Food Lion is the greatest grocery store in the entire world and years ago I shopped at the one in the Fair oaks area. Now I have to drive all the way to Chantilly or Lorton or (God forbid) Manassas. We need more Food Lions and fewer Whole foods and Trader fucking Joes! Food lions are the perfect size stores for convenience and they still have a actual butcher that will custom cut your meat. They have great prices on beer and wine and the food lion brand products are good as hell.

Can you get chewing tobacco there too?

I never go to FL unless I'm hiking old rag and I stop at the one in Warrenton to get some food.

Cheekman Wrote:
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> Can you get chewing tobacco there too?


Yes you can and at a very reasonable price too!

Food Lion got stuck in the middle for this area.

You have the low end shops that many of the cheapskates and foreigners flock to. It reeks from the parking lot and they have live snakehead fish in 5 gal buckets and kimchee laid out all over the place. Food lion is too expensive for these people.

Then you have the actual (7 of them) rich white people. They go to Wegmans and wouldn't be caught dead in a shithole store like food lion. Then the indians go to costco. They are scared of anything with "lion" in the name.

Food lion brand brown mustard is awesome.

I go to the food lion in the Lowe's island area of sterling, one of the richest areas. Kind of weird that it's here, but I like it decent enough.

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There's still one at Mclearen and Centreville in Herndon. It was a Bloom, so the interior is pretty nice for a Food Lion.

Food Lion was first named save rite food town. The customers started calling it food lion because of the lion in the logo. The nickname stuck and was eventually adopted by the company.
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chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Food Lion is owned by Ahold Delhaize, which also
> owns Giant.
>
> However, even before Ahold and Delhaize merged
> back in 2015, Delhaize was retreating from the
> Northern Virginia market, because it was just too
> hard to make money here.
>
> Also, as part of the Ahold-Delhaize merger, they
> got rid of a bunch of their Food Lion locations to
> avoid antitrust problems.

They used to operate some of the Food Lions as "Bloom"

lion history Wrote:
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> Food Lion was first named save rite food town. The
> customers started calling it food lion because of
> the lion in the logo. The nickname stuck and was
> eventually adopted by the company.

NOT arguing with you--I have no knowledge to do so--but the Wikipedia page suggests a related but slightly different lineage:

The Food Lion name was adopted in 1983; as Food Town expanded into Virginia, the chain encountered several stores called Foodtown in the Richmond area. Expansion into Maryland would have been a bigger problem since about 100 independent, but affiliated, stores were called Food Town. Because Delhaize had a lion in its logo, Food Town had asked to use it on product labels and new store signs. Ralph Ketner realized "lion" needed only two new letters and the movement of another in the chain's signs. On December 12, 1982, Ketner announced the name change to "Food Lion," and by the end of March 1983, all stores had been rebranded.[7] The name change, while puzzling for American customers, made economic and historic sense, as Delhaize was once known as "Delhaize Le Lion".

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Lion

I like your version better, though! If you have backing evidence, update the Wikipedia page...

chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Food Lion is owned by Ahold Delhaize, which also
> owns Giant.
>
> However, even before Ahold and Delhaize merged
> back in 2015, Delhaize was retreating from the
> Northern Virginia market, because it was just too
> hard to make money here.
>
> Also, as part of the Ahold-Delhaize merger, they
> got rid of a bunch of their Food Lion locations to
> avoid antitrust problems.

Good point. Weis Markets bought a number of Food Lion locations in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Similarly, Publix bought a number of Martin's stores in the Richmond area; Martin's was a chain owned by Ahold.

Speaking of old Bloom locations, isn't it ironic that Aldi is now located where the old Bloom store in Annandale used to be.

Is the Lion cheaper than Giant?

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chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Did Food Lion ever have a significant presence in
> the area?
>
> I checked and as of 1990 they didn't have a single
> store in the D.C. Metro area, compared with over
> 200 Giants and Safeways.
>
> My thinking is that the Bloom chain, which was
> created in 2004, was their foray into the area,
> but when they ditched the Bloom brand in 2012,
> they converted a few of the Blooms, like the ones
> in Herndon and Lorton, to Food Lions and dumped
> the rest, like the ones in Fairfax and Annandale.

Yes, the Lion in Lowes Island was formerly a Bloom.

Dookie Wrote:
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> chuckhoffmann Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Did Food Lion ever have a significant presence
> in
> > the area?
> >
> > I checked and as of 1990 they didn't have a
> single
> > store in the D.C. Metro area, compared with
> over
> > 200 Giants and Safeways.
> >
> > My thinking is that the Bloom chain, which was
> > created in 2004, was their foray into the area,
> > but when they ditched the Bloom brand in 2012,
> > they converted a few of the Blooms, like the
> ones
> > in Herndon and Lorton, to Food Lions and dumped
> > the rest, like the ones in Fairfax and
> Annandale.
>
> Yes, the Lion in Lowes Island was formerly a
> Bloom.

Yes, but it was first opened as a Food Lion then converted to Bloom and then converted back to a Food lion. Bloom was a failed marketing strategy.

chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Did Food Lion ever have a significant presence in
> the area?
>
> I checked and as of 1990 they didn't have a single
> store in the D.C. Metro area, compared with over
> 200 Giants and Safeways.
>
> My thinking is that the Bloom chain, which was
> created in 2004, was their foray into the area,
> but when they ditched the Bloom brand in 2012,
> they converted a few of the Blooms, like the ones
> in Herndon and Lorton, to Food Lions and dumped
> the rest, like the ones in Fairfax and Annandale.

