Lowes Foods

Lowes Foods

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Retail
Founded	1954 (70 years ago) (1954) in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States
Founder	Jim Lowe
Headquarters	Winston-Salem, North Carolina , United States
Number of locations	85 Stores (2024)
Area served	South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia
Key people	Tim Lowe (CEO)
Products	Grocery, deli, bakery, meat, seafood, produce, dairy, floral
Revenue	$1.6 billion (2007)
Number of employees	14,500 (2024) [1]
Parent	Alex Lee Inc.
Subsidiaries	>KJ's Market IGA Southeast
Website	www.lowesfoods.com

Lowes Foods is an American supermarket chain based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The chain initially grew in the mountains of North Carolina and rural areas of Virginia, but, starting in the late 1990s, it expanded in metropolitan areas of North Carolina and South Carolina.^{[citation needed]}