Target tries to fill void left by Food Lion

[CMF Newsman]

Local Target stores will raise their food offerings 40 percent by July.

The Highway 153 and Gunbarrel Road Targets will start offering hundreds of new items, including prepackaged produce, meat, bakery and deli products. The expanded selection will offer 90 percent of the food categories in SuperTarget stores.

In the wake of last week's announcement that Food Lion is closing more than two-thirds of its area supermarkets, the upscale discounter is trying to take a bigger bite of the grocery dollar. The expanded selections at Target will offer 90 percent of the food categories in SuperTarget stores.

The Hixson store started renovations in December and should finish by the end of March.

Read more: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jan/18/target-tries-to-fill-void-left-by-food-lion/

[Bob]

I just don't have "food" in my mind when I pull into a Target.. [shrug]

[Warkitty]

People didn't used to think "food" when they went to Walmart either.

[rstewart]

I don't know about locally but in Atlanta most of the Target stores are "Super Targets" with the Archer Farms Supermarket inside.

[daworm]

Some of the Target brands are very good. They also have some innovative packaging, especially their resealable chip bags and their cereal boxes with the flip up lid (no more pulling those stupid bags apart and spilling stuff everywhere). They also have a very good mushroom pasta dish.

[ohwell]

I do not want prepackaged. I do not want meat packaged in Mexico or China. I want local. There is no way in God's green earth that I will shop at WalMart, Target. or any other chain store that doesn't fit the bill of healthy, locally grown.