With Trader Joe's joining the fray, Mt. Pleasant remains a potent draw for grocers
When grocery chain Trader Joe's opens a store in Mount Pleasant this summer, the town will have 18 full-size supermarkets, many of them within sight of a rival.
That's roughly one supermarket for every 4,400 residents, and that's not counting all the places one can buy groceries that aren't quite full-service supermarkets, from drug stores and convenience stores to the grocery aisles at Target and specialty shops such as Boone Hall Farms Market.
While less affluent areas such as North Charleston struggle to attract grocery stores, East Cooper has seen a flood of them. As a result, residents are enjoying wide selection, nearby locations and some of the region's most aggressive grocery price competition.
"I think it's great," said Mount Pleasant resident Barbara Crosher, while shopping at a Harris Teeter store that opened last year, two miles closer to her home than the location she used to patronize.
There are roughly 79,000 people in the town and the unincorporated communities that weave in and out of its boundaries. As a population center, the town is fourth in the state, behind Columbia, Charleston, and North Charleston.
"We've been there since 1993, and we've seen a lot of growth in the area," said Brenda Reid, community relations manager for Publix Super Markets, which operates three stores in the town. "There's plenty of land in Mount Pleasant, for shopping centers and parking lots, and it's also attractive because it's an affluent community, with lots of households with children."
U.S. Census Bureau data shows Mount Pleasant has a higher percentage of residents under 18 than most communities in Charleston County, with the exception of North Charleston.
"We want to be in markets where there are households with families," Reid said. "You look at how many people are under the roofs."
Affluence factor
But when it comes to making money selling groceries, affluent customers is the key.
North Charleston and Mount Pleasant, for example, have similar household sizes and similar percentages of children, but the median household income in Mount Pleasant is roughly double that of North Charleston, and tends to run 60 percent higher than the state.
That means a grocery shopper in Mount Pleasant is more likely to buy the higher-margin items sold on the perimeter of the store: meat and dairy products, fruits and vegetables, prepared foods and deli items.
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And Food Lion last year shut down on Coleman Boulevard, not far from a Piggly Wiggly, a Bi-Lo and a Publix. Food Lion spokeswoman Tenisha Waldo said the location was one of 15 underperforming stores in Food Lion's 11-state operation.
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Leesburg Regional Medical Center will get a $110,000 rebate check from the city on Tuesday.
The money is a 50 percent reimbursement for the $220,000 that LRMC has helped the city save in wholesale electric costs, city officials said.
Paul Kalv, director of Leesburg Electric Department, said LRMC joined the city in December 2009 in the load-shedding program, where both the hospital and the city use their emergency generators to supply their own electricity during costly peak times each month.
Kalv said this helps reduce the load off the electric grid during the "peak hour" when big power plants work the hardest and charge the most for electricity that they provide to Leesburg and other utilities.
LRMC noted that the hospital only uses the generators in areas that do not involve patient care, such as the North Campus and offices.
Leesburg officials will award LRMC for their cost-saving role at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, in the LRMC west lobby, 600 E. Dixie Ave.
Since 2009, the city said LRMC has saved enough electricity to power 3,600 homes for one hour.
Kalv also said Leesburg's two Publix Supermarket locations use generators to provide on-site electricity during peak demand hours. Both stores have saved more than $361,000 in wholesale electric cost, and also have received a 50 percent reimbursement from their partnership with Leesburg.
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