Ingles

[Ameskid]

Does anyone know anything about this supermarket? I have been to one in....North Carolina or South Carolina, I think. It may or may not be a chain, so info would greatly be appreciated. Thanks!

[store215]

They are a large chain. I don't know too much about them except they have many stores down south

Here is their website:
http://www.ingles-markets.com/

[wiseguy93]

There is an Ingles' Supermarket in Norton, Virginia. Located in the Virginia Kentucky Regional Shopping Center. It open in 1990. Everybody was scared to death that when Wal Mart moved to it new Supercenter just a few miles up the road eveybody was afraid it would just shut down but it has stayed opened. And now the shopping center will soon be anchored also with a Magic Mart Store. There hasn't been anything done to the store since it opened. But it's a really good store.

[wiseguy93]

Mr. Ingle's background certainly qualified him to know the preferences of shoppers in his territory. A member of a third generation grocery family, he worked in a grocery store started by his grandfather in Asheville, North Carolina where the company headquarters is still located.



His father sold the company in 1956 and young Robert went to the University of Miami. From 1961 to 1963 he was back in the Carolinas working for the chain of Colonial Stores until he secured financing to open his first Ingles store in Asheville in 1963.

The first facility was small, crowded and staffed by Ingle, his wife and a small dedicated group of employees. Competition was fierce, with chains such as Winn-Dixie, A&P and Colonial controlling 93 percent of the area's food sales. Yet Ingle was determined to break in.



He cut prices, extended store hours to include Sundays and holidays, advertised specials, expanded the supermarket, set up mass merchandise displays, offered games, stamps and other promotional items and generally, ran what he called "a circus" in order to get people in the door.

He saw an opportunity to invest in smaller towns and rural communities throughout North and South Carolina that were being underserved by large grocery chains. It was a strategy that proved so successful that expansion into similar communities in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia soon followed. Ingles now operates approximately 200 stores in six south-eastern states.

Ingles self-distributes 64% of its stores' merchandise from its distribution center on the outskirts of Asheville, North Carolina, where its headquarters is also located. Substantially, all of Ingles stores are located within a 250-mile radius of the distribution center to facilitate its high standards of quality and freshness.

This photo below is a picture of Ingles#1 Ingles #1
Hendersonville Rd
Asheville, NC - 1960's

Info & picture provided from www.ingles-markets.com

[wiseguy93]

Ingles offers a full variety of brand name products supplemented with Ingles' own Laura Lynn brand products which are equal or superior to National Brands and guaranteed by Ingles Markets. Ingles Private Label products are named after Mr. Ingle's daughter, Laura Lynn Ingle.

[wiseguy93]

Here is a really old Ingles Supermarket. Located in Hendersville North Carolina, I sure Ingles moved out of
this for a bigger store. The square footage is only 24,000

[wiseguy93]

Ingles Supermarket in Lenior City Tennessee. Also Big Lots in shopping center.

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Here is a vacant Ingles Supermarket in LaFollette Tennessee left vacant when they moved to a bigger one down the street. This is one of the older ones they had it's only 27200 sq ft

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A vacant Ingles Supermarket left vacant after Ingles moved next door to a remolded Wal Mart.

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This Ingles Supermarket is located in Clinton, Tennessee. This shoping Center is also anchored with Kmart.

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Here is a former Ingles Supermarket in Spartanburg South Carolina. Now an office building.

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Former Ingles Supermarket in Simpsonville, South Carolina.

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Former Ingles

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Lyman South Carolina.

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Ingles in Greenville.

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12315 Crabapple Street.

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670 N. Main St

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Located at Stanly County Plaza
636 Hwy 24/27 Bypass East

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Indian Hills shopping center

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A really old style Inges Supermarket still in operating. A small store.

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Old Ingles


An old Ingles Supermarket in Galax Virginia.32000 square feet.