Food Lion stores over the years developed a pretty bad reputation for the way it treated truckers delivering produce and other items to its distribution 
centers. Some say this situation has improved over the past five years or so.
Whatever the case, Food Lion’s parent company Delhaize America is planning to shutter 126 stores and slash 49,000 jobs, plus discontinue its Bloom banner, which some stores operated under, according to the Food Lion website. Delhaize has 1,600 stores operating in 16 states, mostly in the Southeastern part of the country. Among its operations are Bottom Dollar Food, Food Lion, Harveys, Hannaford Supermarkets, Reid’s and Sweetbay.
Closings of the stores should take place within the next month.