Food Lion — Local services in Avon

It was more accessible to shop before the vacationers arrived, after the sanction was lifted, it appears the mighty dollar is more important than a life or 2, 3..100s. I say this not to insult the local hard working people who work here, who cannot control what the Avon, NC Food Lion allows.. for I am a native of Kinnakeet who lives on the north side now, and so I see the difference in the Food Lions North of Hatteras Island..I did not want my mother who is older now with several health conditions to shop here, but she has no choice and is limited to getting off to shop elsewhere.. I saw myself it has to many people in the store at one time shopping, ( as many as any other summer) I saw some without face coverings,(or having them pulled down,isn't the point of wearing them to keep them on?? ) it did not have the alcohol wipe down cloths stocked to wipe your cart, and that really makes you want to touch a cart after it's been handled by ?? it appears that the "foreign students " are working again, the cashier waiting on my mother, well customer service wasn't her best trait, being ignored and grunted at isn't my idea of "Friendly Customer Service "..obviously she wasn't trained , also workers checking out customers, could you consider that ignoring a customer, or speaking to friends in other checkout lines may not be the best idea, and I'm sorry you must hate working here, but throwing groceries into bags to break open, or when I take time to separate cold items and there all bagged into different bags mixed up. Come on now, whats that for? I'm still not sure how there can be so many workers who appear obviously to be students here? Especially since the Food Lions North of the Outer Banks are abiding to the Careful Shopping Measures and I have not seen student workers, or employees that are not local, they also offer order and pickup services which is wonderful, especially for myself as a multi heart valve recipient who has to be very careful to not catch anything, and especially not the Covid 19 * which appears much more rampant on Hatteras Island. Wonder why?? I hate to ramble on, but if you care for your year long shoppers that keep you in business you really should consider at the least 'offering shop online and pickup'.. there is people here who are elderly, health conditions and cant afford to get sick. I hope next time I am forced to take a loved one in here to shop I see some better rules in effect, until then, shop at your own risk, wear throw away gloves, bring your own sanitizer and keep mask on ..for those who say I'm exaggerating well I've already had some close to me who Has Had the Covid" and it's still affecting them, so save the insults, be smart, use common sense. And again shop safe,* a additional review, as of today. 7/28/20 the only thing I was happy about was the cashier who checked my mother out whowas a local who was friendly, helpful, acknowledging us with the Best Customer Service of all I've seen in Avons Food Lion, Glenda, thank you!for all the faults you make up with your wonderful attitude, (maybe she should be giving other employees Customer Service training) I say that after attempting to speak to some employees in the aisles who seemed hard of hearing to my directed questions, I say.. Shame on you who are in management & are not enforcing face coverings,6ft rule, I documented this, I'm not a mean customer trying to cause issues, I'm a customer with artificial heart valves, a daughter to my mother with a Poor Immune system,who I do not want to see become sick, because of lack of following thru with NC & Dare County imposed rules for our safety. I post only a couple pictures to prove my point, but I took pictures of at least 12 people shopping, no mask, mask pulled down, walking up on us & almost knocking my mother down (its 6ft. distance folks) and then I watched coughing observed then opening the freezer doors, I avoided touching anything without a covering on my hands.. please, tourists vacationing, perhaps even locals.Please Respect Others Around You. To late after...

My boyfriend and I visited this evening to pick up a few items that our family forgot on their way in. A couple of these items included alcohol. When we went to check out at self check out I scanned my purchases and went to pay when a female worker with white hair demanded to see both my ID and my boyfriends. I have never had this happen before and when my aunt and I were there two nights ago only I had to show my ID. My boyfriend did not have his ID on him as he rode with me. She stated that she could not sell to us as she did not know if he was a minor (we are both almost 30). My question is, how would she know if there was minor in the car or back at home? I would have understood this situation if this was happening to every person in the self check out line but no. It only happened to us, my boyfriend happened to be the only black male in the store. Several white families and couples came through after us as I was waiting for my boyfriend to come back with his ID and none of them even had their IDs checked. When he returned this female worker had disappeared and a manger came to check our IDs. I brought up my concerns about the situation to him and he was very uninterested. To say I am disappointed in this behavior is an understatement. This type of blatant racism is unacceptable. What really solidifies this for me is that the woman did not come back to the front until we left the store. Extremely...

It seems to be the only grocery store in the area, so be prepared to stand in line. Also, if you see a cart in the cart corral when you park, go ahead and grab it because there might not be any in the store. Learned that lesson the first time I went there the other night. There were just so many peolep inside, it was crazy. It reminded me of news clips I've seen where the stores are packed with people preparing for a hurricane or like it was the day before Thanksgiving. I will say though, that even though the lines are long, they seemed to move fast and there were a lot of checkouts open. I've only been in there twice, so maybe having that many open was because it was the weekend, but it was almost 9pm when I went Saturday night and there were a lot of cashiers, so maybe that's the norm. I gave them 4 stars because that first night I went, I asked one of the associates walking by where the cars were and he said "they should be out there" and then just kept on walking. They weren't "out there" so I had to use a little hand basket and ended up having to go back to the store for the rest of my items the...