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Boone will have five supermarket chains with Food Lion, Harris Teeter, Ingle's, Lowe's Foods, and Publix. Everyone will be competing beyond price for business. I wonder if there will be too much competition to the point an inferior competitor exits.
Can't ignore Earthfare and WalMart for groceries, too.
Can't ignore Earthfare and WalMart for groceries, too.
You are right about grocery options in other formats. Earth Fare (178 West King Street, Boone, North Carolina 28607-3513) is a specialty grocer. Walmart Supercenter #2496 (Watauga Village, 200 Watauga Village Drive, Boone, North Carolina 28607-5029) is a hypermarket.
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You are right about grocery options in other formats. Earth Fare (178 West King Street, Boone, North Carolina 28607-3513) is a specialty grocer. Walmart Supercenter #2496 (Watauga Village, 200 Watauga Village Drive, Boone, North Carolina 28607-5029) is a hypermarket.
This play may not even open before I graduate in May, since it sounds like they're planning to tear down the building and build an all new shopping center. Regardless, I'll probably stick with Lowes, they do a 10% student discount on Sundays and the gas discount at WilcoHess is great.
I'm not a fan of the Ingles in Boone. I prefer all of the other grocery stores over it. It is a bit grimy looking and I don't think their generics are very good. I do like their loaded potato salad though.
Really? I've never found it to be grimy. I've been in far worse, like many Food Lions, although I've been in some swank Food Lions, too.
I think I've shopped at most of the grocery stores in Boone (Earthfare, Lowes, HT, avoid Wal-Mart like the plague). I can't place the Food Lion right now. Where is it? Not sure I've been there. Ingles is just closest to our place so that's where we usually go. Saves having to get on 321.
I can't place the Food Lion right now. Where is it?
There's one in the Wal-Mart shopping center, and another at the edge of town at the 421/Old 421 light. Worlds apart in quality too, the one on 321 grossed me out, I've only been in there once. The one out on 421 is a lot nicer, stopped there on the way out to the Parkway a couple times. But it seems a bit undersized, probably because it isn't exactly a big customer base.
This play may not even open before I graduate in May, since it sounds like they're planning to tear down the building and build an all new shopping center. Regardless, I'll probably stick with Lowes, they do a 10% student discount on Sundays and the gas discount at WilcoHess is great.
Considering the final approval of Blowing Rock Market, demolition and cleanup of Kmart, and the construction of Publix, the process should take a year. I would think the end of 2016 would be the earliest Publix could open.
There's one in the Wal-Mart shopping center, and another at the edge of town at the 421/Old 421 light. Worlds apart in quality too, the one on 321 grossed me out, I've only been in there once. The one out on 421 is a lot nicer, stopped there on the way out to the Parkway a couple times. But it seems a bit undersized, probably because it isn't exactly a big customer base.
It is rare for supermarkets to be in the same retail centers as Walmart Supercenters. Walmart Supercenter #2496 should be busier than Food Lion #1503 (Watauga Village, 350 Watauga Village Drive, Boone, North Carolina 28607-5263).
It is rare for supermarkets to be in the same retail centers as Walmart Supercenters. Walmart Supercenter #2496 should be busier than Food Lion #1503 (Watauga Village, 350 Watauga Village Drive, Boone, North Carolina 28607-5263).
I guess Food Lion is technically in a different shopping center but just across the parking lot from WalMart. Same access road off Blowing Rock Road. I have no doubt that Walmart is busier than Food Lion.
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Lowes, they do a 10% student discount on Sundays and the gas discount at WilcoHess is great.
The gas discount at Lowe's is crap compared to Bi Lo. At Lowe's you have to spend $100 to get $.05 per gallon. For my car with a 15 gallon gas tank, that's a whopping $.75 per tank savings after spending $100 on groceries (alcohol doesn't count for gas points). Bi Lo (when we lived in SC) was $.05 per $50 spent and the points didn't expire nearly as quickly as they do at Lowe's. With Lowe's student discount of 10%, prices are still higher than WalMart and most of Food Lion's prices. It's all window dressing.
The Ingles in Boone is small as another poster said; the Ingles in West Jeff is awesome and they are building a gas station too. There has always been room inside for a coffee place so maybe they will do that too. Ingles West Jeff and HT in Boone are basically, IMHO, the only two grocery stores that amount to anything. Earthfare is probably third on our list -- but we usually shop the perimeter of the store only.
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