A popular NC-based grocery store will close another Triangle location (2025)

The North Carolina-based grocery store Lowes Foods is closing another location in the Triangle.

Its store at 930 High House Road in Cary will shutter, Triangle Business Journal reported.

The last day to shop the store, located at the Preston Corners shopping center at the intersection with Cary Parkway, will be Wednesday, May 14.

Kelly Davis, a senior director of guest engagement for Lowes Foods, told TBJ the company decided not to renew its lease.

The closure of the High House Road store leaves two other Lowes Foods locations in Cary — at 6430 Tryon Road and 687 Mills Park Drive. Several other grocers, including North Carolina-based Harris Teeter and Food Lion, Aldi, Lidl and Trader Joe’s, operate stores in Cary.

The nearby town of Apex also has a Lowes Foods at 5400 Apex Peakway.

Lowes Foods did not immediately respond to The News & Observer’s request for more information.

Other closed Lowes Foods stores

This is Lowes Foods’ latest North Carolina location to close. Last summer, the company shared that it would close stores in Raleigh (8201 Rowlock Way) and Wilmington.

These store closures were part of a “broader growth strategy to invest in new stores and remodel existing stores.”

Lowes Foods announced at the time “store openings pending” in Concord, Kannapolis and Waxhaw in North Carolina, and Indian Land and Lexington in South Carolina. The Concord location opened in August.

Lowes Foods, which is headquartered in Winston-Salem, has more than 80 stores across North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

According to a recent report, Lowes Foods had a 4% market share in Raleigh’s core-based statistical area (which includes Wake, Franklin and Johnston counties) and a 1.8% market share in the Durham-Chapel Hill core-based statistical area (which includes Durham, Orange, Chatham and Person counties) in 2024. To compare, Walmart had a more than 20% market share in both core-based statistical areas last year.