{"id":95307,"date":"2026-01-24T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95307\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:56:10","slug":"area-grocery-and-hardware-stores-see-big-rush-ahead-of-impending-snowstorm-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95307\/","title":{"rendered":"Area grocery and hardware stores see big rush ahead of impending snowstorm | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; Some in Berks County are starting to take the impending storm more seriously. People are hitting stores like Reifsnyder&#8217;s Ag Center and Boyer&#8217;s Market in Jefferson Township to get ready for the snow expected this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way everyone&#8217;s reacting, it looks like they&#8217;re preparing for the worst. It seems like it might be bad. I don&#8217;t know, we&#8217;ll see how it goes. Everyone&#8217;s acting like it&#8217;s gonna be pretty bad though,&#8221; said AJ Reifsnyder at Reifsnyder&#8217;s Ag Center.<\/p>\n<p>The winter storm necessities, like food, snow shovels and rock salt, are being purchased as the anticipation of what&#8217;s to come mounts. One woman we spoke to tried to remember the last big snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a couple years. It&#8217;s been quite a few years, like, I was little,&#8221; said Alaina Nolt of Bernville.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t gotten a storm like this since 2003 or something like that. Since we got the last big one,&#8221; said Jay Eckenroth. &#8220;I stock up on the salt. I have a diesel tractor, so I make sure that&#8217;s all filled up and gas for the snowblowers that I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And so the preparation continues as people pay attention to the forecast and make sure they have what they need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I stock up on my wood pellets, make sure I have plenty of that. And my generator. If I do lose electric, I&#8217;ll have the generator for back up,&#8221; Eckenroth added. &#8220;Were not one to run out and get milk and bread like a lot of people do. We always have that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; Some in Berks County are starting to take the impending storm more seriously. People&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1724,37429,1283,128,130,129,46888],"class_list":["post-95307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-grocery-store","tag-hardware-store","tag-jefferson-township","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reifsnyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95307","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=95307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}