Food City is an American
supermarket chain
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with stores located in
Alabama
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,
Georgia
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Kentucky
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,
Tennessee
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, and
Virginia
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. It is owned by K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc., a privately held family and employee-owned corporation (13% via
ESOP)
headquartered in
Abingdon, Virginia
Abingdon is a town in Washington County, Virginia, United States, southwest of Roanoke. The population was 8,376 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. The town encompasses several historically significant sites and f ...
. K-VA-T Food Stores owns the Food City Distribution Center (formerly Mid-Mountain Foods), a distribution center K-VA-T helped form in 1974 and acquired full control of in 1998, Misty Mountain Spring Water, LLC, a producer of
bottled water
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, as well as limited-assortment grocery stores named Super Dollar Food Center, Food City Express and Gas'N Go convenience stores, and Food City Wine and Spirits liquor stores. Many of their grocery stores have their own fuel stations, with the Gas'N Go branding.
It offers many private label product choices under the brands "Food Club," "TopCare", "That's Smart!", "Food City Fresh!", "Full Circle", "Paws Happy Life", "Simply Done", "Wide Awake Coffee Co.", "Tippy Toes", "Harvest Club", "Evolve", "Over the Top", "Nostimo", "@ease", "CharKing", "Misty Mountain", "Flock's Finest", "b-lieve", "Culinary Tours", "Pure Harmony" and more, many of which are part of the
Topco corporate brand program. Food City is also the exclusive distributor of regional favorites such as "Kay's Ice Cream", "Moore's Classic Snacks", "Terry's Classic Snacks", "Kern's Bread", and "Lay Classic Meats".
History
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K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. traces its history to 1955, when company founder Jack Smith opened his first
Piggly Wiggly
Piggly Wiggly is an American supermarket chain operating in the American Southern and Midwestern regions run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers. Its first outlet opened in 1916 in Memphis, Tennessee, and is notable fo ...
store in
Grundy, Virginia
Grundy is a town in Buchanan County, Virginia, Buchanan County, Virginia, United States, an area located within the Appalachian Mountains region. It is the county seat of Buchanan County. The town is home to the Appalachian School of Law. The popu ...
, with the help of three special stockholders: his father, Curtis Smith, uncle, Earl Smith and cousin, Ernest Smith. In 1963, Smith added a second store in
South Williamson, Kentucky
South Williamson is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Appalachian Mountains of northeastern Pike County, Kentucky, United States, on the border with West Virginia. It is separated from Williamson, West Virginia by the Tug Fork River. The c ...
, followed by a newly constructed third location in
Pikeville, Kentucky, in 1965, and a store in
Prestonsburg, Kentucky, in 1967.
The company continued to grow steadily until 1984 when it acquired Quality Foods, a 19-store chain (founded in 1918), that operated under the Food City name. The Smiths adopted Food City as the new nameplate, along with its heritage, for all of their stores going forward. In 1989, Food City purchased the 37-store White Stores chain based out of Knoxville, Tennessee, more than doubling the size of the company.
In 1998, Food City acquired the 11-store Kennedy Piggly Wiggly chain as well as full control of Mid-Mountain Foods, the current Food City Distribution Center. The following year,
Winn-Dixie pulled out of the Knoxville market and sold their seven stores to Food City. In February 2006, Food City announced the purchase of eight
BI-LO locations in Knoxville,
Maryville, and
Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
K-VA-T celebrated its 50th anniversary November 17, 2005, by opening a store in
Vansant, Virginia, just outside Grundy. Three years later, in October 2008, K-VA-T opened its 100th store in
Rogersville, Tennessee
Rogersville is a town in, and the county seat of, Hawkins County, Tennessee, Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States. It was settled in 1775 by the grandparents of Davy Crockett. It is named for its founder, Joseph Rogers (pioneer), Joseph Roger ...
. The company celebrated this event by sending a special commemorative
I-beam
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to every store in the company where employees signed it as a goodwill gesture for the new store. The beam sits above the entrance way in the 100th store.
In December 2010, K-VA-T purchased Old Town Market in
Tazewell, Tennessee, as a replacement store for their
New Tazewell, Tennessee, location.
In July 2015, Food City announced the purchase of 21 BI-LO locations in the
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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market as well as eight BI-LO stores in Northern
Georgia
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from
Southeastern Grocers
Southeastern Grocers (formerly Bi-Lo Holdings) is a supermarket portfolio headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The portfolio was created by Lone Star Funds in September 2013 as the new parent company for Harveys, Winn-Dixie, and Fresco y M ...
