Company officials recently announced plans to construct a new Food City on State of Franklin Road in Johnson City, TN.  The 62,000+ square foot supermarket will serve as a replacement for the existing location and is expected to be completed late Spring of 2015. 

“We are excited to provide our loyal customers with a new, larger state-of-the-art Food City to serve the community,” said Steven C. Smith, Food City president and chief executive officer. 

“Our customers can expect to find the same smiling faces, top quality products and competitive pricing they have come to expect from Food City, housed in a more energy efficient model.”

The location will include an in-store bakery/deli, complete with a cheese shop, hot food bar, large café seating area, hickory wood smoker and stone hearth pizza oven, as well as a community room, equipped with a kitchen.  A fresh food bar will also be available, featuring a wide variety of soup, wings, salad and fruit selections.  Full service meat and seafood departments will offer pre-marinated and seasoned oven ready products, plus a complete selection of top quality meats that are all-natural with no solutions added, including Certified Angus Beef and fresh sushi.  In-house meat cutters will hand cut steaks and fresh meat to order.  Expanded grocery, frozen food, beer and produce departments will go well beyond the normal fare with a huge selection of gourmet, international and specialty items, in addition to a Nature’s Market, featuring a full line of natural and organic items.  The Food City Floral Boutique will be staffed with a designer seven days per week, offering a full assortment of fresh-cut floral arrangements, bouquets, gift items and more.  Rapid checkout service will be provided by eight traditional check-out lanes, one express lane and four self-check-outs.  For added convenience, the store will also offer a Food City Pharmacy, equipped with a drive-thru for greater ease in prescription services and a Food City Gas N’ Go with a large five pump station, including diesel fuel.

The new location also features several award winning energy saving concepts, ranging from energy efficient glass cooler doors, parking lot lights and refrigeration systems to motion sensors, LED lighting and a new skylight system that automatically dims the lights based upon the level of natural lighting for maximum energy efficiency.  

Headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia, K-VA-T Food Stores operates 105 retail food outlets throughout the tri-state regions of Southeast Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee.