Food Lion

I love food lion, everything here at a decent price. The stuff are really good. I highly recommend this place

Love this food lion! It is right by my house, is always well organized, and you get great deals if you follow the specials, use Ibotta and coupons. The shopping carts are great for kids and I never find it to be over crowded. There is 5 cent charge for grocery bags so bring your own. Parking is usually pretty great!

Food Lion has something for everyone. Of course, I shop there for my healthy nut mix, but there are other outstanding departments I haven’t mentioned. There is a huge selection of gluten free products. Shelves and shelves of cookies, cereals, snacks, and pastas. There are freezer cases full of gluten free meals and breads. The nicest thing is that it is cheaper than other grocery stores. So, if you are looking for a specific brand, check out Food Lion first. I get my frozen vegetables at a fraction of the price. Yes, I did just buy 5 bags of the asparagus. The seafood department is always full of fresh fish. I have bought shrimp, tilapia, and tuna. The manager is friendly and helpful. He tells me when the seafood arrived at the store and what looks good to buy for that week. So, if you want to save money to try a new restaurant on Unilocal,visit Food Lion first!

Food Lion is awesome for low prices and a diverse selection of foods. They have a huge parking lot and are stocked with about everything aside from beer and wine. Every item seems to have a great amount of brands.
The layout channels the customer towards the self check-​out aisles and the employees are on standby to help if you cannot figure them out. They’re very helpful, but I personally, don’t like the idea of the self check-​out. What’s the point? So that the grocers can spend money on technology that alienates their customers and pay their employees less?
The Food Lion workers are very nice and I like interacting with them. There’s one gentleman that always helps with the self check-​out area and seems to take his role very seriously. He helps customers immediately if the have a concern.

Clean, spacious store, well-​stocked for a Food Lion. Nicer than the one on Shady Grove at the Rockville/​Gaithersburg border.
Don’t come here if you are in a rush. There appears to be a mechanical glitch in the registers. They are beyond slow — both self serve and the cashiers.
Although the parking lot is small, it never seems to fill up. I’ve never had trouble parking during the week after work or on the weekend.

Starting from the Whole Foods and Shoppers Food by White Flint to the Giant above Rockville Town Center, the Rockville Pike corridor has a dozen or so supermarkets. This Food Lion is one of the best.
This store was formerly a «Bloom,» Food Lion’s upscale brand, but Food Lion gave up on the concept converting this store a few years ago.
The prices are good, very good. The store is always clean. There are some stores that carry more variety, but for the most part, you can find what you need.
The difference is the staff. Most are very nice, and remarkably as someone who has shopped there for several years now, there hasn’t been too much turnover for the key employees.
Given the wages paid at any supermarket, shoppers are always going to find someone who isn’t as helpful as they should be. But overall this staff is responsive and friendly.
I agree with those who have said FL has good deals on produce, meat and fish. What was not said is how good the deli is. Prices for cold-​cuts are ALWAYS a good deal at FL.
One more thing.
Every supermarket offers a deal on roasted chickens. I have had the roasted chicken at every chain in the DC area… the Bloom bird is the best deal.
They offer two varieties. Both have their merits. But they do something every other store does not. THEY FULLY COOK THE CHICKEN. Many times a roasted chicken has to be re-​cooked when you get it home and the dark meat of often not appetizing. The Rockville Food Lion Bird is always ready to eat.
The reason is interesting and gets to why this is a good store. The cook at the deli is told to cook the chickens at X temp for X amount of time. But he knows that isn’t enough. So he cooks the bird longer. Sounds simple, right?
How many supermarkets would allow someone the autonomy to cook an offering a certain way? Very few. The cook at FL knows the bird needs more time. He wants to make a quality product.
No supermarket is perfect, and we do shop at Giant, Shoppers and the upscale market, but we always include this Food Lion.
Keep it up!

Typical grocery store. I did the self checkout and it was a nightmare. The scanner would only scan one thing every 30 seconds so it took forever. I don’t know if it was just that machine or all of them, but it was very laggy.