. The company plans to invest over $40 million in capital improvements to the locations during the first year as well as install Gas'N Go fuel stations in as many locations as possible. K-VA-T reached a milestone in October 2015 by opening its first Georgia location, a converted BI-LO, in
Rossville, Georgia. That same month, K-VA-T opened a Food City in
Johnson City, Tennessee
Johnson City is a city in Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee, mostly in Washington County. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 71,046, making it the eighth largest city in Tennessee. Joh ...
, the largest store ever constructed by the company.
In November 2017, Food City opened its first in-store
Starbucks in a newly built location in
Athens, Tennessee
Athens is the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee, United States and the principal city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 53,569. The city is located almost equidistantly between the major cities of Knoxville an ...
. As of October 2022, the company operates 43 Starbucks in-store locations.
In February 2020, The National Grocers Association named K-VA-T Food Stores and Food City as Outstanding Marketer at the 2020 NGA Creative Choice Awards.
In June 2020, K-VA-T announced that they were expanding into their fifth state with plans to construct a supermarket in
Albertville, Alabama
Albertville is a city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 22,386. It is the largest city in Marshall County.
His ...
. The store opened on April 14, 2021.
In August 2022, K-VA-T announced plans to acquire the Cooke’s family of stores in the Greater
Cleveland, Tennessee, market area. These stores include four Fresh n’ Low locations and the Cooke's Food Store and Pharmacy in Tennessee along with one Fresh n’ Low location in Georgia.
Headquarters
K-VA-T's corporate operations were located in Grundy, Virginia, from its inception in 1955 until it moved to
Abingdon, Virginia
Abingdon is a town in Washington County, Virginia, United States, southwest of Roanoke. The population was 8,376 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. The town encompasses several historically significant sites and f ...
, in the 1970s. Over the course of the years, the company's operations were spread out over five different buildings throughout Abingdon and Washington County.
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In October 2013, K-VA-T officially consolidated its corporate operations into a new headquarters building in downtown Abingdon, Virginia, at 1 Food City Circle. The four-story, , facility sits on 17 acres and used parts of the old building in the construction of the new one, with the parking garage receiving renovations to continue its use.][Food City hosts tour, open house at new headquarters](_blank)
tricities.com November 21, 2013 In November 2017, K-VA-T donated their previous corporate office building in Abingdon to the Barter Theater
Barter Theatre, in Abingdon, Virginia, opened on June 10, 1933. It is the longest-running professional Equity theatre in the United States.
History
Concept
In 1933, when the United States was in the middle of the Great Depression, many peop ...
.
Super Dollar Food Center
In 2008, K-VA-T opened its first limited-assortment grocery store named Super Dollar Discount Foods in Wytheville, Virginia
Wytheville is a town in, and the county seat of, Wythe County, in southwestern Virginia, United States. It is named after George Wythe, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and mentor to Thomas Jefferson. Wytheville's populat ...
, which was later demolished in 2020 to make way for a new Food City location. Over the course of the years, the new format grew by opening up new locations and converting some older, smaller, Food City locations in Pikeville and Prestonsburg, Kentucky; Rogersville, Tennessee; and Grundy, Virginia. In May 2017, K-VA-T began re-branding the Super Dollar Discount Foods stores in Abingdon, Hillsville, and Wytheville, Virginia to the Super Dollar Food Center banner. Over the course of 2017, the rest of the Super Dollar Discount Foods locations were converted to this new banner. As of March 2022, there were 5 Super Dollar locations, with one having a Gas'N Go fuel station.
Express by Food City
In June 2020, K-VA-T converted its older Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Pigeon Forge is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 6,343. Situated just 5 miles (8 km) north of Great Smoky Mountains National Par ...
, location to their new Express by Food City format.
Fresh n’ Low/Cooke's Food Store & Pharmacy
In October 2022, K-VA-T began operations of four Fresh n’ Low locations and Cooke's Food Store and Pharmacy in Tennessee along with one Fresh n’ Low location in Georgia.
Food City Wine & Spirits
In August 2012, K-VA-T opened its first Food City Wine & Spirits liquor store
A liquor store is a retail shop that predominantly sells prepackaged liquors – typically in bottles – usually intended to be consumed off the store's premises. Depending on region and local idiom, they may also be called an off-licence (i ...
, in Pikeville, Kentucky. The company's second Food City Wine & Spirits opened in Louisa, Kentucky
Louisa is a home rule-class city located at the merger of the Levisa and Tug Forks into the Big Sandy River. It is located in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in the United States, and is the seat of its county. The population was 2,467 at the 2010 ...
in August 2015. A third location in Whitesburg, Kentucky
Whitesburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,139 at the 2010 census and an estimated 1,875 in 2018. It was named for C. White, a state politician.
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was added in May 2020 followed by a fourth location in Middlesboro, Kentucky
Middlesboro ()Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987p. 196 Accessed 26 August 2013. is a home rule-class city in Bell County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 10,334 at the 2010 U.S ...
in September 2021.
