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See the Food Lion in Creedmoor is very nice and clean, extremely helpful staff in my opinion. but!! That does not make me want to buy meat there or other things such as milk, Food lion just has and had too many oopsys for my comfort, and I do not find the quality of certain items to be worth their asking price, no matter how cheap it is being advertised for.
No, it's not an NC thing...as Harris Teeter is also headquartered here and they are some of the cleanest stores I've ever seen.
There are chains up North that are the pits as well.
Moreover, Food Lion is a subsidiary of Delhaize which is headquartered in Belgium while Harris Teeter is based in Matthews and The Fresh Market is headquartered in Greensboro.
For unusual things, and healthy alternatives, I like Fresh Market and Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. I offset the $$$ of items by purchasing staples and non-perishables elsewhere.
Food Lion is excellent when compared to any other store. Walmart would beat Food Lion hands-down with groceries if they were closer to our home. Thank to Lord that atleast one grocery chain is affordable.
I went to Lowes Food a few nights ago and came out with four bags that cost $28. They were simple items. Lowes offers twice as much as Food Lion. However, for the average blue collar working family, Food Lion is the only option, majority of the time.
The only place I could think of that would be worse than Food Lion for groceries is Wal-Mart. You couldn't pay me to go in that store.
We shop at Lowes Foods in Knightdale every week, and have since the day they opened. Prior to that, our choices were Winn-Dixie (ick) or Food Lion (double-ick). WD was always out of items they advertised on sale, even the first day of the sale. They always had insufficient stock of at least five things on my list every week, and never more than two cashiers open at a time - one of them being the express lane.
Both stores always seem so dirty, I felt like I needed to bathe when I left.
We didn't notice much difference at all in our grocery bills when we started shopping at Lowes. Maybe $5 or so - and it's so worth it to shop in a clean store with friendly people. The employees are always friendly and make small talk, and willing to help. The quality of the food is excellent, and there are many organic choices available.
I think Food Lion is fine, it just depends on where you live I guess and I don't mean that wealthy areas have nicer stores. SOme are decent, some are not. Both of the FL's by me in Cary are totally gross, but I have been in several that are quite nice. Someone mentioned the one on Creedmoor and I used to shop there all the time, it is a pretty nice store. Also the one off 70 near Target is decent. I used to shop there all the time too.
I think Food Lion is fine, it just depends on where you live I guess and I don't mean that wealthy areas have nicer stores. SOme are decent, some are not. Both of the FL's by me in Cary are totally gross, but I have been in several that are quite nice. Someone mentioned the one on Creedmoor and I used to shop there all the time, it is a pretty nice store. Also the one off 70 near Target is decent. I used to shop there all the time too.
The FL on NC-54 is nasty. It's in a nice area but I am totally not impressed. I am sorry that the 4 bags of groceries at Lowes cost $28, but I don't know if that is a lot or not a lot (really depends on what you bought). If you shop sale items, you can get good deals at any of the chain markets, so I don't think that FL is any cheaper than Lowes or Harris Teeter.
Food Lion is excellent when compared to any other store. Walmart would beat Food Lion hands-down with groceries if they were closer to our home. Thank to Lord that atleast one grocery chain is affordable.
I went to Lowes Food a few nights ago and came out with four bags that cost $28. They were simple items. Lowes offers twice as much as Food Lion. However, for the average blue collar working family, Food Lion is the only option, majority of the time.
I really doubt that. I don't find the prices there that great. If one shops carefully, you don't have to accept sub-standard meat and produce because one doesn't have budget flexiblity.
I was very anti Food Lion before I moved here because all the ones I'd ever been in in Virginia were kind of run down and it was very hard to find anything even vaguely unusual (though one time they didn't even have parsley). But the Food Lion by Woodcroft in Durham is very clean with extremely polite, helpful staff, and great kiddie carts, and we've enjoyed shopping there. They also have a great bakery and very juicy rotisserie chickens.
I also go to Kroger or Harris Teeter depending on my mood or location at the time I decide to grocery shop I've always considered Harris Teeters the cream of the crop but was disappointed by the produce in a Chapel Hill HT I went to (on 54). I love the one on 54 in SW Durham though
As for milk spoiling early, I don't think any would ever survive in my fridge long enough for me to notice But will definitely check b/c I have some FL ones in the fridge.
I'll be one of the few who admits to shopping regularly at Food Lion. Some of the stores are older, but I've never seen any of them filthy. Unless I need an exotic ingredient of some kind, I'm just not going to pay an extra 25% so I can have free sugar cookies and access to a pharmacy.
I drink their milk and eat their meat and never gotten sick or had something weird. Frankly, few cashiers at any place are all that nice and again, if I can save 25%, I don't care if they even speak to me.
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Food lion just has and had too many oopsys for my comfort, and I do not find the quality of certain items to be worth their asking price, no matter how cheap it is being advertised for. 
I've always considered Harris Teeters the cream of the crop but was disappointed by the produce in a Chapel Hill HT I went to (on 54). I love the one on 54 in SW Durham though 
