Gaston County, North Carolina: Grocery stores (discount, supermarket, market)

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

I noticed many BI-LO stores near Walmart Supercenter stores have closed.

Actually, I suspect that the Hispanic grocery store was the nail in the coffin. There was another Hispanic store in the building before this one. This one is bringing in more non-Hispanics.

[Carolina Knight]

Hispanic grocers specialize in Hispanic grocery items. BI-LO stores I have seen have either one fourth or one half of an aisle for Hispanic grocery items.

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

Hispanic grocers specialize in Hispanic grocery items. BI-LO stores I have seen have either one fourth or one half of an aisle for Hispanic grocery items.

Both Hispanic stores in that building have had multi-ethnic aisles as well as standard American products. This one definitely has the superior produce department. Both did in-store bakeries. This one has an in-store cafeteria & sublets areas to other retailers who sell phones & clothing.

[Carolina Knight]

Would multi-ethnic be Mexican, Cuban, etc.?

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by Carolina Knight

Would multi-ethnic be Mexican, Cuban, etc.?

This store has more Mexican than the previous Hispanic grocery store. There's shelf space for several Caribbean ethnicities & a small amount of shelf space for Asian ethnicities. The previous store had more Asian products.

[tylerSC]

So how many BI-LO stores will remain in Gaston County? What about the store that had the highly publicized renovation about a year or so ago? Will that location remain open?

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by tylerSC

So how many BI-LO stores will remain in Gaston County? What about the store that had the highly publicized renovation about a year or so ago? Will that location remain open?

The million dollar renovation was the New Hope store.

[Carolina Knight]

Originally Posted by tylerSC

So how many BI-LO stores will remain in Gaston County? What about the store that had the highly publicized renovation about a year or so ago? Will that location remain open?

BI-LO will have three stores remaining in Gaston County, one each in Gastonia, Belmont, and Stanley.

[Carolina Knight]

Here is a list of grocery stores in various grocery retail segments, their store counts, and where they are in Gaston County, North Carolina, through Monday, 7 May 2018:

Supermarket

• BI-LO (3 stores): Belmont, Gastonia, Stanley
• Food Lion (11 stores): Belmont, Cramerton, Dallas, Gastonia (6 stores), Mount Holly, Stanley
• Harris Teeter (2 stores): Belmont, Gastonia
• Ingle's (2 stores): Bessemer City, Dallas
• Publix (1 store): Gastonia
• Walmart Neighborhood Market (2 stores): Dallas, Gastonia

Hypermarket

• Walmart Supercenter (4 stores): Belmont, Cherryville, Gastonia (2 stores)

Wholesale club

• Sam's Club (1 store): Gastonia

Limited assortment/discount grocery

• Aldi (2 stores): Belmont, Gastonia
• Lidl (1 store): Gastonia
• Save-A-Lot (1 store): Gastonia

Hispanic grocery

• Wow Supermarket (1 store): Gastonia

[somebodyfromnc]

There's also a Target in Gastonia which sells groceries.