GOOD THINGS IN STORE Double R Grocery Offers a Variety of Everyday Products and Specialty Items
Writer / Angela Cornell Photographer / Jubilee Edgell
“We thought the community down here needed a mini E&S store,” Richard says.
Millersburg is a small town by anyone’s estimation - easily fitting inside 2.5 square miles - and home to less than 1,000 people. For some time, the only grocery store in town was a discount canned food store. Three years ago Richard and Rose Mast, Amish locals, purchased the store and decided to inject some new life into it.
“There’s another Bent and Dent down in Millersburg. I’m like, ‘Why have two stores doing the same thing? Why not have one with bulk foods and fresh vegetables?’” From the moment they purchased the store, the Masts’ vision was to open a bulk food store with an in-shop bakery, taking inspiration not only from E&S Sales in 6 / THE LAKES / APRIL 2020 / TheLakesMagazine.com
Shipshewana but also Rise & Roll Bakery. “We do bakery stuff to order, but we also do some bread, rolls and cookies that we put out on the shelf,” Richard says. Although the idea for Double R Grocery was based on well-established businesses in the area, it has most certainly taken on a personality of its own. Many who come to the store comment about the spaciousness and orderliness of the place,
