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) ...

DOD is taking a preliminary step toward potentially privatizing commissaries. (John Zoubra/DeCA) Military base commissaries and exchanges have been ordering more stock for weeks in anticipation of a ...

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 ...

Many military parents have been scrounging to get baby formula this year, and the shortage continues. Now, parents are also scrounging to find over-the-counter children's medications for flu, colds, ...

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 ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. - The Fort Liberty North Post Starbucks, run by the Army & Air Force Exchange Service, was brewing a special reason to celebrate when it officially became a Military Family ...