Some Small-Town Grocery Stores Finding A Way To Blossom

Louis Greenwald stood behind the counter at Bell's Market in Braddock, something he has done for nearly half a century.

He barked offers for coffee to anyone who approached the refrigerated case full of meat: "Young lady, do you want a cup of coffee?"

Tuwanna Coward of McKeesport accepted.

"Who comes to the grocery store and gets coffee?" she asked.

She said she was born and raised in Braddock and always shopped at Bell's with her mother. Although she has moved out of town, "we still come shopping here."

To read the rest of the story, please go to: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette