NC: SC: Lowes Foods to Open Four Stores in N.C. and S.C.

Winston-Salem-based Lowes Foods plans to open four stores in North Carolina and South Carolina—in Concord, Kannapolis and Waxhaw in North Carolina, and in Indian Land, S.C. The company has three Charlotte-area locations in Mooresville, Harrisburg and Huntersville. 

The Concord location is expected to open in the fall, company spokesman Scott Carpenter said. The other sites will open over the next two years. The store in Waxhaw will be at The Shops at Prescot Village, a 100-acre mixed-use development.

Lowes Foods also said it will open a store in Lexington, S.C. Other previously announced stores are in Winterville, N.C., Aiken and Summerville in S.C., and Marble Hill, Georgia. The latter store is expected to open this summer, reports the Charlotte Observer.

“We are entering a period of growth for Lowes Foods as we move into Georgia and continue to expand within our footprint in North and South Carolina,” Tim Lowe, Lowes Foods president and head of retail for parent company Alex Lee said in a statement recently.

The 67-year-old company has nearly 9,000 employees at 80 Lowes Foods supermarkets in the Carolinas. Lowes Foods is a subsidiary of Alex Lee, based in Hickory.