Two benefits that help those in the military community stretch their dollars are commissaries and exchanges. Commissaries are on-base stores that sell discounted groceries to authorized customers.

A Navy Exchange associate delivers merchandise to a customer at the designated curbside pickup parking lot at the Pearl Harbor Navy Exchange. (Courtesy photo by Stephanie Lau-Abdul, NEX Pearl Harbor) ...

Active military have been paid so far during the government shutdown. That could change later in November. Stores that serve the military will likely shut down after Thanksgiving. Support for the ...

Base grocery and department stores provide military members, retirees and their families with shopping discounts worth $4.5 billion annually. But that’s just a fraction of the overall value these ...

When one Four Corners military surplus store closed this year, the Borgen family saw it as an opportunity to start a new one. Christine, Roger and Brandi Borgen bought most of the inventory of Alamo ...

Military stores can't stock the shelves with hand sanitizer fast enough. (Lt. Col. Antwan Williams, Army & Air Force Exchange Service) Customers in some military stores — especially in some areas ...

Military store officials are watching closely to see what effects tariffs may have on their stores and customers, and they're trying to minimize extra costs. Officials with military exchanges expect ...

Citing a nationwide shortage of pennies, some stores have started rounding purchases up — or down — to the nearest nickel. Other stores, including military shops, acknowledge that at some point ...