Greensboring :: Outside The Media. Beyond The News.

The Lions Tail: Food Lion's logo forms a S as in Savings. It's also apart of the original name of the grocery store where Food Town was co-branded with Save-Rite. It's been suggested it also stands for Savior as in Jesus.

Grand Opening: Four months after a few friends begged their relatives for money, they opened Food Town in 1957. There you could purchase salt for 10 cents, butter for 49 cents.

Name Change By 1967, Food Lion had lost it's right to the Food Lion trademark. The stores were simply branded as Food Town, replacing the lion logo with a shopping cart. It was during this time they began the slogan for lowest prices. They added this to their sign with arrows and the letters LFPINC (Lowest Food Prices in NC). Some suggest it's true meaning is "Lion's First Prophet in North Carolina" which is common references to God's only son = Jesus.

The Return of the Lion By 1974 Delhaize, a Belgium supermarket acquires Food Town. They purchase the rights to the Food Lion trademark, and re-brand the low cost supermarket as "Food Lion" returning the Food Lion Logo back to it's original place, minus the save-rite logo. It's been suggested that this was the "deal maker" with the return of the Lion to the companies image.

The Return of Babalon Why the return of the Lion symbol? Some suggest because of Delhaize's full name: Delhaize le Leon, while others suggest a deeper meaning based on it's almost identical symbolism to Babylonian and Egyptian symbols. Could it be the lion in the Food Lion symbol stands for God? Christian's often have used the lion to represent God. (Think Chronicles of Narnija.) A secret symbol to the masses of people in one of the most religious places on earth that this isn't Food Lion, but "Food Christ" or atleast a place Christian's would want to shop?

Bleach the Beef By the 90's, an ABC investigative report revealed the use of bleach to maintain out-of-date beef products, increase revenue and sell to the public. The claims were later fought in court, while the allegations caused several stores to close.

Where's the Beef?: Despite Requests, Food Lion has never sold Lion Meat.

Different Strokes for Different Folks By 2004, in answer to it's competitors more wealthy clientele they create Bloom, in wealthier markets like Charlotte, NC. Lower wealth demographic receive a low-cost version of Food Lion the following Year with a store called "Bottom Dollar". These appeared in cities like High Point, NC, & Greensboro, NC by 2005. In a 2006 renovation attempt that was cut short from falling stock prices, Food Lion remodeled several Food Lions with concave isles and checkerboard checkouts to appeal to their Nascar base.

The Future:It's been rumored Delhaize has merely been preparing for a "Flip this house" approach to Food Lion, possibly selling it to the highest bidder after renovations.

where did you get all these religious secrets?

Umm... Christians.

Liv wrote:Umm... Christians.

fess up... which web site? Chain letter e-mail?

That looks like a common Lion Passant, as found on England's coat of arms - which don't stand for Super Saver Saturdays

OMG, she cracked the code!!! Watch out for the Priory of the Groceries and the Tiger Templar!

But on that note, I have never understood the name of the damn place. "Food Lion" ...c'mon, what the heck is that supposed to MEAN anyway? It sells lion food?

The world's best grocery chain name?

Overwaitea



None of that lean cuisine there.

How about the grocery chained named "Piggly Wiggly".

http://www.pigglywiggly.com



Of course Liv will say it was started by evil Christians trying to snub the Muslims because of the anti-pork thing they have.

Sanjuro wrote:But on that note, I have never understood the name of the damn place. "Food Lion" ...c'mon, what the heck is that supposed to MEAN anyway? It sells lion food?

Seriously it's about the religious symbolism.

Matt wrote:Of course Liv will say it was started by evil Christians trying to snub the Muslims because of the anti-pork thing they have.

Actually I love Piggly Wiggly. There is one down in SIler City we sometimes stop in when we're down that way. Very eclectic grocery store.

Matt wrote:fess up... which web site? Chain letter e-mail?

Actually it comes directly from the employees who work there.

Tom Smith, the former president, was an avid big game hunter. Don't you remember his horrible commercials?

Liv wrote:

Matt wrote:fess up... which web site? Chain letter e-mail?

Actually it comes directly from the employees who work there.

And those employees....lethargic emo bag boys and social security grandparents are "in the know" when it comes to religious conspiracy...... ....

Dood! The truth is out there.... right between the romaine lettuce and the cilantro.

Liv wrote:Dood! The truth is out there.... right between the romaine lettuce and the cilantro.

I should know better, but I'm going to ask the meat cdude for a special "cut" of the truth and any spare bones for my dog....wish me luck. I bet they have a secret handshake...

Got some insider information a few days ago from a Food Lion employee. (no, no one in this house.) Interestingly enough it's probably valid at about any grocery store, but we were given the knowledge that it does happen at atleast one, which is under review by the state's weights and measures group. It's really quite interesting, and I'm surprised I never thought of it.

You know those prepackaged weighted and labeled fruits and vegetables at your grocery store? They come into the store, they're weighed and based on the current price, are given an adhesive label to the outside of the bag so you can buy them with ease. A great example of this is often the grapes.

So here comes along Mr Grocer who notices a few "bad grapes" in the bag of fruit, and removes the bad ones so he can sell the bag and make his fruit isle look nice. It's at this point, produce-boy/girl is supposed to re-weigh and re-label the bag with the appropriate weight. But produce-kid only gets paid $6.75 per hour, and doesn't feel like he wants to accomplish much in his long-term career goals at Food Lion, and accidentally neglects that step.

This is when "we" the customer comes in to Food Lion and unsuspectingly purchases the mis-marked bag of fruit and pays in excess what we should. I'm guessing at this point, everyone who's read this far will begin weighing their pre-weighed fruit.

So here's the deal. You go to the store, buy that lovely frozen pizza your kids have been wanting all week, toss it in the oven, and present it to your family for a safe, maybe even healthy meal at home. (go with me here.) What would seem like a normal and relatively routine event turns to horror as your family members become sick one by one, and your children die. Why though?

Let's back up. You bought that pizza from a grocery store. Grocers tend to have two policies. One in which they throw away returned food, the other in which food items are restocked and sold to the public. The problem in the later is tampering. The food could have been been mishandled, or there could be some sort of more malicious activity whereby chemicals, or materials are added into the foods and packaging and re-sold to the public at full price, with you none the wiser till you choke on that giant rat poison, razor blade, or heroin needle. (okay that may be a bit overboard but) That's how it's being played. It's happened several time in the past in fact, even with Food Lion itself:

RALEIGH, N.C. — Raleigh police have arrested a man in connection with a food-tampering case at a local grocery store.

Nearly two weeks ago, workers at the Food Lion at 3415 Avent Ferry Road called police after they noticed a man acting suspicious in the meat section of the store.

"It appeared the subject may have pierced a package of meat or torn into a package of meat and had some type of syringe in his hand," said Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue. via

One particular grocer known as Food Lion was a part of a undercover media investigation that resulted in several purposely manipulated food products, being re-sealed and re-sold to customers. Apparently they're not the only ones either. The investigation has caused the company to re-examine their policies on returned food and products.

Bon Apetite.

Ugh.... Ironically, I was just at that particular Food Lion 10 minutes ago buying lunch meat.

But then I looked a the article and saw that it was from 2006. Whew!

Well technically there is a news segment which may air this week from what I'm told where products were purposely tampered and tracked as a part of an investigation. Supposedly it's certainty of airing isn't 100% confirmed yet, and I'm not sure what outlet is doing it... but it is/did happen. Supposedly everything is changing as of last weekend.