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Please tell me where you live in NC. We are looking to relocate and your town sounds so nice. Thanx. Lynn
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Originally Posted by luckydog
silverwing...never thought about that, but it seems an obvious result to me now & a good one!
BTW, my small eastern NC town (a historic town) banned wally world, and all big boxes. The independent business owners practically linked hands & stood in the road...wally world has aggressively expressed interest here multiple times, but the local backlash was tremendous & loud...NO! Shopping locally is heavily promoted & advertised here. I do so as much as possible, though it's not as cheap as big boxes, for the principle of it...but still travel the 30 miles to Walmart, in a neighboring city, when I sometimes need to.
This town has a functioning, prosperous mayberry type downtown, that's just as alive now, as it ever was. This town is more of the exception.
Most eastern NC towns have them, popular in their yesteryears, but badly deteriorated & devoid now of the activity they once enjoyed...I guess due to the alternative of big boxes in large part.
They also recently decided some time back that anyone else national, chain, franchise, etc locating here must follow aethestic architectural guidelines they have established to preserve the historical look/feel of the town...some talk of making the ones already here have to refacade their buildings.
Anyhoo...the people here realized what they had, & that it was special, & that they would surely lose that, if they opened the door & invited wally & his friends to lunch. It's refreshing. And the tourists love it & the town relys on tourism substantially. So for now, if I need something I pop in to the hardware store downtown & they greet me, by name, ask me what I need, escort me to it, carry it for me to the counter, I pay & they thank me warmly, and then they give my daughter a sucker.
Just a sidenote, for smiles ...
this is my husband's hometown & I was not very familiar with it when we were first married. In fact, I didn't know his parents very well either, as we met & married in a year's time, and we were living far away. Before the wedding his mom called & said I HAD to do a wedding registry at the dang hardware store! She was insistent. I thought she was crackers & I was very resistent! I mean c'mon, a hardware store in a little town wasn't going to have my stuff.
We came for a visit & she took me there. I was used to entering businesses that had operated for a 100 years, by the same families, by virtue of having grown up in eastern NC, but I was shocked when I entered this store.
They had everything imagineable from lawn mowers to *****s, TV's & electronics (have a radio shack in there). Another "store" adjoining them, but within, encompasses an enormous line of crystal, stainless & sterling, & china, plus a huge line of giftware, jewelry, linens, etc. Then yet another store of theirs adjoins & is a complete craft store, with everything from silk flowers & ribbons, to scrapbooking...& everything for your kid's school projects.
Everyone here patronizes local stores for births, wedding & graduations almost exclusively. I received almost all of my complete registered service from that hardware store alone. I was astounded. They've done a great job here ...trying hard to supply what we need/want to promote keeping our dollars in our town.
And I love my daughter gets to experience this town...just as it was when her great grandparents were here. I take her to the same lunch counters my husband sat at, as a boy...to eat off the same menus (gotta have a vanilla coke, cherry coke, or fresh squeezed orangeade, with a grilled cheese, & then a thick shake, or ice cream) with the same cash register, counter & stools... & the same dang lady waiting on you still...and it's still for just about the same prices...that's priceless to me. And I'll be insisting she register her china at the same hardware store one day...I can only hope.
I'm new to this forum so bear with me if I'm not doing it right. We (my husband and I) moved to greater Charleston, SC area, meaning we live in the bedroom community of Goose Creek, 2 years ago, without doing our research. We had visited Charleston, thought it was beautiful, so moved here. It isn't all that, at least not for us. It isn't Virginia, where we came from and should've stayed. If you're from Virginia you will know what I mean. Your town sounds like what we are looking for. Would you divulge the name of your town. At least, we could visit there. Love your hardware store story. Lynn
Since I moved from MA....I love this store to buy items such as bread, sausage, and canned tomatoes
Dont' laugh but the Harris Teeter just don't cut it for having products I used to get back home so easily
Harris Teeter is great grocery store but pricey. OH and Lowe's has boar's head deli meats....
The deli meat at Harris Teeter is SO expensive compared to back home.
Yeah I know what you mean, we just moved to Greenville, Nc from Iowa and found lowes and man their quality is so much better than the others we had back home for sure.
there are a few BiLo's within an hour or two from here, haven't been to one yet as when I'm in their area I'm usually on the way to an appointment
we also have Ingles locally and they are a nice alternative but still a bit pricey for my current income so....
although I detest doing so I do most of my shopping at ....... wal-mart
they are ok for other things like meds and cat litter etc... but produce and meats I do prefer to do else where ... and there are things they just plain don't carry -- but as you say sometimes convenience is hard to beat - being on the road from 6am to 9pm many week days it is hard to argue with a store that is open 24/7
I just posted this on the Waxhaw thread. Lowe's is great. We didn't have them in Oklahoma- there it is all Albertsons, Reasors, WalMart, or SuperTarget. Why are there no SuperTargets here??
I have been wondering...is this Lowe's connected to the Lowes Home Improvement stores?
I live in cary nc and have 2 super targets within 3 miles of my house.
And no Lowes Foods is not related to Lowes home improvements. Lowes is native to NC[Im pretty sure] and lowes home improvement is more nationwide.
I live in cary nc and have 2 super targets within 3 miles of my house.
And no Lowe's Foods is not related to Lowes home improvements. Lows is native to NC[Im pretty sure] and lowes home improvement is more nationwide.
They are both NC native retailers with Lowe's hardware based formerly in Wilkesboro (now in Mooresville) and Lowe's food in Winston-Salem (though it also originated in Wilkesboro).
I can't find a direct cite; I'm pretty sure I read this a few years ago; but the retailers were actually family-related a number of generations ago - cousins, brothers, something.
also lowes is owned by alex lee holding co the also own mdi merchant distributers inc they also supply ingles grocery stores and a lot of piggly wigglys and independant stores and also ifh instiotional foodhouse supplier to resturants and mil bases and prisions and others
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She was insistent. I thought she was crackers & I was very resistent! I mean c'mon, a hardware store in a little town wasn't going to have my stuff.
Where in NC
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