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Price-Rite Market & Deli — known locally as “The Little Store” — is a corner market and Italian deli at 6400 NW Waukomis Drive, Kansas City, MO 64151, in the Northland just north of the Line Creek Trailhead. Santo and Jeannine Smiraldo bought the shuttered building in June 2014 after it had sat closed since 2009, cleaned it out over two weeks, rebuilt the kitchen, and reopened it as a hybrid: groceries, beer, wine and liquor on one side; scratch Italian food, New York-style pizza, made-to-order sandwiches and prepared dinners on the other. The store also still sells straw, livestock feed and salt blocks. Tier 1 — single location, owner-operated, no parent company.123

Description

Price-Rite is a category-resistant business, and first-party copy says so plainly: it “cannot be considered a true grocery store or delicatessen, but a little of both.” The grocery side carries staples, liquor, beer and wine, plus farm goods — straw, livestock feed and salt blocks — that mark it as a survivor of the Northland’s rural period rather than a suburban convenience store.12

The kitchen is the part that draws people from outside the neighborhood. The Smiraldos rebuilt it after taking over so the store could make food to order as well as sell it ready-made: fresh and prepared Italian dishes from family recipes, entrées including lasagna, manicotti and chicken dishes, daily sandwich specials, 16-inch New York-style pizzas, and cannoli.1 Northland City Lifestyle adds stromboli, Italian beef sandwiches and onion rings to the picture, along with a shelf of imported Italian grocery — San Marzano tomatoes, lupini beans, dried pasta.3

Seating is a covered patio with picnic tables rather than a dining room, and the store caters both personal and company functions.1 It runs its own delivery fleet with a $40 order minimum in addition to carryout.2

Northland City Lifestyle frames it as “a true community gathering spot” where customers “leave with more than just groceries — you’ll leave with a sense of belonging.”3 KCUR’s Up To Date Northland restaurant round-up (March 2025) included it among staff picks, describing a small deli with sandwiches, daily specials and pizza near Line Creek.4

Ownership and history

Santo and Jeannine Smiraldo purchased the building in June 2014. Per the store’s own About page, it had been closed since 2009; Santo, described first-party as a former grocery man looking for an opportunity, took it on, and the pair spent more than two weeks clearing out old groceries, staples, fixtures and junk before they could begin. Both wanted restaurant-quality food in the store, so they revamped the kitchen for made-to-order and ready-made items.1

Northland City Lifestyle (Jenny Vergara, photography by Hannah Schreiner), in a feature headlined “The Little Store Turns Ten,” reports the building was constructed in the early 1900s as a single-family home and later served as a feed store and corner market before closing in 2009 and standing vacant until the current owners renovated it. That piece also reports that after a decade the owners remain hands-on, with Santo behind the counter seven days a week.3 The article’s exact publication date is **** — the headline implies 2024, ten years after the 2014 purchase, but no date is printed on the page as fetched.

Surname spelling. The store’s own About page spells it Smiraldo; Northland City Lifestyle spells it Smiroldo. The first-party spelling is used here; the variant is recorded so searches resolve either way.

Earlier operators of the store — under the Price-Rite name or before it — and the year the original market opened are ****.

menu_status: partial — the items below are taken from first-party pages (About and home) and from Northland City Lifestyle. Prices are. The store’s own ordering page at priceritemarketdeli.com/order is a JavaScript-rendered Menufy storefront that did not return item prices to a plain fetch on 2026-08-13, and the catering page carries an inquiry form rather than a price list. No delivery-platform or aggregator prices have been substituted; items are recorded because they are what the Registry’s search indexes.1253

Pizza — 16-inch New York-style pizza · Take-and-bake pizza.

Sandwiches and hot items — Fresh made-to-order sandwiches · Italian beef sandwich · Stromboli · Wings · Wraps · Onion rings · Salads.