Convenience stores
In April 2012, after purchasing a former Exxon branded station in Coeburn, Virginia, K-VA-T opened its first Food City Express branded convenience store to complement their existing grocery store. In June 2014, K-VA-T opened a second location in a former RaceWay convenience store in Elizabethton, Tennessee
Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both t ...
, under their Gas'N Go branding. Another pair of Gas'N Go convenience store locations were constructed and opened in Morristown and Bristol
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, Tennessee, later in 2014. A fifth location was opened in Oliver Springs, Tennessee
Oliver Springs is a town in Anderson, Morgan, and Roane counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its population was 3,231 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Harriman, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Roane Coun ...
in July 2016.
Curt’s Ace Hardware
In April 2022, K-VA-T announced plans to join the Ace Hardware family of stores by launching their line of Curt’s Ace Hardware stores and was evaluating Virginia locations in Abingdon and Bristol along with Piney Flats, Erwin, and Elizabethton, Tennessee in addition to Mize Farm & Garden Supply in Gray, Tennessee
Gray is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washington County, Tennessee, United States and a rural suburb of Johnson City. It is part of the Johnson City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City– Kingsport&nda ...
, which K-VA-T had recently acquired. In June 2022, the first location opened in Bristol, Virginia.
Defunct banners
Oldtown Market
When K-VA-T acquired Quality Foods and adopted the Food City name in 1984, the Galax, Virginia, Piggly Wiggly location was renamed Oldtown Market. In 1989, Food City sold Oldtown Market to two of its retired management team members. This banner is not to be confused with the Old Town Market Tazewell, Tennessee, location that K-VA-T purchased and rebranded in 2010.
Valu Foods
K-VA-T had converted their Sweetwater, Tennessee
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, location into Valu Foods, a discount warehouse store
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. This location closed in 1999.
While It Lasts
K-VA-T closed one of its two Sevierville, Tennessee
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History
Native Americans of the Woodland period were among the first human ...
, locations in 2005, but it reopened this location a few months later under the While It Lasts banner. This location was used as a closeout store for the various products and brands from the Bi-Lo stores acquisition that were not carried in regular Food City locations. It closed in 2006.
Community involvement
Due to their charitable activities and strong ties to their local economies, Food City received Supermarket News's Community Service Award for 2008.
Steven C. Smith, president and chief executive officer for K-VA-T was named 2009 Grocer of the Year by the Tennessee Grocers & Convenience Store Association during their annual convention. TGCSA selects one outstanding Tennessee retailer who exemplifies the high standards of integrity and efficiency upon which the organization was founded to be named Grocer of the Year.
In February 2013, Food City received the Dale Carnegie Leadership Award which recognizes a commitment to excellent service and quality products; dedication to employee growth; recognition of employee value; and a sense of obligation which brings a high level of community involvement.
Animal shelters
Each year Food City hosts their Pet Hunger Drive. Shoppers are invited to purchase pre-packaged pet food bags for donation to local animal shelters. In 2017, the campaign raised a record-breaking $109,000 to benefit local animal shelters throughout the region.
CSX Santa Train
In 1992, Food City began working with the Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce and CSX Transportation to solicit donations of toys, candy, clothes and money for the Appalachia Santa Train, a trip through the Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, (french: Appalaches), are a system of mountains in eastern to northeastern North America. The Appalachians first formed roughly 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. They ...
via train that distributes over 15 tons of gifts to children. Food City's involvement has grown to the point where around 200 volunteers work on the project each year.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
K-VA-T holds a company-wide annual fundraising campaign where shoppers can make a contribution through the purchase of a JDRF "sneaker" at the checkout. 100% of the funds collected are donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. As of November 2018, Food City has donated over $1.878 million to JDRF.
Locally grown produce and eggs
Food City purchases a great deal of their produce within their trade area, providing additional support to the regions in which they operate. The company purchases an average of $6,000,000 in locally grown produce annually from a number of local farms, including those in Grainger, Blount, Hawkins, Unicoi, Jefferson and Sullivan counties in Tennessee; Scott and Carroll counties and through Appalachian Harvest co-op for locally grown organics from the growers in Scott County, Virginia. In July 2011, Food City announced that 95 percent of its eggs would come from Dutt & Wagner of Virginia, Inc., a family-operated egg business that produces and distributes its eggs from Abingdon, Virginia
Abingdon is a town in Washington County, Virginia, United States, southwest of Roanoke. The population was 8,376 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. The town encompasses several historically significant sites and f ...
. The remaining 5 percent of eggs are considered specialty products, such as Egg Beaters.
Mission: ABLE
Since 2011, K-VA-T and NASCAR Champion Richard Petty have teamed up to benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America's Mission: ABLE campaign by collecting donation from shoppers totaling over $1.26 million. 100% of the donations collected benefit local Paralyzed Veterans within the region.
