Ollie's Bargain Outlet

A reader alerted me to the fact that there's a new store going on at the old Acme supermarket in New Garden. Habitat for Humanity's "Restore" has been there for a while, and "Ollie's Bargain Outlet" will join it on April 4. I drove by and saw "help wanted" signs, along with a few workers sitting out on the curb taking a break from getting the store stocked and ready to open. Based on a quick look through the door, the merchandise appears to be similar to the Dollar store and the Big Lots already in that shopping center. According to its website, Ollie's is "the Mid-Atlantic's largest retailer of close-outs, surplus and salvage merchandise" and its slogan is "Good Stuff Cheap!"
And Reader Nancy alerted me to "all the building and rebuilding of homes and barns on Mill Road. A lot of stone walls, fencing, plantings etc. Looks like a first-class job not to mention the expense." I took a drive by and she is certainly right -- there were a dozen work trucks in there, and the big barn that is being rebuilt looks terrific. (This is the farm with the quarter-mile-long white wall that a friend of mine has dubbed the Great Wall of Kennett.)