Who doesn’t like a grocery store that has everything you need with fairly decent prices! I tend to stop by here in the mornings on my way to work to grab a few things for the day and I’m never disappointed. I always find what I’m looking for and the produce always looks and tastes delish. I’m always met with smiling faces and asked if I need help and that’s a complete change from most stores today. The store is clean, organized and always spot on!

Well, I suppose if you’ve been to one grocery, you’ve been to then all. Wide, well lit spaces, lots of produce, a bakery, and most recently, a redesigned home goods section. This location also has lots of very good deals and coupon sales which my wife and I take advantage of.
The only downside to this location is that you can’t really take the carts out of the store. There are no cart catchers in the parking lot and you have to either bring your car around or carry everything.
Besides that, this is a clean and great example of a Food Lion location. Unremarkable, but sometimes that’s a good thing.

And now that they’ve closed the pharmacy, there’s absolutely no reason to go here at all. Sigh.

After shopping at various places in Bethesda and experiencing massive sticker shock, I set out to find a cheap (er) grocery store in the area (hey, I’m a grad student). After an appointment nearby, I noticed the Food Lion and decided to try it out. Since then, I’ve been coming here to grocery shop.
The parking lot by the Food Lion is never too crazy, and I can always find a spot fairly close (which is good, cause they don’t let you take the carts into the parking lot). The store is clean, and the few times I’ve asked random employees questions, they’ve been really helpful (one even escorted me to the almond milk from the other side of the store). I tend to go during the day during the week or weekend, and it’s never busy.
You need an «MVP card» to get discounts, but the application was quick and easy (they grabbed a new card, scanned it, and let me bring the application back with me the next time). The prices on food, especially with the MVP card, are very reasonable, and I haven’t found a cheaper store in the area. Product selection doesn’t feel massive, but I always find everything I want.
Overall, a good choice for grocery shopping in the area!

If you’re disabled and need the motorized cart, don’t go here.
They both are very beat up and the battery charge barely lasts a quick shopping trip and they have no plans to repair or replace them.
The employee, I think a manager tired to convince me that it was normal.

I remember when this shop was originally a Food Lion, and then was Bloom and is now back to being a Food Lion. We stopped in to pick up a few non-​perishable items while we were traveling through the area. The store is layout strangely, but everything is easy to find. The veggies and meats looked to be both plentiful and fresh. The prices are comparable, if not slightly better than Giant most of the time.

Wonderful staff !

They keep this place EXCEPTIONALLY cold. not sure why. Like it is colder than any other grocery store I have ever been to.
Anyways, they are not very good about keeping the place well stocked. They run out of things and then they dont replace them for like a week or so. They carry the usual groceries and stuff. One other complaint — their fish/​meat section is smellier than others. ugh!

I’ve been shopping at this particular location for years. They lose one cool point because they cannot make minds as to what they want the name of this grocery store to be. In the past two years it has been Food Lion and Bloom … now it is Food Lion again.
The prices are very reasonable and this is one of the cleanest Food Lion’s that I have been in. The employees are always nice and helpful.
They have a nice selection of items to choose from.
Remember to bring your bags. This location is in Montgomery County and there is a .05 fee for grocery bags.

This is now Food Lion

I like to stop by Bloom on the way home. This place is not busy and the prices are very reasonable.
Here is what I LOVE, the meat and seafood departments are awesome. Choice beef and fresh seafood. The produce department has fresh and diverse selection. The staff in the meat and seafood departments are always helpful!
What I HATE, the check out. Slow and stupid cashiers.

Color me surprised! It’s a fairly decent, clean, and well stocked grocery store in Wintergreen Plaza. For some reason, I thought this was a creepy Food Lion, but I had to run in today during lunch to pick up some cakes for dinner tonight (yeah, definitely a little grumbly about that… was *so* not prepared to have people over. UGH) and the niceness of this store definitely improved my mood.
Small but well stocked cake section with nice «gourmet» cakes (and not just the plain flat sheet cakes — although they have them too) with a nice gourmet over priced cheese selection as well.
Color me impressed!

While I don’t shop here for my regular groceries, this place is our office go-​to for bakery birthday cakes. They’re really good with cake decorations too, and the cakes are nice and fresh. I recently ordered one with black and white frosting with Chanel logos on it — looked cute!
The prices are reasonable too, so I’ll definitely be back.