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Food City is an American supermarket chain with stores located in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. It is owned by K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. Full Circle”, “Paws Happy Life”, “Simply Done”, “Wide Awake Coffee Co. A Food City location in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Piggly Wiggly store in Grundy, Virginia, with the help of three special stockholders: his father, Curtis Smith, uncle, Earl Smith and cousin, Ernest Smith. 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. Three years later, in October 2008, K-VA-T opened its 100th store in Rogersville, Tennessee. 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 market as well as eight BI-LO stores in Northern Georgia from Southeastern Grocers. In November 2017, Food City opened its first in-store Starbucks in a newly built location in Athens, Tennessee. As of November 2021, the company operates 32 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. The store opened on April 14, 2021. K-VA-T’s corporate operations were located in Grundy, Virginia, from its inception in 1955 until it moved to Abingdon, Virginia, 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.
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. 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. In 2008, K-VA-T opened its first limited-assortment grocery store named Super Dollar Discount Foods in Wytheville, Virginia, which was later demolished in 2020 to make way for a new Food City location. In June 2020, K-VA-T converted its older Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, location to their new Express by Food City format. Spirits liquor store, in Pikeville, Kentucky.
Spirits opened in Louisa, Kentucky in August 2015. 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. 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. K-VA-T had converted their Sweetwater, Tennessee, location into Valu Foods, a discount warehouse store. K-VA-T closed one of its two Sevierville, Tennessee, 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. Due to their charitable activities and strong ties to their local economies, Food City received Supermarket News’s Community Service Award for 2008. Convenience Store Association during their annual convention.