Food Lion

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, while checking out at Food Lion, a little boy pointed excitedly at the cashier’s screen and whispered, ‘Mom, look! The tomatoes are talking!’ The cashier smiled gently and replied, 'They do that sometimes, honey.' Mom nodded knowingly, as if she’d seen it before. Later that day, when asked about her shopping trip, she quipped, 'I think I'll never look at canned beans the same way again!'

2. In an ordinary aisle of Food Lion, a regular noticed something peculiar in one of the shopping carts. Among cans and boxes, nestled between bananas and bread, lay a small, dusty teddy bear with mismatched buttons for eyes. Curious, the shopper picked up the bear and noticed its tag: ‘Free to Good Home.’ A delivery driver passing by overheard the commotion and joked, ‘Looks like someone forgot their mascot!’ Soon enough, the bear found itself adopted by a neighbor who named it ‘Banana Benny’—now a permanent fixture among the store’s produce section.

3. In the dairy section of Food Lion, a delivery driver noticed something odd nestled among the milk cartons. Curious, he picked it up—it was a tiny plastic dinosaur, its tail stuck between two containers. As he held it, the dinosaur’s eyes seemed to blink, and suddenly it started humming an old folk tune. Startled, the driver placed it back but found his coworkers whispering about ‘the singing dino’ in the break room. From then on, whenever someone forgot something in the dairy aisle, everyone joked that maybe the little guy just wanted another milkshake.

4. One day, while browsing the canned goods section at Food Lion, a customer overheard two employees whispering about a strange noise coming from the backroom. Curious, they followed the sound and found an old radio hidden behind boxes of beans. It was playing an endless loop of someone humming ‘I’m a Little Teapot.’ Since then, whenever anyone asks about it, employees just smile and say, ‘Oh, that’s just our little store mascot.’