how many food lion stores are there
In this year's ranking, Giant was joined in the top 10 by such nontraditional food retailers as Wal-Mart, Rite Aid, CVS and Target. Food Lion, which ranked 11th in the Baltimore area, has about 79 stores in Maryland, with about 40 to 50 employees per store.
With 45 stores around Central Virginia, Food Lion is one of the Richmond-area's largest employers with nearly 4,000 full time employees, according to reporting in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Home: Brussels. 2014 annual sales: $23.9 billion. U.S. assets: Food Lion, based in Salisbury, N.C., operates 1,100 stores across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast from Delaware to Georgia, and Hannaford, based in Scarborough, Maine, operates 186 stores in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont.