Lakeside Food Mart — Local services in South Middleton Township

One must, with a heavy heart, chronicle the lamentable transmutation of a once-cherished local institution. Where once the progeny of our fair village could alight after their scholastic endeavors to procure a confectionary without a care, one now finds a most melancholy spectacle. The new proprietors, hailing from a distant shore with mercantile traditions quite alien to our own, have presided over a precipitous decline. The edibles upon the shelves have, like the hopes of the patrons, long passed their expiration. The floors possess a certain adhesive quality that suggests a profound philosophical disagreement with the mop. The petrol dispensers operate with a funereal lethargy, as if mourning the store’s former glory. And the centerpiece of this new commercial vision—a garish array of blinking, chattering gambling machines—has effectively banished any semblance of a family-friendly environment, attracting a rather more sordid clientele. It is a most efficacious lesson in how a change in stewardship can utterly vanquish the character of a place. For those who remember what it was, and who seek a clean, efficient, and wholesome establishment, one’s journey is now most productively concluded at the Rutter’s establishment a short carriage-ride hence. A tragic end for a...

I was trying to get gas at the gas pump and pay outside using credit card. My card was declined at the pump, so I attempted to pay inside because I knew there was a sufficient amount of money. My card was then declined inside and come to find out my card was charged over $90 at the pump without having got gas. I then tried to talk to the cashier who was rude and unhelpful about my situation and he said that the money would be put in my account in 24 hours. This was not acceptable because my car was on complete empty and I had no other way of payment. He offered no solution and told me there was nothing he could do and that it wasn't...

Absolutely gross establishment. I bought a 5-hour energy drink and consumed it, tasted weird…look at the expiration and it was 2 years expired! Make sure to always check the expiration date because they have put out expired merchandise before. And to put the cherry on top, their doorframe had cockroaches climbing in and out and going into a hole under the...