{"id":16227,"date":"2026-03-16T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16227"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:25:04","slug":"dysart-grocery-store-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/dysart-grocery-store-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dysart grocery store closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having its financial situation profiled in the media, Bobby&#8217;s Grocery and BBQ in Dysart couldn&#8217;t find a way forward. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northtamatelegraph.com\/news\/local-news\/2026\/03\/06\/bobbys-grocery-bbq-set-to-shutter\/\">The <em>North Tama Telegraph<\/em> reported<\/a> earlier this month that the store is closing.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to problems with equipment that took out inventory, partially due to storm-induced blackouts, the main culprit is the Dollar General store that opened five years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having its financial situation profiled in the media, Bobby&#8217;s Grocery and BBQ in Dysart couldn&#8217;t find a way forward. The North Tama Telegraph reported earlier this month that the store is closing. In addition to problems with equipment that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/dysart-grocery-store-closing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16227","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=16227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16228,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16227\/revisions\/16228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}