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3rd December
2008
written by MAV

By Eric Heyl
TRIBUNE-REVIEW

If you hurry, you might be able to find some cleanser there, or perhaps a pack of chewing gum.

But the produce is gone, the deli case is empty and don’t even try to locate a quart of milk. Barren shelves provide the unmistakable evidence: Foodlane is going out of business.

After 60 years as a mainstay on Munhall’s Main Street, the small, independently owned grocery will close forever at the end of the day Saturday.

It certainly isn’t a moment that general manager Mark Andrews, who has worked at the store for 22 years, anticipates as anything less than difficult.

[ Full story available at: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/heyl/s_601225.html ]

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