Food City can trace its roots back to 1955 when Jack Smith opened his first Piggly Wiggly store in Grundy, Virginia.
The company continued to add locations until 1984 when it acquired Quality Foods, which had 19 locations, some of which operated under the Food City name.
The Smith family decided to adopt the Food City name for all locations in 1989.
Food City is owned by K-VA-T Food Stores.
In November 2017, Food City opened its first in-store Starbucks location in Athens, Tennessee. As of October 2022, the company now operates 43 Starbucks in-store locations.
In August 2022, K-VA-T announced plans to acquire Cooke’s family of stores in the Cleveland, Tennessee, area.
Food City maintains a corporate office in Abingdon, Virginia.
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