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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Americans have a weird quirk with preferring "local" grocery stores but not bothering to look up who actually owns their grocery store. So the majority of "local" chains are just regional Kroger brands or in this case Food Lion is the southern equivalent of Dutch Delhaize

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Look, when Food Lion came to place I lived in the 80s, I didn't have the ability to just google why that weird looking lion was in the name. But you do. They acquired an American chain called Food Town and later wanted to expand into an area that already had Food Towns. They thought to use the lion to distinguish themselves from the other stores and one of the original founders realized it wouldn't be too expensive to just change the Town to Lion, so they did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for explaining, I always find it weird why they rebrand instead of making their name global but I guess it makes sense if the market wants it that way.

Same with takeaway being called grub hub, loved that one when I found out 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's not the same as takeaway at all. Like at all at all.

GrubHub and takeaway were two entirely separate companies that merged.

The names were already in use at the same time and had nothing to do with each other before that.

They aren't regional variants.