Good thought, but no. Food Lion came in big-time, opened a bunch of stores a couple of years before the Bloom experiment. The one at Mclearen was a Food Lion first. The one at Fair Lakes (now something else, not a grocery) was also a Food Lion (and never became a Bloom). And I remember a bunch of others, but memory fades. Those two I'm sure of, though!

chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Did Food Lion ever have a significant presence in
> the area?
>
> I checked and as of 1990 they didn't have a single
> store in the D.C. Metro area, compared with over
> 200 Giants and Safeways.
>
> My thinking is that the Bloom chain, which was
> created in 2004, was their foray into the area,
> but when they ditched the Bloom brand in 2012,
> they converted a few of the Blooms, like the ones
> in Herndon and Lorton, to Food Lions and dumped
> the rest, like the ones in Fairfax and Annandale.

There was one where the Big Lots is beside the Wal-Mart on Lee Highway -- where the Home Depot Expo Design Center was. It was a Food Lion, then a Bloom, then a Food Lion. It closed after Wal-Mart opened.

>
>
> Good thought, but no. Food Lion came in big-time,
> opened a bunch of stores a couple of years before
> the Bloom experiment. The one at Mclearen was a
> Food Lion first. The one at Fair Lakes (now
> something else, not a grocery) was also a Food
> Lion (and never became a Bloom). And I remember a
> bunch of others, but memory fades. Those two I'm
> sure of, though!

The one in Lorton was a Food Lion, then a Bloom, then back to Food Lion.

I love going to food lion when Im at the beach. They have what I need in a small store, wish we had more food lions here.

chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Did Food Lion ever have a significant presence in
> the area?
>
> I checked and as of 1990 they didn't have a single
> store in the D.C. Metro area, compared with over
> 200 Giants and Safeways.
>
> My thinking is that the Bloom chain, which was
> created in 2004, was their foray into the area,
> but when they ditched the Bloom brand in 2012,
> they converted a few of the Blooms, like the ones
> in Herndon and Lorton, to Food Lions and dumped
> the rest, like the ones in Fairfax and Annandale.


i think you’re talking about Magruder’s

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chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Greybeard Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > chuckhoffmann Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Did Food Lion ever have a significant
> presence
> > in
> > > the area?
> > >
> > > I checked and as of 1990 they didn't have a
> > single
> > > store in the D.C. Metro area, compared with
> > over
> > > 200 Giants and Safeways.
> > >
> > > My thinking is that the Bloom chain, which
> was
> > > created in 2004, was their foray into the
> area,
> > > but when they ditched the Bloom brand in
> 2012,
> > > they converted a few of the Blooms, like the
> > ones
> > > in Herndon and Lorton, to Food Lions and
> dumped
> > > the rest, like the ones in Fairfax and
> > Annandale.
> >
> > Good thought, but no. Food Lion came in
> big-time,
> > opened a bunch of stores a couple of years
> before
> > the Bloom experiment. The one at Mclearen was a
> > Food Lion first. The one at Fair Lakes (now
> > something else, not a grocery) was also a Food
> > Lion (and never became a Bloom). And I remember
> a
> > bunch of others, but memory fades. Those two
> I'm
> > sure of, though!
>
> You're right. A bit more digging and I've found a
> 1997 reference to the Food Lion in Herndon on
> Elden Street, which later became a Fresh World.

I don't care for Food Lion.

The Food Lion on 123 in FFX Station (near BUrke Center Parkway) became Gold's Gym. Except for this location, fitness centers and grocery stores do not mix. The Gold's Gym in Merrified is above Great Wall and reeks of fish.

And, no, I don't mean the members.

The Magruder's in Annandale (Columbia Pike and Annandale Road) became a Bloom and lasted less than a year. It remained empty until last fall when Aldi opened.

Someone believes FFX County is ripe for more grocery stores. Border's, which became GolfSmith, is now Earth Fare. Went there last night. Reminds me of one of those large botegas in Manhattan. The store looks like someone took WFM and did a Flip/Flop reno. Lots of subway tiles on the walls.

Aldi is opening locations everywhere, and Lidl (another German grocer) is doing the same.

I cannot wait for Amazon to fully integrate WFM, that way the drones can deliver all my groceries directly my front door.

Food lion can deliver right to your door!

https://www.foodlion.com/promotions/to-go/

NC man Wrote:
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> Food lion can deliver right to your door!
>
> https://www.foodlion.com/promotions/to-go/


Get off your fat ass and walk to the store. You need the exercise.

Food lion has the lowest prices on beer.

VB liker Wrote:
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> I love going to food lion when Im at the beach.
> They have what I need in a small store, wish we
> had more food lions here.

Food Lion has many location on the Outer Banks. No need to haul a bunch of food down there anymore.

I go to a secluded area of the RT.12 corridor south of populated areas. Food lion has most popular items in stock.

Op must be a redneck. Food lion sucks!! Then again, I am a proud socialist liberal who cant imagine life without trader Joe's or whole foods.

Earth fare decor gives me a headache and the aisles are too narrow.

THe food lion lion is so cute!
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Food lion is the best grocery store in the world.

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> Is the Lion cheaper than Giant?


They had an issue of selling spoiled meat.

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> > Is the Lion cheaper than Giant?
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>
> They had an issue of selling spoiled meat.


If I remember it was meat from the deli. They were also bleaching it too.

Sometime in the late 90s.

GROSS!!!!

Ludwig Wrote:
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> Cholera and Typhoid Supermarket Wrote:
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> > Piggly Wiggly Wrote:
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> > > Is the Lion cheaper than Giant?
> >
> >
> > They had an issue of selling spoiled meat.
>
>
> If I remember it was meat from the deli. They
> were also bleaching it too.
>
> Sometime in the late 90s.
>
> GROSS!!!!


That made the news but it was all staged by disgruntled Food lion employees that were trying to help the union move in at food lion.

Most area groceries are unionized. Good for them!