According to ABC 7 News, Food Lion is "… converting 15 stores into Bottom Dollar stores, its low-cost sibling. Those stores will be located in Fredericksburg, Sterling, Woodbridge, Mount Vernon, Manassas, Fairfax and Dumfries in Virginia and Frederick, Gaithersburg and Laurel in Maryland."
They are also converting some of their stores to their upscale brand, but Frederick gets stuck with the budget one.
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Someone at the Walkersville Food Lion told my aunt that that store will be converted to Bloom (the upscale Food Lion) this summer, and that they’ll be adding 100 new produce items, a prepared foods section and self checkout.
It would be great if the cashier was right. Thanks for the tip!
No two Food Lions in Frederick have become BLOOM. The one in Walkersville and the one in Yellow Springs. The third one become Bottom Dollar.
I never did understand this change from Food Lion to Bloom or Bottom Dollar. If it aint’ broke, don’t fix it.
I liked Food Lion just fine and wish it did not have to be changed.
What about the other 12 Food lions that were mentioned in the article? Any one know which direction they went as far being upscaled to Blooms or bargain scaled to Bottom Dollars?
Mount Vernon Virginia store became a Bottom Dollar. I agree with H. Fraser Clayton why change a good thing. I guess they chose to go that way because their is an Aldi’s up the street and they wanted to try and compete.
Food Lion at 8300 Sudley in Manassas is going Bottom $.
I don’t think Bottom Dollar will make it, IMO. In the 1980s, others have tried and failed with the bargain concept: Grand Union (Basics), Safeway (Food Barn), and A&P (Plus). Shoppers also stared out as a “Food Warehouse” but in the 1990s, they changed their format.
Listen,,i hear ya on the “if it aint broke,,dont fix it” But it is broke,,the trend is reversing in shopping-it is a fierce world in the grocery industry to capture as many of your dollars as they can,,,and in that world,you have to adapt..the clean break from the food lion image will prove to be brilliant move by delhaize. In two yrs time none of you will remember a food lion..some fo you may not shop at bottom dollar,,,but there is their BLOOM concept as well,,,completely designed by US the customers,,,anything that you can think of to make your shopping experience better,they’ve done it..I hope you all enjoy! Ken seriously give it up,,,its always been shoppers food warehouse,,,and they have upgraded some of their higher volume store,,lobster tanks,full service seafood,,more bakery offerings and self checkout,,,,its kill or be killed not a copy cat move–you seem smarter than that…jeesh
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Trevor, my friend. Don’t you have anything better to do than to bash my ideas? Have you been to Shoppers lately? You would have to be blind not to notice that “Shoppers Food Warehouse” has changed their signs to say simply “Shoppers.” At Shoppers, are you still buying your bags? If so, then you are being ripped off, my friend. Although some Shoppers have been converted to El Mercado, an international market. I am not really familar with them so I can’t comment at this time.
As a current Food Lion employee at one of the slowest stores in the state due to a military Comissary across the street the Bottom $$$ IS ON ITS WAY. I find that the change could be a good one and as long as you can get what you want for a reasonable price whats the difference that the name has changed. In reality they are all the same store and just scaled to thier cleintel…
It would be interesting to shop with the new name in mind.
well the bottom $$$ in chantilly has closed up. are they all going out .
I had taken a drive by the Chantilly Bottom Dollar and it is closed. I am not sure what happened. It could be that they may rebrand it as a Bloom or go back to Food Lion. It’s also possible that they will keep it vacant and try to sell off the lease. My guess is that one of those temporary book markets will go in there.
The local store here has become a Bottom Dollar Foods store. I went in today and they told me that they charge you for the bags you use. I personally think that this is taking away customer service. What is next? All gas stations used to be full service which is now gone, some stores require you to bag your own items, and now you have to pay for the bags. I personally think that this concept is a bad idea. As the customer that they gain revenue from, I think we need to take a stand and start getting customer service back. I personally would rather pay a few cents more on my total bill for great customer service. If i wanted to get the best price i would head out and buy in bulk. We need to hang on the customer service that we have before it all is gone….
I like the change. What Bottom Dollar did is look at their inventory/sales records and only sell what sells. Not stocking obscure items that they pay for then sits on shelves for a year, saves them money. Not a great selection, but pay half what Giant or Safeway charges. In light of the current recession (yes, Virginia, we are in one) I have noticed an increase in their business. I shop there every day or two on the way home. I shopped there when it was a Food Lion, and it is better now. Bloom is still too pricey for me and not close either.
I guess this strays a bit from the subject of this thread, but I personally would love to see grocery stores move from the practice of routinely supplying paper or plastic bags to…BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag–or Box).
I find it’s no trouble to bring my own bags and containers when I shop for groceries and in fact much prefer to do so. (And obviously, it’s an environmentally friendly practice requiring little effort or sacrifice.) My cloth bags have nice carrying handles and are larger and sturdier than any of the usual paper/plastic bags. I place frozen or refrigerated goods directly into large-capacity insulated bags (w/handles) as I’m shopping to help keep them cold. (And of course these items go back into the insulated bags after checkout for the trip home.)
It’s easy (even for habitually disorganized persons like myself) to keep bags on hand in the car at the ready for grocery trips. But, I recognize there will always be a need to have some bags on hand in grocery stores for those who need them (myself included, on rare occasions). In these instances, charging the customer a small amount for the bags does not seem unreasonable to me.
I find it unreasonable. I recycle my plastic bags. Not only at the store but here in my home using them for diapers (NO I don’t use cloth), cat litter, etc.
I totally agree they need to be recycled and should not be just tossed into the trash. Using the reusable totes should be optional and not another mandated charge to the customer.
Should be up to the business. If it saves them money to not supply a bag so they can keep prices lower, I think it’s a totally fine practice.
The couple of cents for a bag makes people conscious of the cost.
Now if they could figure out a way to streamline all of America’s food packaging : a box over a bag on every item is way more wasteful than a bag for 10 items.
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Go Amber! Hope you sell a lot of your insulated grocery bags. They’re particularly great in the summertime but are useful all year long.