Bottom Dollar Food to open 7 Pittsburgh locations

Two-thirds of the groceries in a Bottom Dollar Food store are national brands. Think Oscar Mayer Lunchables, Lay's potato chips and Van de Kamp's frozen fish.

But Pittsburgh-area shoppers who visit the discount grocer's first seven local stores, opening today, also will find private-label items with unfamiliar names such as My Essentials, Hannaford and Home 360. Depending on the product, brand and competitor, Bottom Dollar Food claims, its prices run 10 to 50 percent less than those at other stores.. . . more