{"id":5372,"date":"2026-09-28T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/straubs-closes-cwe-store-after-78-years\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:48:42","slug":"straubs-closes-cwe-store-after-78-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/straubs-closes-cwe-store-after-78-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Straub\u2019s Closes CWE Store After 78 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FFwdZDJO2SvQ%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m heartbroken\u2019: Customers say goodbye as Central West End staple shuts doors\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FwdZDJO2SvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 28, 2026 (STL.News) A longtime chapter of Central West End history has ended. Straub\u2019s Markets closed its grocery store at 302 N. Kingshighway Blvd. on Friday, Sept. 25, ending a 78-year run at the prominent Kingshighway and Maryland Plaza intersection. The closing drew emotional reactions from customers who made final visits to a store that had served the neighborhood since 1948. For generations of St. Louis residents, Straub\u2019s was more than another place to buy groceries. It was a family-owned neighborhood institution that survived dramatic changes in the grocery industry and in the<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/straubs-closes-cwe-store-after-78-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 28, 2026 (STL.News) A longtime chapter of Central West End history has ended. Straub\u2019s Markets closed its grocery store at 302 N. Kingshighway Blvd. on Friday, Sept. 25, ending a 78-year run at the prominent&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}