Food Lion supermarket to bring 70 new jobs to east F’ville

Tue, 07/07/2009 - 3:33pm
By: The Citizen

Food Lion will unveil its first store in Fayetteville, located at 12160 County Line Road, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony this Wednesday at 8 a.m.

The first 200 customers to enter the store will get a free reusable bag filled with private label products, including cereal, pasta, snack crackers and other items.

The 41,000-square-foot store will have approximately 80 associates, with about 70 positions being created for the new store, and will feature a large fresh produce department and a deli/bakery with in-store decorated cakes, specialty meats, cheeses and breads, as well as a large meat department featuring Butcher’s Brand Premium Beef, fresh pork, poultry and seafood.

Customers will also enjoy an expanded Hispanic section, as well as an expanded variety of wines. The new store also offers Western Union services, Rug Doctor rentals, Blue Rhino propane exchange and lottery.

The store will be open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Customers who use their MVP card while shopping at the store between July 8 and Aug. 4 will be entered for a chance to win “Free Groceries for a Year.” The grand prize winner will receive $5,200 in Food Lion gift cards, while four additional winners will receive $500 in Food Lion gift cards.

Keith Behrens, a native of Fayetteville, will be the manager of the new store. He has 30 years of retail management experience and joined the company in September 2008.

“We look forward to being a good neighbor and becoming a vital part of the Fayetteville community,” Behrens said. “Food Lion is dedicated to the communities it serves, and we look forward to building great relationships with our neighbors here. We look forward to serving our new customers by offering great prices and excellent customer service.”

Food Lion participates in the communities it serves and directs its corporate giving efforts toward feeding the hungry, children’s health and education, including campaigns for Hunger Has a Cure, Children’s Miracle Network, Easter Seals and United Way.

Additionally, the Food Lion Charitable Foundation provides financial support for nonprofit programs and organizations dedicated to improving the communities in which Food Lion operates.

“We appreciate the support we have received from this community as we continue to grow in the North Georgia market,” said Aaron Carlisle, director of Operations for the Atlanta-area market. “We are committed to delivering great value and quality products at everyday low prices to our customers.”

Food Lion LLC is a subsidiary of Brussels-based Delhaize Group (NYSE: DEG). Food Lion LLC operates more than 1,300 supermarkets, either directly or through affiliated entities, under the names of Food Lion, Bloom, Bottom Dollar Food, Harveys and Reid’s. Food Lion, LLC employs approximately 74,000 associates in 11 Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

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Cyclist's picture
Submitted by Cyclist on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 3:10pm.

how can it be in Fayetteville?
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Submitted by Spyglass on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 3:25pm.

but property is located in Clayton County. It's fairly common, and can be confusing to some. How do you think so many students from River's Edge get easy admission to Fayette Co schools?

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Submitted by yardman5508 on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 7:38pm.

that there are a few properties on the east side of County Line Road that actually ARE in Fayette County. And I believe that the property on which Food Lion is located is one of those locales. I might be wrong about that, but is seems to me that I read that somewhere. Keep the faith

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.


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Submitted by Cyclist on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 8:26pm.

Those properties east of County Line RD that are south of Jeff Davis and County Line/Inman Rd intersection are in fact in Fayette County. This store however is in Clayton County.

Fayette County Map

When you magnify the map click on aerial view. You can see the Fayette County boundary is west of the store.

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Submitted by Bonkers on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 6:42am.

I have now seeen a dozen comments about what county that Food Lion is in.

Does that make a difference as to shopping, or is it a conversation piece?

As I told kjean, I am writing a book.

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Submitted by Get Smart on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 3:37pm.

I can see the headlines now - Newly opened store was robbed.


Submitted by sdf405 on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 12:32pm.

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Submitted by jevank on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 1:56pm.

You should at least link your spam correctly. And most of the spammers on here are up pretty early in the morning doing their dirty deeds.

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Submitted by DarthDubious on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 2:08pm.

SPAM:

Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it's unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup.

In addition to wasting people's time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers.

There is some debate about the source of the term, but the generally accepted version is that it comes from the Monty Python song, "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…" Like the song, spam is an endless repetition of worthless text. Another school of thought maintains that it comes from the computer group lab at the University of Southern California who gave it the name because it has many of the same characteristics as the lunchmeat Spam:

1) Nobody wants it or ever asks for it.

2) No one ever eats it; it is the first item to be pushed to the side when eating the entree.

3) Sometimes it is actually tasty, like 1% of junk mail that is really useful to some people.

Individual posts containing links are not SPAM.

In Liberty,

DarthDubious


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Submitted by NUK_1 on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 7:01pm.

He/she used it exactly right. The act of using automated software to make bogus posts that simply get your website URL posted so search engines will then crawl it and see it as a backlink(and more "important" in search results" is called link spamming.


Submitted by jevank on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 2:37pm.

Are you really this pathetic, DD?

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