Food Lion expands grocery pickup to 9 NC stores, including 4 Triangle locations
Food Lion’s grocery pickup feature is now available at nine more stores in North Carolina, and four of the new spots are in the Triangle.
With the expansion, the homegrown grocer now offers Food Lion To Go or home delivery to more than 95% of its 10-state operating area. Food Lion has over 1,100 stores across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region.
“We continue to offer Food Lion To Go at additional stores to help our customers spend more time on what matters most to them,” Evan Harding, the director of digital and ecommerce at Food Lion, said in a press release.
In 2023, North Carolina-based Food Lion had the third-highest market share among grocers in the Raleigh area, The News & Observer previously reported. The store followed Walmart, which had 20.16% of the market share, and Harris Teeter, with 18% of the market share.
The rankings were the same for grocers in the Durham/Chapel Hill region, where Food Lion held 14.93% of the market share, again following Walmart and Harris Teeter.
Food Lion, which was founded in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1957, also serves the sixth best grocery store fried chicken, according to The N&O’s food writer and service team. We liked the seasoning, but we didn’t care for the dryness of the chicken. (Spoiler: Publix wins that competition.)
Which Triangle stores were included in the program expansion?
As of May 20, Food Lion stores in eight North Carolina cities added Food Lion To Go. Four stores in the Triangle were included:
- Durham: 4621 Hillsborough Road
- Raleigh: 5633 Creedmoor Crossing and 1601 Cross Link Road
- Morrisville: 3609 Davis Drive
The other Food Lion stores now offering grocery pickup are in Battleboro, Kenly, Rocky Mount and Wilson.
How does Food Lion To Go work?
- Open the Food Lion To Go app or visit the website, shop.foodlion.com. Food Lion To Go is available daily from 8 a.m. to store closing.
- Enter your ZIP code and choose a store.
- Add groceries to the cart. Customers 21 years old and older can purchase beer and wine.
- Select a pickup window. It can be the same day or up to seven days in the future.
- Check out. Food Lion MVP savings loyalty cards can be linked to customers’ accounts, so they can use digital coupons and “Shop & Earn” MVP rewards program savings.
- A shopper will pick the groceries, pack them up and store them until customers arrive. Then, a shopper will load the groceries into the customer’s car.
Food Lion stores already offering grocery pickup
Food Lion To Go is not new to the Triangle. It was already offered at 13 Raleigh locations, six in Durham and one in Chapel Hill, in addition to stores in Cary, Apex and other surrounding cities.
Other grocers offering to-go services
Food Lion isn’t the only grocer that makes order pick-up available to customers.
Shoppers can take advantage of delivery and/or to-go at the following markets with participating stores:
- Walmart: Delivery and pickup
- Harris Teeter: Delivery and pickup
- Publix: Place curbside and delivery orders through Instacart, or order items such as subs, wraps and platters online.
- Fresh Market: Curbside pickup and delivery through Uber Eats, Instacart and DoorDash is available.
- Lidl: Same-day delivery is offered through Shipt.
- Aldi: Delivery and pickup
- Wegmans: Delivery and pickup
- Lowes Foods: Delivery and pickup
- Whole Foods: Shop via Amazon.
- Target: Delivery and pickup
- Carlie C’s IGA: Delivery and pickup
- Sprouts: Delivery and pickup
- Weaver Street Market: Delivery and pickup
- Dollar General: Delivery through DoorDash, and pickup
Trader Joe’s does not offer delivery or pickup.
More grocery store news
- Carlie C’s IGA recently closed its Garner location, The News & Observer previously reported. The chain has nearly three dozen stores across the Carolinas. News of the Garner store’s closure came just months after the Carlie C’s on College Street in Clinton shut down.
- Aldi, a German grocer, will build a new store in Clayton. It will be the second Aldi in Johnston County.
This story was originally published May 21, 2024 at 7:00 AM with the headline "Food Lion expands grocery pickup to 9 NC stores, including 4 Triangle locations."
