Food Lion Celebrates Teachers With 5% Discount on Teacher Appreciation Day, Tuesday, May 3, in Select Markets

Food Lion is celebrating teachers in select markets including the greater Wilmington, Greenville, Raleigh, and Charlotte, N.C., markets by offering teachers a 5 percent discount on their total purchase in nearly 400 stores on Teacher Appreciation Day, Tuesday, May 3.

"Food Lion is proud to give back to our communities by celebrating our local teachers on Teacher Appreciation Day," said Greg Finchum, senior vice president of retail operations at Food Lion. "Every day, our teachers in our communities invest in our students' learning and growth, and this is Food Lion's way of saying thank you to our teachers to show our support for the work they do every day to educate our future neighbors, associates and community leaders."

A full list of participating stores is available here. To receive the discount, teachers need to simply show a teacher ID at checkout.

This offer is valid on Tuesday, May 3, only. The discount does not apply to the purchase of alcohol, tobacco, gift cards, lottery, postage stamps or services.

Food Lion is proud to work with local teachers and schools in the communities it serves throughout the year. The grocer regularly hosts Food Lion Feeds Family Math Nights in its stores to help educate students and their families about how to make healthy choices in the grocery stores, on any budget, and engages in numerous donations at schools to provide fresh produce and other healthy items to students and their families struggling with hunger.

About Food Lion

Food Lion, based in Salisbury, N.C., since 1957, has more than 1,100 stores in 10 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states and employs more than 65,000 associates. By leveraging its longstanding heritage of low prices and convenient locations, Food Lion is working to own the easiest full shop grocery experience in the Southeast, anchored by a strong commitment to affordability, freshness and the communities it serves. Through Food Lion Feeds, the company has committed to provide 500 million meals to individuals and families in need by the end of 2020. Food Lion is a company of Delhaize America, the U.S. division of Brussels-based Delhaize Group (NYSE: DEG). For more information, visit www.foodlion.com.  

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Related Materials:

teacher_appreciation_Store_List_with_Addresses.pdf (176.45 KB)

Contact:

Courtney James: 704-310-3768; Courtney.james@foodlion.com; Christy Phillips-Brown: 704-310-2221; cphillips-brown@foodlion.com