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Outdoor garden centers popping up at Lidl stores in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
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Lidl stores in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York will offer a little something new this spring: outdoor garden centers.
Ever since the boring, broken-supply chain days of the pandemic, there’s been a gardening boom in the United States. Starting in 2022, German-owned discount grocer Lidl has been looking to get in on the game.
The chain, which boasts 170 stores along the East Coast, piloted an outdoor garden store in New York’s Long Island beginning two years ago, in partnership with a century-old local grower named Gabrielsen Farms.
This year, Lidl expanded this concept with outdoor garden stores in select locations, spanning 76 stores across the eastern seaboard.
As of Wednesday, April 24, a number of Lidl stores in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will boast outdoor pop-up garden centers in their parking lots. This will include both of Lidl’s stores in Delaware, in Dover at 150 Dupont Highway and in Middletown at 359 Auto Park Drive. (It will not, however, include the forthcoming Bear store, which has yet to set an opening date.) The Lidl garden centers will remain open until May 28 and will feature a variety of flowers, plants, soil, hanging baskets, planters and other gardening accessories, according to company spokespeople.
“We are excited to bring the Lidl Garden Center concept to even more customers this year. At Lidl, we are relentlessly focused on quality and freshness at low prices and our Garden Centers are no exception,” said Tammy Roberts, Lidl’s purchasing director, in a statement.
More details, including products for sale, are viewable at lidl.com/garden-center.
Which Lidl stores will include a garden center in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware?
Delaware
New Jersey
- Bellville
- Glassboro
- Park Ridge
- Union
- Vineland
New York
- Commack
- Deer Park
- East Meadow
- East Patchogue
- East Rockaway
- Farmingdale
- Garden City Park
- Islip
- Massapequa
- Merrick
- Plainview
- Riverhead
- Selden
- Syosset
- West Babylon
Pennsylvania
- Easton
- Folsom
- Philadelphia
- Port Richmond
- Reading
- Trooper
- York
PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate remained steady at 4.2% for March, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) announced in its preliminary report Friday.
According to L&I, the rate in Pennsylvania was one-tenth of a percentage point below the country’s unemployment rate, which fell to 4.3% compared to February.
The civilian labor force, consisting of residents working or looking for work, increased by 6,000 to 6,593,000, and employment increased by 9,000 while unemployment decreased by 3,000 from February.
Nonfarm jobs also rose in March, to 6,189,600, while jobs in six industry supersectors increased. Trade, transportation, and utilities were up 5,100 during March.
For more information about L&I, visit its website here.
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Pennsylvania saw a record low number of traffic deaths in 2025, according to PennDOT.
The department said 1,047 people were killed in traffic crashes last year, which is 80 fewer than last year and the lowest since record keeping began in 1928.
“Even one life lost is one too many, so while this decrease is good news, Pennsylvania remains committed to moving toward zero deaths on our roadways,” said PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll. “PennDOT will continue to do our part to decrease fatalities through education and outreach, but we will only reach zero when we all work together.”
PennDOT said there were 109,515 total reportable crashes, which was the second lowest on record only to 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic kept drivers off the road. Of those total crashes, 979 were fatal, down from 1,060 last year.
The number of people killed in impaired driver crashes dropped from 342 to 258 last year, which was also the lowest on record. Fatalities in lane departure crashes and fatalities when someone wasn’t wearing a seatbelt declined as well. PennDOT attributes the decrease in deaths to infrastructure improvements and initiatives like enforcement and education campaigns.
Deaths involving a distracted driver were up from 49 to 54, but PennDOT says the long-term trend is decreasing, and a law that went into effect last June makes it illegal to use hand-held devices while driving, even while stopped because of traffic or a red light.
“Please drive safely,” Carroll said. “Put the phone down when you are behind the wheel. Always follow the speed limit and never drive impaired. And buckle up! Your seat belt can save your life in a crash.”
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