Grocery Outlet to open store this week in Chambersburg

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Grocery Outlet, a West Coast-based bargain-outlet grocery chain, will open the doors to its new Chambersburg store on Lincoln Way East on Thursday at 9 a.m. at the former Amelia’s Grocery Outlet.

A grand-opening event will be held Saturday, which will include games and a chance to win $600 worth of groceries.

A donation of $1,000 worth of food also will be made to NETwork Ministries, a local urban-youth ministry program based in the borough, co-owner Jason Lyman said.

The new location, part of 20 new stores that were part of an acquisition of Amelia’s Grocery Outlet, represents an eastward expansion by the chain, which currently has 220 locations on the West Coast, according to Brooke Joller of Zenzi Communications.

Each location typically is owned by a husband-and-wife team, such as Jason and Victoria Lyman in Chambersburg, and connects roots with local charities, Joller said.

“The whole family model, being there for other people, is what made me want to go with this model,” Victoria Lyman said.

The family moved from the Portland-Victoria area in Washington state at the end of April.

“We packed up my wife, my mother-in-law, three kids and two dogs, and came out here,” Jason Lyman said.

While the family is getting the new business set up and getting to know the area, the Lymans said they were excited to be part of the Chambersburg community.

There are no current plans for Grocery Outlet to expand to Maryland, Joller said.