SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 From shrimp to haddock to lobster, the seafood demands this year at Schiff’s Marketplace in Scranton have been overwhelming.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crowd has been tremendous this year. We\u2019ve definitely seen an uptick in a lot of customers coming through. We\u2019re actually out of a few items today because of the tremendous swelling of customers,” said sales director, Eric Martinelli, <\/p>\n
Martinelli says they\u2019ve gone through more than a thousand pounds of haddock alone and keeping the seafood cases stocked hasn\u2019t been easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrying to source the seafood was one big challenge we had, trying to get the best quality products for the best possible price for these customers,” said Martinelli.<\/p>\n
Behind the counter, workers say the pace has been nonstop.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was either Monday or Tuesday, we sold about forty thousand dollars’ worth of seafood. So that\u2019s a lot of people. It\u2019s hard to just keep up on stock and everything up in there,” said seafood stand worker, Colin Rafferty.<\/p>\n
But for many customers, the holiday rush is part of a tradition that brings them back year after year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prices keep me coming back. The prices are awesome. You have awesome food, and they\u2019re willing to help you. They are very good people here, that\u2019s why we come here all the time,” said Randell Lutz of Archbald.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a tradition built on family favorites, fresh seafood, and familiar faces, even on the busiest day of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re definitely seeing our regulars that come through every year. I have one customer that comes in every year for 10 pounds of squid tubes and 2 pounds of tentacles. I see him every year,” said Martinelli.<\/p>\n
Schiff\u2019s outdoor seafood stand will be closed Christmas Day and Friday, reopening Saturday through New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 From shrimp to haddock to lobster, the seafood demands this year at Schiff’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-69733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69733","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=69733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}