Shop 'n Save Offers 20-Cent Pump Perks

The promotion comes at the same time as Giant Eagle's.

One day after Giant Eagle announced a 20-cent fuelperks! promotion, Shop 'n Save contacted Patch to tell us about the stores' 20-cent pump perks happening during the same time duration. Shop 'n Save shoppers will receive 20 cents off per gallon of gas for every $50 they spend on groceries from May 16 through May 29. The limited time promotion aims to double customers’ savings at the pump in advance of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. According to TripAdvisor’s 2013 Summer Travel Survey, one out every three people will drive between 100 and 200 miles to reach their destination this Memorial Day weekend. "This is the time when people are gearing up for long trips and when gas prices tend to rise as well,” said Bill Lipsky, …

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Upper St. Clair Man Arraigned on Homicide Charges

Brandon Thomas is accused of shooting and killing another man in a grocery store parking lot.

An Upper St. Clair man was formally arraigned last week on homicide charges, according to The Almanac. Brandon Thomas is charged with shooting and killing Vaughn Simonelli, of Washington, PA, in the parking lot of the Washington Shop 'N Save in October 2012. Thomas' attorney has claimed that there was a road rage incident before the confrontation and that his client used self defense. The Almanac reports that the district attorney is not seeking the death penalty against Thomas. Thomas remains in the Washington County Jail.

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Upper St. Clair Father Charged With Criminal Homicide Held for Trial

The prosecution also added a possession of drug paraphernalia charge against Brandon Thomas.

Upper St. Clair Father Charged With Criminal Homicide Held for Trial

The prosecution also added a possession of drug paraphernalia charge against Brandon Thomas.

An Upper St. Clair father of three was held for trial Wednesday on criminal homicide and possession of drug paraphernalia charges. Brandon Thomas, 30, is accused of fatally shooting Vaughn Simonelli, 55, of Chartiers Township, in the Shop 'n Save parking lot in the City of Washington on Oct. 18 after an apparent road rage incident. Prosecution added the possession of drug paraphernalia charge to the case on Wednesday. Washington County Assistant District Attorney Mike Lucas said that when Thomas was being searched at the Washington County Jail, several empty heroin stamp bags fell from his socks. There was no illegal substance detected in the bags. Two witnesses in the parking lot at the time of the shooting testified seeing the men …

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Brandon Ralston

12:12 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013

The guy he killed was a violent criminal who'd already been shot once because he assaulted someone, and he had multiple restraining orders on him. You really think there's not a chance his luck just ran out.   more ›

Upper St. Clair Man Charged With Fatally Shooting Man in Grocery Store Parking Lot

Online records show that Brandon Daniel Thomas was arraigned early Friday and remanded to the Washington County Jail.

City of Washington Police charged an Upper St. Clair man with a single count of homicide stemming from the shooting death Thursday of a 55-year-old Washington man in a grocery store parking lot. The Observer-Reporter newspaper indicated that Brandon Daniel Thomas, 30, is accused of fatally shooting Vaughn A. Simonelli. Online court records show that Thomas was arraigned at 4 a.m. Friday before district Judge Mark Wilson and remanded to the Washington County Jail after being denied bail, according to online court records. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Thomas on Oct. 24, online court records show. "The victim was involved in altercation with another male that led to gunfire in the parking lot of Shop n’ Save," Washington …

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Spend Enough Money, Get a Free Turkey at Local Grocer

If you spend $350 on groceries in five weeks, a customer will be eligible to receive a turkey at no cost.

SHOP ‘n SAVE customers who use their Perks Card to purchase $350 or more in groceries between Oct. 4 and Nov. 7 will receive a free turkey. By spending $350 during the five-week period, customers who use their Perks Card will be eligible to receive a free Honeysuckle, Grade-A Frozen Turkey of up to 14 pounds. If a customer spends a total of $499 during the five-week period, they are eligible to receive a free turkey up to 22 pounds. “SHOP ‘n SAVE owners are proud to make their homes in the communities they serve,” said Bill Lipsky, director of merchandising for SUPERVALU, which supplies the independently owned and operated SHOP ‘n SAVE stores. “Our annual free turkey promotion is a great way for our local owners to reward their customers …

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Local Stores Affected by National Turkey Recall

Giant Eagle and Shop 'n Save have pulled products and alerted customers due to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 70 people, including four in Allegheny County.

Grocery retailers in western Pennsylvania are among those pulling Cargill ground turkey products from their shelves and reaching out to customers to prevent more outbreaks of illnesses linked to salmonella. Cargill Value Added Meats Retail, a division of Cargill Meats Solutions Corp., on Wednesday voluntarily recalled approximately 36 million pounds of fresh and frozen ground turkey produced at the company’s Springdale, ARK, facility between Feb. 20 and Tuesday, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. The packaged turkey produced by the Wayzata, MN-based meat company has been linked to a salmonella outbreak in 26 states that has been blamed for at least 76 illnesses and one death. Most of the …

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