LOL! Wasn’t Food Lion the place that was caught washing their “fresh” fish with bleach to make it smell better and remove those ugly signs of decay?
Most of the Food Lions around here (near Jacksonville) were anything but upscale, and one of their problems was that they never adapted to a changing market as subdivisions and condos opened around Jax and the area became more upscale, or even simply as food tastes changed.
Winn-Dixie, on the other hand, is doing a very good job of repositioning itself.
Winn Dixie was just acquired by Bi-Lo.
A&P in the northeast is doing badly too. Rumors of it’s demise are out there...
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/1997/cyb19970123.asp#5
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/1997/cyb19970127.asp#3
Do you know what I remember about Food Lion? That was the only store where I could get fresh black-eyed peas and turnip greens.
I guess I’m racist in that I was born, raised, and love soul food. ;o)
They weren’t upscale at all, but they had wonderful produce. It was locally grown in the stores where I shopped.
Do you know what I love about Winn Dixie? The thunderstorms in the produce section.
Out here, in Oregon, they play “Singing in the Rain” while blasting water on the produce. I’m not real partial to that.