{"id":312586,"date":"2026-10-23T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312586\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:20:11","slug":"turn-your-pennies-into-candy-this-weekend-at-grandpa-joes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312586\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn your pennies into candy this weekend at Grandpa Joe&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grandpa Joe\u2019s Candy Shop wants your pennies and, in exchange, they\u2019ll give you candy!<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh-based candy shop, with two dozen locations and more in development across the country is collecting your pennies this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at its Strip District location.<\/p>\n<p>Called \u201cThe Great Grandpa Joe\u2019s Penny Exchange\u201d the shop says if you can fill up one of their boxes with pennies (about $5 worth of pennies) you will get two \u201cWorld Famous\u201d $5 Candy Buffets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClean out the car cupholder, raid the junk drawer, empty that penny jar from 2008\u2026 if you can fill our box with pennies, we\u2019ll swap it for candy,\u201d Grandpa Joe\u2019s said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa\u2019s Joe\u2019s Strip District location is located at 2124 Penn Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>For event details, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/4653799601509826\/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A%5B%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D%5D%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grandpa Joe\u2019s Candy Shop wants your pennies and, in exchange, they\u2019ll give you candy! The Pittsburgh-based candy shop,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5410,127748,13902,127749,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-312586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-candy","tag-grandpa-joe-s","tag-pennies","tag-penny-exchange","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312586","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=312586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}