A large Food Lion warehouse and an auto parts factory operated by Standard Motor Parts are located along Highway 460 a few miles west of Disputanta.
Food Lion, an American grocery store chain headquartered in Salisbury, NC, and known as Food Town from 1957 to 1983
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Convenience Valet, Love's Travel Stops, Walmart, Costco, CDW, Food Lion, Rite Aid, Dairy Queen, IHOP, Sigma Chi, Delta Zeta, Domino Sugar, Phi Mu, Church's Chicken, Phi Delta Epsilon, Phi Kappa Theta, Zeta Beta Tau, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union, and Marriott Hotels are some of the corporate partners that support Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
In November, 2005, the Virginia Department of Rail and Public transportation provided an emergency funding for a bus route between Crewe and Blackstone in order to provide access to the Walmart, Food Lion, and other shops in Blackstone to those without other means of transportation.
Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart, Food Lion, Gordmans, and Winn-Dixie are firms that have implemented or championed EDLP.
Since the acquisition, Harveys and sister chain Food Lion have engaged in a number of synergies: over a dozen Food Lion stores have been converted to Harveys; Procurement, supply chain, and back office functions are now handled by Food Lion; and while Harveys management is still headquartered in Nashville, Georgia, they answer to Food Lion management in Salisbury, North Carolina.
The feature of the April 2005 Food Lion Auto Fair at the speedway was a popular sculpture exhibition, Jim Gary's Twentieth Century Dinosaurs.