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OK, I had another of my random conversations with a stranger. This time it was in Ingles & the man told me that he works in the grocery business. He was in there looking for some items that would fit with a medical diet & comes to Kings Mountain occasionally on business.
In the course of the conversation he mentioned that he's heard that Food Lion is going to try to convert their bigger Kings Mountain store to a Bottom Dollar. Anyone been in one of those?
I mentioned what I had heard that Ingles is looking at property in east Gastonia & Belmont. He got a surprised look & said that that's what he'd heard.
Then we got talking about the empty Winn-Dixie in Kings Mountain & he said that he heard that Winn Dixie owns that building & he heard that they are considering reopening it to cater to Hispanics & Asians.
Anyone else heard anything about the grocery store chains in the Charlotte metro?
We have a Bottom Dollar in Mooresville. It's part of Food Lion. I've been inside twice, don't think I'll be shopping there again. It just grossed me out.
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We have a Bottom Dollar in Mooresville. It's part of Food Lion. I've been inside twice, don't think I'll be shopping there again. It just grossed me out.
Thanks, Rosie. Considering how gross the bigger Kings Mountain Food Lion is, I didn't think that a cheap version was going to be an improvement, but you never know. . . The little one is just plain weird. Apparently they still can't figure out why Ingles is killing them here. (& I'm being polite compared to what I've heard about these stores from the natives. . .)
Food Lion has a hierarchy of stores catering to particular markets. Bloom would be the upper end; Bottom Dollar more towards the lower income and immigrant shoppers. The regular Food Lion is middle market. It's a concept of diversification started 5-6 years ago.
We're lucky to have FL, Lowes and Harris Teeter in close circumference to where we live, so I can compare sales each week. We try to spread our shopping $ between those three anyway to support the diversity of grocery choices and keep the Walmart empire from overbearing the market.
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Food Lion has a hierarchy of stores catering to particular markets. Bloom would be the upper end; Bottom Dollar more towards the lower income and immigrant shoppers. The regular Food Lion is middle market. It's a concept of diversification started 5-6 years ago.
We're lucky to have FL, Lowes and Harris Teeter in close circumference to where we live, so I can compare sales each week. We try to spread our shopping $ between those three anyway to support the diversity of grocery choices and keep the Walmart empire from overbearing the market.
I heard that Bottom Dollar was supposed to be competing with Aldi, but Aldis are generally clean & well lit.
Ingles beats up Food Lion wherever they compete, from everything that I've read on the 2. I've seen 4 Harris Teeters west of Charlotte. I'm sure that there's more, but 3 of the 4 that I've seen are old & grungy.
The man who I had the conversation with made a comment in passing that Food Lion's purchase of BiLo fell through. There's a thread on the Spartanburg/Greenville board that seems to confirm that.
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oh, just keep your fingers crossed that everything works out and Publix comes to Fort Mill!
Yeah, the man I was talking with brought that up. He seemed to think that it was unusual for them to run into a snag putting up a store. That's when I mentioned what I heard about Ingles going into East Gastonia or Belmont.
We talked about the Publix/Harris Teeter rumor & he said that that has run rampant in the grocery business for a long time. He seemed to question it's validity. At that point I said that it seems that Ingles & Publix compete in Greenville & Spartanburg & possibly some other areas & asked him if it made more sense for the rumored agreement to actually be between Publix & Ingles & he said yes.
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That's totally different than the majority of HT's (and Lowe's also) in and around Charlotte I've been to.
Most of the ones I've been to are clean/well lit and have excellent cust service...(you will pay for that also....)
The only Lowes that I'm aware of west of Charlotte is in Gastonia. It's very nice, well lit, & clean.
My Ingles is huge (80K sq ft) Kings Mountain OKs $30.4 million budget, ups power rate | mountain, kings, city - Local News - The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/mountain-22172-kings-city.html - broken link) , well lit, clean, great customer service, & the prices blow Food Lion away.
The man I was speaking with was a Yankee as well. He said he normally shops at the Dallas Ingles, but was in Kings Mountain on business, so was checking out the Kings Mountain store since it's the biggest one in the area.
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(& I'm being polite compared to what I've heard about these stores from the natives. . .)
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