Race Against Hunger
Since 1992, Food City stores have held the annual Race Against Hunger holiday campaign where shoppers can make a contribution at the checkout. The Race Against Hunger campaign raises over $350,000 annually for numerous hunger relief organizations throughout the region.
School Bucks
In 1990, Food City began their Apples for the Students program. From its inception until 2007, the program allowed students to collect specially colored Food City register receipts in exchange for computers, software, sporting goods, calculators, teaching tools, audio/visual and other educational materials for their schools. In 2007, the program went completely electronic, allowing customers to link their Food City loyalty cards to the particular school they wish to donate to. This advancement also allowed schools to check totals online. In 2009, Food City rebranded its Apples for the Students program as Food City School Bucks.
Since the program's inception, Food City has awarded $21.4 million to more than 1,000 schools.
Sports
Since 1988, Food City has been the official sponsor of the Tim Irwin
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He played college football at Tennessee and played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 years. Most of his professional career was with the ...
/Food City Bass Tournament held in Lenoir City, Tennessee
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. Proceeds from the tournament benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley and has raised over $1,000,000 since 1988.
Food City sponsors two NASCAR
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events at Bristol Motor Speedway
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, the NASCAR Cup Series' Food City Dirt Race
The Food City Dirt Race is an annual 250-lap, NASCAR Cup Series points race held at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. This is one of two NASCAR races held at Bristol, the other being the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race. It was th ...
in the spring and the late NASCAR Xfinity Series' Food City 300
The Food City 300 is a NASCAR Xfinity Series stock car race that takes place under the lights at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. It is held the night before the NASCAR Cup Series race the Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race
The Bass P ...
in the summer. The Food City deal, which began in 1992, is currently the second longest race entitlement sponsor deal in the Cup Series. As part of the renewal and the 20th anniversary announcement in 2011, following the death in 2010 of track President and General Manager Jeff Byrd, the 20th anniversary race was renamed the Jeff Byrd 500 presented by Food City. The 2015 race was renamed the Food City 500 In Support Of Steve Byrnes And Stand Up To Cancer, while the 2020 race was renamed Food City Presents the Supermarket Heroes 500 to honor front-line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Along with these races, Food City holds the Food City Family Race Nights in Knoxville and Bristol
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, Tennessee
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, the week preceding the NASCAR events.
In 1995, Food City signed on as a sponsor of Dale Earnhardt's No. 3 Winston Cup Series Chevrolet race car. They renewed the sponsorship in 1997 for two more years with a bonus sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Ralph Dale Earnhardt Jr. (born October 10, 1974) is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, team owner, author, and an analyst for '' NASCAR on NBC''. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving ...
's Busch Series Chevrolet race car. The Food City/Earnhardt combination captured seven series wins and the 1998 championship during the sponsorship deal.
From 2005 to 2007, Food City also sponsored the former Hooters Pro Cup
The CARS Solid Rock Carriers Tour (formerly known as the USARacing Pro Cup Series, USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series, CARS Pro Cup Series, Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series, CARS X1-R Pro Cup Series) is a stock car auto racing series in the United States. It is s ...
event at Bristol Motor Speedway, the Food City 150.
Prior to 2010, Food City was a primary sponsor of the Web.com Tour
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Knoxville Open golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
tournament in Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state' ...
, which benefited several charities.
In September 2014, it was announced that Food City would be a presenting sponsor for the Battle at Bristol
The Battle at Bristol was an American college football game played at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee on Saturday, September 10, 2016, between the University of Tennessee Volunteers and the Virginia Tech Hokies. It holds the recor ...
football game in 2016 between the Tennessee Volunteers
The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 20 male and female varsity intercollegiate athletics programs that represent the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers compete in Division I of the National Collegi ...
and the Virginia Tech Hokies
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. In September 2016, Bristol Motor Speedway announced that Food City signed on as the title sponsor of the "Bucs at Bristol" football game between the ETSU Buccaneers and the Western Carolina Catamounts. The Bucs at Bristol game was the first Southern Conference
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home game for ETSU since 2003 when the school disbanded their football program.
Locations
As of October 2022, K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. operates 153 retail outlets (132 Food City stores, 6 Super Dollar Food Centers, 4 Wine & Spirits stores, 5 Fresh n' Lows, 1 Cooke's Food Store and Pharmacy, and 5 convenience stores) in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. The chain includes over 114 in-store pharmacies and over 100 fuel stations.
References
External links
Food City's official website
Super Dollar Food Center official website
Misty Mountain Spring Water's official website
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American companies established in 1955
Retail companies established in 1955
Economy of the Southeastern United States
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