Contributor Post: Food Lion #722, Manchester, TN

Today's special post comes to the blog courtesy of flickr user and new Mid-South Retail Blog contributor jaxcrodian. (You can visit his flickr photostream by clicking his username.) The store he has photographed for us today is, in his words, "Food Lion #722. Located at 944 Hillsboro Blvd, Manchester, TN 37355, this is a typical 1990's built Food Lion store." Unfortunately, neither of us was able to find an exact opening year for this store. Manchester, Tennessee, in case any of you are wondering, is "the county seat of Coffee County...located halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga on Interstate 24," according to Wikipedia.

First up, an overview of the store's exterior. jaxcrodian writes, "The outside of this Food Lion. This store just got an outside repaint."

"We are now entering this Food Lion!"

For our first interior photo, "The store's produce department." This particular décor package, according to my good friend AFB's self-titled Albertsons Florida Blog, "debuted in 2005, and was used in a large number of remodels through the early 2010s." With that in mind, unfortunately I don't have any way of knowing just when this Manchester store was remodeled to this décor, nor do I know what décor it would have had originally. If any of you know or have any ideas, please let us know in the comments!

"Aisle 9 in this store" is the focus of our next photo. The aisle signs in particular caught my attention here. I don't believe I've ever seen an aisle sign split into two halves like this before. Typically, as you're likely aware, there will be a singular aisle sign per aisle, centered above the aisle's walkway. In this store, however, the aisle signs appear to be hung even with each aisle's shelving, effectively giving each aisle two signs. It's a good enough idea, in my opinion, because this way the signs are allowed to specify which side of the aisle a particular item is located on. But the execution seems to be rather poor, in that it looks to be kinda difficult to actually see the signs beyond the aisle endcaps.

Up at the front end of the store, jaxcrodian notes that this is "The checkout area, with a total of 6 lanes (5 regular, 1 express)." I personally haven't been in a Food Lion store in (what feels like) eons. The wooden pergola-type fixture above the checkouts is a neat feature!

Finally, as we exit the store, we have here a look at the sign that reads, "Thank you for shopping Food Lion! That concludes our look at a Food Lion store!"

Thanks again to jaxcrodian for sharing these pictures and captions with the Mid-South Retail Blog, and if any of you have any information to add to help bolster our knowledge about this Food Lion store, please don't hesitate to drop a line in the comments below! Until next time, have fun exploring the retail world wherever you are!

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