland Inc., which held a legal restriction on part of the six-acre development site, had agreed to allow construction to move forward.

The developer of a vacant lot in Charles Village owned by the Johns Hopkins University has decided not to build a grocery store there. The university supports the decision about the site, at the corner of St. Paul and E. 33rd streets, said a statement released Wednesday by Armada Hoffler, the lead developer of the 1.1-acre site. The other firms involved are Beatty Development Group LLC and Skye Hospitality LLC. The development group, 3200StPaul, has met with residents of Charles Village and the surrounding communities in recent weeks to solicit their thoughts on how the land should be used.

Rite Aid agreed Thursday to allow construction of a ShopRite supermarket in West Baltimore's Howard Park neighborhood to move forward. The move appears to eliminate the final impediment to the long-awaited grocery store. A groundbreaking has been scheduled for May 7 and construction should be complete within 10 months, said Howard S. Klein, general counsel of Klein's ShopRite of Maryland. "We have been working on this project since I was a member of the City Council representing this district," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said.

If I had to vote on which food store I would like to see at the Rotunda, I would vote for Graul's Market. My reason is simple: Graul's is a full-service market. Retirement communities and apartment buildings, all inhabited by senior citizens, surround the Rotunda. St. Mary's Roland View Towers is a two-building complex near the intersection of Roland Avenue and 40th Street. Roland Park Place and Keswick Multi-Care are right across from the Rotunda on 40th Street. Many who live and work in those complexes depended on the Giant for groceries until it moved down the hill.

Anne A. Rabinowitz, longtime owner of a Northwest Baltimore grocery store who later sold women's apparel, died of heart failure Sunday at a Cleveland hospice. The former Pikesville resident was 88. She was born Anne Attman in Russia, the youngest of 10 children. She immigrated to Baltimore in 1921 after being sponsored by brother Harry Attman, founder of the well-known East Lombard Street delicatessen. Raised on East Lombard Street, Mrs. Rabinowitz was a 1934 graduate of Eastern High School.

A 55,000-square-foot Safeway opens today in the newly renovated Harper's Choice Village Center, which has gone more than two years without a grocery store.The store, which is the company's largest in Howard County, includes a pharmacy, full-service deli, bakery, seafood counter and flower shop.It opens amid concerns among merchants and others for safety at the center after a weekend incident in which two Safeway employees were robbed at gunpoint outside the store.About 11: 30 p.m. Saturday, Howard County police said, the workers were walking toward the store on Harper's Farm Road when they were accosted and robbed of their cash, police said.

Susan Heisler, a retired grocery store merchandiser and recreational pool player, died of lung cancer March 3 at the Chesapeake Hospice's Mandrin Center in Harwood. The Glen Burnie resident was 55. Born in Baltimore and raised on Bush Street, she was the daughter of Roger Heisler, who served in the Navy, and Nira Blank, a Koppers Co. and Maryland Glass employee. The family moved to Anne Arundel County and she was a 1965 graduate of Northeast High School, where she ran track. She was a bartender at Dino's in Glen Burnie on Ritchie Highway.

I was so excited to see the article about the Harris Teeter proposal to come to Towson. My family would be very happy to see them here. We moved to Towson a year and a half ago from Charlotte, N.C. We were regular shoppers at Harris Teeter, as it is such a great grocery store - it's clean, has healthy choices and great customer service, including free cookies for the kids while shopping. After we arrived here we were very disappointed in the grocery store choices, the closest grocery store to us is too small and not clean.