Food City is an American supermarket chain with stores located in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia.

It is owned by K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc., a privately held family and employee-owned corporation (13% via ESOP)[1] headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia.

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In 1989, Food City purchased the 37-store White Stores chain based out of Knoxville, Tennessee, more than doubling the size of the company.

In February 2006, Food City announced the purchase of eight BI-LO locations in Knoxville, Maryville, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

[14] In June 2020, K-VA-T announced that they were expanding into their fifth state with plans to construct a 54,000 square feet (5,000 m2) supermarket in Albertville, Alabama.

In August 2022, K-VA-T announced plans to acquire the Cooke’s family of stores in the Greater Cleveland, Tennessee, market area.

[17] In October 2013, K-VA-T officially consolidated its corporate operations into a new headquarters building in downtown Abingdon, Virginia, at 1 Food City Circle.

The four-story, 140,000 square feet (13,000 m2), facility sits on 17 acres and used parts of the old building in the construction of the new one, with the parking garage receiving renovations to continue its use.

[20] In June 2020, K-VA-T converted its older Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, location to their new Express by Food City format.

[28] In April 2022, K-VA-T announced plans to join the Ace Hardware family of stores by launching their line of Curt’s Ace Hardware stores and was evaluating Virginia locations in Abingdon and Bristol along with Piney Flats, Erwin, and Elizabethton, Tennessee in addition to Mize Farm & Garden Supply in Gray, Tennessee, which K-VA-T had recently acquired.

[33] Food City broke ground on two larger stores to serve as replacements for the Candies Creek and Ocoee Fresh n’ Low locations in June 2023.

Due to their charitable activities and strong ties to their local economies, Food City received Supermarket News's Community Service Award for 2008.

TGCSA selects one outstanding Tennessee retailer who exemplifies the high standards of integrity and efficiency upon which the organization was founded to be named Grocer of the Year.

[40] In 1992, Food City began working with the Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce and CSX Transportation to solicit donations of toys, candy, clothes and money for the Appalachia Santa Train, a 110-mile (180 km) trip through the Appalachian Mountains via train that distributes over 15 tons of gifts to children.

[41] K-VA-T holds a company-wide annual fundraising campaign where shoppers can make a contribution through the purchase of a JDRF "sneaker" at the checkout.

Food City purchases a great deal of their produce within their trade area, providing additional support to the regions in which they operate.

[43] Since 2011, K-VA-T and NASCAR Champion Richard Petty have teamed up to benefit the Paralyzed Veterans of America's Mission: ABLE campaign by collecting donation from shoppers totaling over $1.26 million.

[44][45] Since 1992, Food City stores have held the annual Race Against Hunger holiday campaign where shoppers can make a contribution at the checkout.

From its inception until 2007, the program allowed students to collect specially colored Food City register receipts in exchange for computers, software, sporting goods, calculators, teaching tools, audio/visual and other educational materials for their schools.

In 2007, the program went completely electronic, allowing customers to link their Food City loyalty cards to the particular school they wish to donate to.

[54] In September 2014, it was announced that Food City would be a presenting sponsor for the Battle at Bristol football game in 2016 between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Virginia Tech Hokies.