Food Lion And Energy Savings

Foods Lion is always looking for ways to reduce cost and bring down prices.  An initiative they have been following for several years is reduction in energy usage.  In the grocery business energy costs make up the second largest expense category at 10% of overall budgeted expenses.  Food Lion has taken aggressive efforts to reduce energy consumption and has saved nearly $104.8 million since it began the reduction initiative.  Over 400 of the chains stores have received the Energy Star award for energy efficiency.  One example of what they are doing to reduce electricity usage is only using half the lights during non peak hr week days.  Once the peak hrs of customer traffic comes they turn on all the lighting.