Lowes Foods offered a five-cent discount per gallon of gas with each $100 spent inside the store (excl.

alcohol and gift card purchases) which was redeemable at Lowes Foods fuel stations or any participating Speedway or WilcoHess locations in North and South Carolina.

These closures were announced as part of a comprehensive growth strategy that would include rebranding all existing Lowes Foods stores by 2019 and entering into the Greenville, South Carolina market in 2016.

[14][15][16][17][18] In 2013, New CEO Tim Lowe had plans to change their experiences in their stores and wanted to invent a new concept for their locations that showed their "Carolina Roots".

During these workshops, Lowes Foods created a number of new concepts, including Chicken Kitchen, SausageWorks, Pick & Prep, and the Community[19] In early 2014, Lowes Foods remodeled their location in Clemmons, North Carolina, a suburb of Winston-Salem, North Carolina where the headquarters is located.

The company completed most of the rest of the Forsyth County locations including some stores in the Triangle Region of North Carolina .

In July 2019, the closures of three stores—two in the Hickory, North Carolina-area, as well as the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, location on Cipriana Drive, was announced.

[20] Lowes Foods, Just $ave, KJ's Market, and corporate-owned IGA Southeast locations are considered "stores".