Prepared dinners and entrées — Lasagna · Manicotti · Chicken dishes · Daily specials · Holiday prime rib dinner (referenced in a first-party-published customer review).

Dessert — Cannoli.

Grocery — Italian imports including San Marzano tomatoes, lupini beans and dried pasta; general groceries; beer, wine and liquor; straw, livestock feed and salt blocks.13

Ordering terms — Own-fleet delivery with a $40 minimum order; carryout available during posted carryout hours; catering by inquiry form.25

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Footnotes

  1. Price Rite Mkt & Deli — “About Us” page (first-party) (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: location on Waukomis Drive in the Northland, about 5.3 miles / 11 minutes from downtown Kansas City; owners Santo and Jeannine Smiraldo purchased the store in June 2014; the store had been closed since 2009; it was packed with old groceries, staples, fixtures and junk and took over two weeks to clear; Santo is described as a former grocery man; the store “cannot be considered a true grocery store or delicatessen, but a little of both,” and also sells straw, livestock feed and salt blocks; both owners wanted restaurant-quality food and revamped the kitchen for made-to-order and ready-made items; fresh and prepared Italian food from family recipes, entrées including lasagna, manicotti and chicken dishes, daily sandwich specials, 16-inch pizzas and cannoli; covered patio with picnic tables; catering for personal and company functions. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. Price Rite Mkt & Deli — official site home page (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: self-description as “The Little Store” selling “groceries, liquor, beer and wine fixing fresh made sandwiches, dinners and New York Style pizza all made in house”; address 6400 Northwest Waukomis Drive, Kansas City, MO 64151; phone (816) 587-1200; business hours Mon–Sat 6:00 AM–9:00 PM and Sun 6:00 AM–7:00 PM; carryout hours Mon–Sat 6:00 AM–7:45 PM and Sun 6:00 AM–6:30 PM; delivery hours Mon–Sat 6:00 AM–8:00 PM and Sun 6:00 AM–7:00 PM; cuisines listed as Italian, pizza, deli, chicken, pasta, salads, sandwiches, wings, wraps; “Find us north of Line Creek Trailhead on Waukomis Drive”; live coupon code AUGUSTGAME15 for 15% off online orders over $20, capped at $10, expiring August 16, 2026; embedded structured data specifying own-fleet delivery with a $40.00 minimum transaction; published customer reviews referencing take-and-bake pizzas and a prime rib Christmas dinner; a link to the City Lifestyle feature “The Little Store Turns Ten.” ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. Jenny Vergara (photography by Hannah Schreiner), “The Little Store Turns Ten,” Northland City Lifestyle (accessed 2026-08-13; publication date not printed on the page as fetched) — asserts: owners rendered as Santo and Jeannine Smiroldo; purchased 2014; the building was constructed in the early 1900s as a single-family home and later served as a feed store and corner market before closing in 2009 and standing vacant until the owners acquired and renovated it; address 6400 N.W. Waukomis Dr., Kansas City, Missouri 64151; phone (816) 587-1200; Italian specialties including New York-style pizza, stromboli, Italian beef sandwiches, onion rings and prepared dinners; Italian grocery including San Marzano tomatoes, lupini beans and dried pasta; after a decade Santo works behind the counter seven days a week; the store described as “a true community gathering spot” where customers “leave with more than just groceries—you’ll leave with a sense of belonging.” ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. “Food recs: The best restaurants in Kansas City’s Northland,” Up To Date, KCUR 89.3, March 15, 2025 — asserts: Price-Rite Market & Deli included among staff Northland picks, described as a small deli near Line Creek with sandwiches, daily specials and pizza. ↩

  5. Price Rite Mkt & Deli — online ordering page on the store’s own domain (Menufy-powered storefront, location id 57022) (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: the store operates first-party online ordering for carryout and delivery. Item prices are rendered client-side and were not retrievable by plain fetch on this date; no prices are carried from this source. ↩ ↩2

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