July 27th, 2006 by Atomictumor
OK, we all know that Food City has run Bi-Lo out of town, and is taking over their store in Manhattan Place in much the same way that insects will inject their eggs into the living bodies of other insects for them to grow in a nutritious environment. Now, I was wondering what Food City will be doing with three stores, so I figured my beloved east end would lose its store (along with damn near every other business open out here), but I learned differently after talking to a Food City spokesman (as he was putting meat out).
Turns out, Food City is closing both stores in favor of the Bi-Lo. Stay with me now. Food City has a smallish east end store, on the turnpike, and a biggish downtownish store on S. Illinois, and now the Bi-Lo. The Bi-Lo, evidently, has less square footage than the smaller east end store.
So why the hell are they doing it? Not only is the Bi-Lo smaller, its at a lousy location, with a parking lot designed by a drunk monkey that has lousy entrances and exits. The beer selection (currently as good as Krogers) will no doubt suffer with the space constraints, forcing me to either shop at Kroger, which I really don’t want to have to do, or drive way the hell out to Ingles, which I don’t want to have to do either. Grr.�
July 27th, 2006 at 10:06 am
Now, I’ll imagine little cartoon monkeys building parking lots, bathroom stalls and other stupidly designed places. “Looks like the monkeys built this.”
July 27th, 2006 at 10:13 am
Maybe we can talk Fresh Market into buying one of those soon to be empty grocery store buildings. Oak Ridge needs a quality grocery store instead these over grown convience stores.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:25 am
HELL yes. That’d be freakin sweet.
July 27th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Love the monkey cartoon.
Disappointing to hear that the East and West Food City stores are closing. Seems a bit silly to me - they’re making their customer base drive farther for a lesser store with a really crappy parking lot?
And yes, a Fresh Market or Earth Fare would be fantastic in Oak Ridge.
July 27th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
That, or an Earthfare or something. Damn. Eaves, I’m putting you in charge of getting that done.
July 27th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
I would totally not mind an Earth Fare, Fresh Market, or some other hippie-infested organic-obsessed place. They always have the best beer.
July 29th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
ZOMGZ…. $31 for a bag of organically grown, non-genetically altered cheetos, while the sweet sweet scents of patchouli and body odor waft by on the gentle summer breeze. The mere notion of it is making me weak-kneed.
7th comment FTW!~~
kthanxbai
July 29th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Ah yes, the hippy conundrum…
I find that riffraff tend to repel hippys, so I like to put on my torn Milk and Cheese t-shirt before heading in there. The organic stuff, well, if its worth it, then its worth it. My entire thinking is the typically bitchin beer selection. I mean, if they opened an Earthfare Beer store, dude, that’d be what its all about.
Earthfares the only place to get stuff like Left Hand beers. Kroger did start selling Rogue beers, which is great, but they do it for 10.50 a six pack, which is robbery.
I’m a beer snob, yes.
July 29th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
“Ah yes, the hippy conundrum . . . “
Hippie.