Frequently Asked Questions  What is Anderson's Country Market? We are a discount grocery store in Madison Heights, Virginia, located on the South Amherst Highway (Hwy. 29 Business) between Wal-Mart and Sheetz. Because much of our grocery stock is discounted, we sell it at a price that regular grocery stores cannot match. Little accidents with the outside package can mean BIG savings on your grocery bill. If it's canned, boxed, or bagged, we'll probably have it. Cereal, coffee, vegetables, tuna, chocolate, mints, cookies, rice, sugar, flour, and spices fill our shelves. We don't sell any alcohol or tobacco related products. For your convenience, we also have refrigerated coolers filled with fresh organic milk, free-range organic eggs, Amish-rolled butter, cheese and meats (slice to order), and cold soft drinks with the best prices around. Very soon, we hope to bring to you discounted frozen foods. This will include frozen meats, dinners, vegetables, desserts, etc. I don't see the items I bought last week. Will you have them again? We wish we knew the answer to that one! Our groceries arrive packed in boxes, wrapped and stacked on pallets. We don't know what's in the boxes until we unpack them. It's like a big surprise package! There are some items we get on a regular basis, and we will almost always have in stock (i.e., green beans, Hamburger Helper, BBQ sauce, pasta, etc.). Items that are unusual or somewhat exotic we may see only once or only occasionally (i.e., specialty salad dressings, high-end sauces, On The Border Salsa, etc.). The best bet if you find something you really like is to stock up on it while we have it in stock. The prices are low, so it's affordable to get more than just enough for the week ahead. Why are the prices so low? Because they need to be. $4.50 for a box of cereal is just too much when minimum wage is just barely over that amount. We think $1.50 to $2.00 sounds a lot better, and that philosophy is carried out throughout the store. Spices that cost $5 at the big stores are probably around $1.50 at Anderson's. $7 coffee is $4.00, and so on. Because we buy huge quantities of grocery items each month, we're able to get high quality, name brand foods and sell them for a whole lot less. Everybody benefits from this. You save over half on your grocery bill, we get to make a living, and everybody's happy. We are a family-run business and we hope to maintain low prices by having low overhead. Our goal is to restore service and quality to the grocery industry. Where do your groceries come from? Accidents happen, even in the grocery business. If a case of green beans gets dropped, and a couple of cans get bent, those cans (and sometimes the whole case) don't make it to the grocery store shelves. Instead, they are sold to stores, like ours, where we salvage usable products and pass the savings on to you. Sometimes undamaged grocery items become discounted because their "use by" date was getting close, or because the item just didn't sell well in that area. Jalapenos sell well in Texas, maybe not so well in Wisconsin. Sometimes the reason the item becomes discounted is seasonal. For instance, lots of Christmas stuff shows up in January. We all know that chocolate chip cookies taste just as good with Christmas-color candies in January, as they did in December. What does it mean when a product is "out of date"? It means just about nothing. While perishable groceries (milk, for example) have expiration dates that matter, the "best use by" dates on non-perishable groceries are mostly measures for making sure grocers rotate their stock efficiently. A bottle of Italian dressing is just as good a month after it's "best use by" date as it was a month before it's "best use by" date. As long as the seal is intact or the vacuum is good, the product is still fine. We have checked with the FDA's website and we abide by their rules of not selling baby food and formula to you, once it has been outdated. We discard the products that are no longer usable. Can you tell me something about the Amish/Mennonite-style bulk foods? Certainly! The Amish/Mennonite-style bulk food is a specialized line of foods that are often hard to "come by". We make it easy for you to find these items, as well as offering a huge line of goodies and old-fashioned candies. These foods are brought to you from a distributor from the Lancaster, PA area. We also offer, to you, a line of Amish meats and cheeses. Many of these are made by the Amish in OH, PA and Wisconsin. But there's more!... There are jams and jellies, preserves, pickles and more. Just come on in, and take a look around! We noticed the Bible verses around the perimeter of the store. What part does religion play in your business? Well, let's just put it this way. Because of Jesus, our lives have been changed. His gift to us, is life. How we live our lives is our gift to Him. Our goal is to show His love to all those that we come into contact with. When we have something this good, it just causes us to want to share it with others. What methods of payment do you accept? We accept Visa, MasterCard, EBT (Food Stamps), Personal Checks (good ones, of course ☺ ), and Cash.