Dear Customers, I remember years as a boy, when the weather was so beautiful for Easter week that the sun shone brightly in blue skies, the bulbs previously long dormant in the cold ground were all abloom and everywhere you could virtually smell Spring in the air.  That being said, I can also remember Easter…

Dear Customers, With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Sunday this year, sales of corned beef – both rounds and flats – were better than usual.  I guess it could be attributed to people having the day off and having more time to putter around the kitchen.  Most years, when the holiday falls mid-week, the…

Dear Customers, There’s something about the first week of March that I find comfortingly hopeful!  Sure, it’s still rainy, snowy, icy, gray and cold some days, but there exists the possibility of the complete opposite occurring.  You get it all in March!  But at least the ultra-cold temperatures are behind us and perennial bulbs have…

Dear Customers, Many years ago, one of the member stores at the now defunct Olean Wholesale, got the innovative idea of staging a “Beef Bonanza”.  Originally, beef was the only animal featured, but regardless, it was a huge success.  So much so that the idea began traveling around to all the member stores as a…