Byrd's

Byrd's (officially Byrd's Food Stores) was a

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based in

Burlington, North Carolina Burlington is a city in Alamance County, North Carolina, Alamance and Guilford County, North Carolina, Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the principal city of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Are ...

. It was a family owned and operated company by the Byrd family of Burlington. Operating mainly in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of

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and Southside Virginia, the chain was sold and became

Lowes Foods Lowes Foods is an American supermarket chain based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The chain initially grew in the mountains of North Carolina and rural areas of Virginia, but, starting in the late 1990s, it expanded in metropolitan areas of ...

in 1997 after establishing 43 stores. Defunct supermarkets of the United States Companies based in North Carolina Defunct companies based in North Carolina {{US-retail-company-stub