Food Lion to Offer Store Pickup

As if you needed another reason to shop at Food Lion, one of East Ridge’s favorite grocery stores will soon offer curbside pickup.

Officials with the store said the new service will begin on August 29th.

Here’s how it works: download the Food Lion to Go app on your smart phone or log on to www.shop.foodlion.com. Enter your MVP number to get started. If you don’t know it you can find it on your last receipt or call 1-800-210-9569.

You can shop by department, browse all products or search specifically for what you want by using the search bar at the top. When you’re ready to check out select the next available pick up time.

The folks at Food Lion will text you when they start shopping and filling your order. They will let you know if they are out of an item and suggest a substitution if needed.

You can go to the store at Ringgold Road, park in one of the designated parking spaces and some smiling face will bring them out to you. You don’t even have to get out of the car.

There is a small fee associated with the service. For orders over $35, it will cost $1.99. For orders less than $35, it will cost $3.99.

If you have a question or need assistance, call a customer representative at 1-800-210-9569.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.