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That goes for membership clubs like Sam’s Club and Costco, too.

So the stores are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves.” The supermarket industry is fiercely competitive, so while saturation is part of the decision-making process, they also take a look at the area itself and the need to fill an unmet niche,” said Laura Strange of the National Grocers Association. “Generally speaking, there is the possibility for a market to be oversaturated, but the grocers look at density of population and many other factors before deciding where to locate its stores. Census Bureau, the Hilton Head Island, Bluffton and Beaufort area was the 13th fastest-growing metropolitan area in the country from 2013 to 2014.īut even with that growth, one still wonders how all these grocery stores maintain enough business to stay afloat. It’s not just Bluffton that has grown, either. That has changed dramatically with the growth of the community from 1.1 square miles to more than 50 square miles, with a rising population to match. When Bluffton was a sleepy town, its need for grocery stores was limited.

People often wonder how the community can support so many new grocery stores. The 113,000-square-foot store will have a drive-through pharmacy, fuel center, Starbucks, a “Chef on the Run” hot bar buffet, an apparel department and more.

A Kroger Marketplace is being developed at Buckwalter Place on Buckwalter Parkway, which also is home to a Publix.

Walmart has not released a construction deadline.

A 43,000-square-foot Walmart Neighborhood Market is being built at the intersection of S.C.

The Sam's Club at 95 Mathews Drive on Hilton Head will close after the new store opens in early 2017.

A Sam's Club and a Walmart Supercenter are planned for the intersection of U.S.

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The site plan that was approved in 2015 also calls for a Target, Lowe’s, Kohl’s, a movie theater and more.

A Costco is planned for Okatie Crossing at U.S.

And there’s more on the way for the Bluffton area: Today it also has a Food Lion (in addition to the new Food Lion in nearby Okatie near Sun City Hilton Head), a Kroger, a Bi-Lo, a Target Supercenter and two Publixes within 5 miles of each other - with another one in nearby Hardeeville in the New River Crossing Center, where there is also a Walmart Supercenter. On Hilton Head Island today, in addition to the long-standing Coligny Piggly Wiggly, grocers include two Harris Teeters (which are now subsidiaries of Kroger), two Publixes, two Bi-Los, a Fresh Market, a Whole Foods, a Walmart Supercenter, Sam’s Club and the latest addition, the 87,588-square-foot Kroger at the new Shelter Cove Towne Centre.īluffton continued its small-town pace, but by 2006, it also had a Kroger. 46 and Buck Island Road.īy 1996, a Bi-Lo on Hilton Head’s Pope Avenue was in business, as well as a Harris Teeter in Park Plaza and a Publix on Pembroke. Thirty years ago, when Hilton Head Monthly published its first edition, in addition to the Coligny Piggly Wiggly, there was also the Big Star in Pineland Mall D&J Grocery on Mathews Drive Gatlin’s Fine Food and Groceries on Lighthouse Road Winn-Dixie at Northridge Plaza and a Piggly Wiggly in Shelter Cove.īluffton, then a very tiny burg, had just the Williams Supermarket on S.C. The store is part of the fabric and local history of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton, as is the grocery industry throughout the Lowcountry.

The Martin family-owned store would go on to anchor Coligny Plaza as it does today, serving thousands of locals and tourists, raking in, well, obviously a whole lot more than $5 a day, and serving the community far beyond selling food products. Despite the name change, for many years people would still make out checks to “The Red Pig.” Gene Martin would later buy the store and, in 1992, the Red & White became a Piggly Wiggly. This month, we feature the grocery industry and how it helped shape Hilton Head Island, Bluffton and the surrounding Lowcountry.

Sink.ĮDITOR’S NOTE: As part of Monthly’s yearlong 30th anniversary celebration, we are highlighting 30 years of different industries in each issue. In 1956, when the Richardson family opened the Red & White, the first grocery store on Hilton Head Island, a good day’s take was about $5.Ī loaf of bread was 12 cents coffee was 37 cents a pounds, a T-bone steak was 59 cents a pound and a giant box of Tide was 67 cents, according to “The Hidden History of Hilton Head” by Alice E.