{"id":13500,"date":"2021-09-15T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13500"},"modified":"2021-09-09T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T04:40:24","slug":"cafe-218-is-gone-dollar-general-coming-to-dysart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/cafe-218-is-gone-dollar-general-coming-to-dysart\/","title":{"rendered":"Cafe 218 is gone; Dollar General coming to Dysart?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old Cafe 218 in Vinton opened shortly after the US 218 bypass of Vinton did. For about a decade, it was vacant. As of the week before Labor Day, it’s gone. Stories: Vinton News<\/a>, Vinton Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The land is going to be used for a relocated Dollar General store, the above sources say. Vinton has one, but this will be a bigger area.<\/p>\n

In June, city boards in Dysart<\/a> cleared the way for a Dollar General to be built there, on IA 21 north of Casey’s, reported the North Tama Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Supermarket News<\/em>, an industry publication, reported in March DG\u00a0wants to open 1,050 new stores this year<\/a>, after 1,000 in 2020 and 975 in 2019. CNN in May cited a study<\/a> that says nearly 1 in 3 store openings announced for this year nationwide is a DG, and 45% a DG, Dollar Tree, or Family Dollar.<\/p>\n

Dollar General was called a contributor to the closure of the local grocery store in Manson <\/a>and called a threat to the one in Kingsley<\/a>\u00a0by those stores’ owners. Just last month, Story City’s last grocery store shut down, and the owners cited Dollar General there<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The old Cafe 218 in Vinton opened shortly after the US 218 bypass of Vinton did. For about a decade, it was vacant. As of the week before Labor Day, it’s gone. Stories: Vinton News, Vinton Today. The land is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13510,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions\/13510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}