Bottom line: This Food Lion in the Holden Beach area is a good grocery store resource. Clean, with…read morereasonable grocery prices for a beach area, good selection, and both staffed/self checkout options available. Very busy place as it is nearest to the beach and at a busy intersection, so the parking lot can be crowded also. The Deets: The nearest big chain grocery store in the Holden Beach area is this Food Lion, back on the mainland in the shopping center at the first stoplight after coming back over the bridge from the beach (same on as Walgreens). The parking lot is usually pretty packed as this store/shopping center is a pretty busy one. The grocery store itself is pretty clean and has a good layout, but again usually pretty busy with customers. The grocery prices are pretty acceptable for a beach area and of course their Food Lion MVP cards for special prices are useable here. There is a pretty good selection of all grocery items, no visible lacking areas noted so far. There is a hot food bar available if you want to use for a premade meal to take home. The beer cooler is towards the front to the left as you walk in, pretty handy in a beach area obviously. There are staffed checkout lines as well as self checkout kiosks, and the self checkout area line actually moves pretty fast as well staff comes quickly when needed/screen signals them. This beach area Food Lion gets the job done and I have to say it's not bad compared to most beach area grocery stores as well as a lot of Food Lion stores in general.

Love everything about this store, it clean, the selection is great and the people are always…read morepleasant and helpful. The self checkout is always fast and the person(s) there to assist is always very nice and polite. Great grocery store!

During my stay in Ocean Isle Beach we decided to stock up on some items for our beach house for the…read morelong stay. We stopped by this Walmart supercenter. The store was clean and mirrored many of the Walmarts. I have visited over the year so it was easy to find items. The only issue that I had during my time at this Walmart supercenter was during checkout. A couple of the registers were reserved for something that was called for a spark member. I'm not quite sure what that meant, but I was sort of confused as to why we would be reserving registers for Spark Members that was not there when easily they could be opened to allow the whole line to flow quicker.

Extremely disappointing customer service from start to finish. I arrived around 9:45 a.m. with a…read moreseverely flat tire while traveling alone and trying to get home to Myrtle Beach. There were no vehicles waiting and only two in the bays, yet Kenny advised the wait could be up to two hours. I found him dismissive, condescending, and generally uninterested in helping. Since I was stuck waiting, I asked where I could get something to eat. Kenny directed me to the Dunkin' inside the store, which had no breakfast sandwiches, no donuts, and another employee whose curt "Nope" and "Yep" responses made it clear that basic questions were an inconvenience. While killing time shopping, I noticed a fully stocked shelf in the baby department visibly leaning and appearing ready to collapse. I immediately notified an employee working in the next aisle. His response was essentially a blank "And?"--no concern, no urgency, not even a thank-you for reporting a potential safety hazard. Finally, at 12:15 p.m., I received a text that my vehicle had been pulled in. At 12:22 p.m.--SEVEN MINUTES LATER--it was finished. Nearly 2 1/2 hours of waiting for a seven-minute repair. Unfortunately, Yvonne at checkout displayed much of the same dismissive attitude. Sherri and the tire technician who returned my keys were the notable exceptions--both were pleasant and professional. As a Walmart+ customer, I don't expect special treatment. I do expect courtesy, communication, and employees who actually care when a customer reports a safety concern. When the same dismissive attitude is encountered across multiple departments and multiple employees, it stops looking like one person having a bad day and starts looking like a management and customer-service culture problem. A seven-minute repair shouldn't consume nearly three hours of a customer's day, and basic courtesy shouldn't be this difficult to find.

I like shopping at food lion but long checkout line and limited staff. No express checkout. We had…read more2 items.

I've been shopping here for years. The help has always been polite and pleasant no matter how busy…read morethey are. While sometimes the items on special have sold out, I can always find something else that is a good buy. The produce on hand is always fresh, often locally grown. One can also find items, like rabbit meat, that the other markets don't carry. While it is an older store, I find it a comfortable place to shop. And I like that the spirits are tucked away from the regular grocery items. And there are always plenty of good choices in the bakery section, you are missing something if you don't try the pies and cakes.

One of the oldest groceries in Brunswick County, Hills has been serving up great meats and fresh…read morelocal produce for many, many years. I highly recommend checking out their weekly specials - you can often find excellent deals. Recently, Springer Mountain chicken was on sale for $0.99/pound, so my husband and I treated our weekend guests to a fried chicken feast and stayed within budget. If you're looking for quality beef and chicken at low prices, Hills has you covered. That said, other staples, like milk, may be a tad pricier than other area grocers.

Since there's a Food Lion in Holden Beach, I rarely take the opportunity to shop at this Shallotte…read morelocation. In town to do some appliance shopping after Thanksgiving, I opted to stop in and pick up the few things I needed from the grocery. The store is conveniently located on the main drag through Shallotte, not too far from the intersection of Highway 17 and Business 17. The layout of the store is similar to the Holden Beach one, although it feels much larger and newer, with updated flooring and signage. The wine section is larger and more varied, with specials at all price points. I like that Food Lion carries the Udi's gluten free breads, including their baguette, which is pretty decent for GF bread. The trick is to know these breads are located in a freezer case on the way to the produce area, just past the deli section. The staff is friendly and helpful, and checkout is a breeze.

This is a very good grocery store that really functions well most of the time. I have shopped at…read morethis store since they came to Shallotte years ago. They have some excellent up front associates who really present themselves well...thus making this particular store much better than other Food Lions in their chain. These quality people make shopping here a pleasure rather than a chore. The store is clean and always well stocked. Their meats are good, occasionally I have gotten some lunch meat from their deli that are tough and not quiet up to par. Their other meats are usually very good. Their vegetables are good and presented well. As a whole, for a small town grocery store, we are fortunate to have FOOD LION CORPORATION in Shallotte, NC.

Bottom line: This beach area Dollar General got the job done. Usual layout and selection one would…read moreexpect at this type of store. Only having one register staffed when there was a long line of customers was not efficient during the summer, but other than that, what you'd expect from Dollar General stores. The Deets: While at a recent vacation in Holden Beach, we had the need to pick up a new plastic chair by request for one of the group. Remembering this Dollar General just outside of Holden Beach on the way to Shallotte, we went there to see what they had. It is easy to find with the usual Dollar General road signage. It has a fair sized parking lot that appeared to be pretty occupied when we arrived (more on that later). Right as we walked up, we found the type of chair needed and it was the only one left, lucky us! So we grabbed it and in we went. Once inside, it's the usual type of layout and large mixture of items one would expect seeing at a Dollar General. This one had almost 4 star potential except, remember when I remarked on how many cars were in the lot? Well, all those people were waiting in line to get checked out with their merchandise. I'm going with 3 stars here because they have the capacity for more than one person to staff registers but there was only one staff member there. Granted, this person worked very hard, stayed positive, and worked as efficiently as possible with the amount of people with the amount of items handled. Knowing this store services a beach area with it being summer, I'd say they needed all registers staffed for efficiency. With that said, this Dollar General is OK, we found what was needed.

I went to just grab a few things tonight and it was close to closing. the customer service staff…read morewent out of their way to serve a friend and I to complete our transactions before closing. they didn't hesitate to look for the best deals and the best quality for the price on our items.