Grocery Outlet<\/a> CEO Eric Lindberg told WGB in an email this fall.<\/p>\nThe extreme value grocery retailer opened its newest location on Thursday at 1401 Allen St., the retailer said Friday.<\/p>\n
The new store brings 35 new jobs to the area and expands Grocery Outlet\u2019s footprint with its first store located at 4628 Broadway in Allentown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are so thrilled to join the Allentown community and provide another option for big savings on quality groceries,\u201d said independent store operator Fayez Abboud in a statement. \u201cThis partnership with Grocery Outlet gives me the ability to grow my business, create new jobs and more importantly, give back to the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of Grocery Outlet\u2019s community outreach, Abboud donated $1,000 to Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
Offering the same brands as traditional grocery stores but at lower prices, Grocery Outlet\u2019s buyers \u201cscour the country to find the top manufacturers with excess inventory and seasonal closeouts so Grocery Outlet can offer \u2018wow savings\u2019 on thousands of name-brand products,” the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n
During its second quarter, the Emeryville, California-based Grocery Outlet reported earnings of $20.1 million\u2014an increase of 2.3% compared to a year ago. The retailer raised its fiscal 2022 sales guidance to between $3.46 billion and $3.48 billion.<\/p>\n
The extreme-value grocery retailer operates locations in California, Idaho, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Maryland. Grocery Outlet stores are owned by independent operators based in the communities they serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grocery Outlet, the fast-growing West Coast discounter, is continuing its East Coast expansion with a second store opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-269621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}