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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 09 > Cheap food, the Amish way

Cheap food, the Amish way

More shoppers seeking out the scratch-and-dent grocery discounts

By Meghan Barr / The Bulletin
May 9, 2008

MESOPOTAMIA, Ohio — In a quiet, gas-lit farmhouse, two girls in bonnets and long blue dresses wind tape around expired bottles of Newman’s Own salad dressing, and wipe dust off dented cans of vegetables and crumpled boxes of Butterfinger candy bars.

They are picking through....

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