Food Lion is top cat in area grocery market share

The Food Lion Group, which includes Bloom and Bottom Dollar, once again heads the pack in grocery market share for the Fredericksburg region.

But that doesn’t mean it’s the top cat in every county in our region, according to the Food World magazine’s 2011 market share study.

Here’s a list  of the market leaders by locality, along with their sales figures and percentage of the market. Please note that Food World combined Fredericksburg with Spotsylvania County:

Caroline County: Food Lion, $14.3 million, 79 percent

Culpeper County: Carlisle, Pa.-based Giant Food, which trades as Martin’s in Virginia, $33.2 million, $26.28 percent

King George County: Food Lion, $22.5 million, 52.57 percent

Orange County: Food Lion, $30.2 million, 45.62 percent

Spotsylvania County: Walmart, $122.3 million, 18.54 percent

Stafford County: Landover, Md.-based Giant Food  $101.2 million, 34.03 percent

Westmoreland County: Food Lion, $22.4 million, 48.80 percent

For a more complete story about Food World magazine’s 2011 market share study, please see my article in Thursday’s business section of The Free Lance-Star.

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