Food Lion was at the center of a landmark legal case in the 1990s, when two ABC News producers submitted false job applications and were hired at its stores in North and South Carolina. They secretly filmed practices in the meat departments, and ABC's "Primetime Live" broadcast a segment ...
Founder Jim Read sold surplus military food at discount prices inthe first storehe opened in San Francisco in 1946. Today, the chain—based in Emeryville, California—has more than 400 stores across the country and draws over 1.5 million shoppers each week. Since1973, some stores have been run...