Giant Eagle Slashing Prices on 3,000 Items

Some of the reductions went into effect on Wednesday.

Giant Eagle said Wednesday its delivering more than $70 million in annual customer savings by lowering prices on more than 3,000 grocery items about 15 percent, according to WPXI. The majority of lower everyday prices went in effect Wednesday, with the remaining reductions taking place by April 11. The lowered everyday prices are on a variety of national and Giant Eagle brand dairy, frozen food and processed meat products, as well as grocery items such as cereal, yogurt, condiments, pastas, boxed dinners, canned vegetables, and paper and laundry products. Some of the items include Cheerios, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Cool Whip, and more, according to KDKA. Giant Eagle customers can identify the savings with yellow “…

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Giant Eagle to End Foodperks! Program

The last day to earn the perks will be Feb. 13.

Giant Eagle's popular foodperks! program will end on May 31, but the last day to earn the perks will be much sooner—Feb. 13. The supermarket/gas station chain's fuelperks! program, however, will continue. In fact, starting on Thursday, it will be supplemented by a 3-cent discount on gasoline for Advantage Card holders on the occasions when they don't use fuelperks! Giant Eagle CEO Laura Karet said that the foodperks! program had become "a little too complex." The foodperks! program is being discontinued “based on feedback from customers,” Karet wrote in a letter sent to customers receiving the highest level of savings with foodperks! Giant Eagle began to issue letters to those customers along special offers like $10 off Rewards Cards in …

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UPDATE: Wendy's Closes in Leetsdale After Fire Ignites

The Quaker Village Shopping Center restaurant is closed temporarily to undergo maintenance.

UPDATE: Wendy's reopened on Thursday, a day after a grease fire in the kitchen.  If you're craving a Frosty or an old-fashioned hamburger, you won’t get it Wednesday night at the Wendy’s in the Quaker Village Shopping Center. The Leetsdale fast-food restaurant closed for maintenance following a grease fire that ignited shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters responded to the restaurant at 3:07 p.m. after receiving a report of a stove fire that couldn’t be extinguished. "Basically they had an accident with grease down there and the grease was ignited on their cook top," said Leetsdale Fire Chief Ernie Logan. "They were unable to put it out so we ended up helping them put it out with fire extinguishers." Logan said there was some damage…

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Dollar Tree Coming to Quaker Village Plaza, On-Site Interviews Begin Thursday

The new store is slated to open in the former location of the Quaker Village Beer Distributor.

If you're on the hunt for a new job, the Dollar Tree is looking to hire workers for the store's newest location opening in the Quaker Village Shopping Center. On-site interviews will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and from noon to 5 p.m. Friday at the Leetsdale location, according to a handmade sign in the window.  Applications can also be downloaded online and are being accepted for the Quaker Village location at the Baden Dollar Tree store in Northern Lights shopping center.  The Leetsdale site is the former location of the Quaker Village Beer Distributor, which closed in January 2011. Patch asked readers back in May what they would like to see in the space and the mix of ideas included a sit-down pizza parlor and gluten-…

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Update: Traffic Cleared in Leetsdale After Vehicle Pulls Wires Down

The incident happened on Route 65 at the Quaker Valley Shopping Center entrance, near the Edgeworth border.

Northbound traffic on Route 65 was rerouted this morning from the Quaker Village Shopping Center entrance in Leetsdale after an unknown vehicle, possibly a train, brought down live wires, borough police reported. Leetsdale police said authorities weren't sure if a tractor-trailer pulled down low-hanging wires before a Norfolk Southern train struck them. The downed wires fell across 65 and the train tracks, taking out the Subway restaurant sign at Village Drive in the process. "We can't confirm whether it was a train or a truck that knocked them down," said Leetsdale police Sgt. Dan Raible. Police redirected traffic for about 45 minutes until a Duquesne Light Co. crew could clear the wires from 65. None of the wires were sparking or arcing…

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Visions for Vacancies

Visions for Vacancies: Quaker Village Beer Distributor

Our series asks readers for ideas, thoughts and opinions on what should fill vacant storefronts in the Sewickley Patch.

The Quaker Village Beer Distributor in Leetsdale closed in January 2011 and has been empty ever since.  Customers who frequented the beer distributor, near the state Wine & Spirits store, said they were sorry to see it go. Borough officials remembered the store as one of the original stores in the Quaker Village Shopping Center dating back to the 1960s. The distributor is located in the middle of the plaza, near the post office. One of the positive's of the distributor is its accessibility from Route 65 and Beaver Street. Located in the middle of the plaza, the space is also in close proximity to salons, shops, restaurants, gasoline and, of course, the renovated Giant Eagle supermarket and pharmacy.  So tell us Patch readers. What do you …

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Larissa Dudkiewicz

3:48 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012

I like the sit down pizza place idea.   more ›

Quaker Valley, Leetsdale Property Owners Disagree on Traffic Solutions

Residents met with the board Tuesday night to review preliminary drawings and discuss other options.

A group of Leetsdale property owners seeking to resolve a high school traffic problem met again Tuesday with school board members. Quaker Valley is looking to provide parents with a separate off-street student drop-off area where three homes currently stand between the high school and Village Drive, the back entrance to the Quaker Village Shopping Center complex. Residents attended the board meeting last week looking for answers after learning about the plans and were invited back Tuesday night to view conceptual drawings. Bob Naugle of Eckles Architecture provided residents with a review of the plans, pointing out that two properties at 700 and 704 Beaver St. could be used for a bus and car drop-off and a third property at 706 Beaver St. …

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John Linko

11:03 am on Thursday, March 29, 2012

On the more practical side of things: 1. Beaver St. in front of the High School should be posted no stopping; this should be aggressively enforced. 2. The proposed parking areas, and the access to and from them, are a cause for concern. The parking area closest to Beaver St. is only accessible from the proposed parent dropoff entrance. People looking to park there who find the area full cannot …   more ›