Response to Food Lion letter

This is a response to the article printed on Monday, Jan. 14, concerning the parking at our store to ride the Wolfline. I am an employee of Food Lion and this letter is in accordance of the feelings of Food Lion. We are extremely sorry that Mr. Becker feels the way he does about our store. Understand us when we say we do care about North Carolina State University. Yes we have had to take measures to control the parking in our lot but it has been getting out of hand. Daytime elderly customers were having problems finding parking spaces.

Ask around campus to different organizations and ask them how we have supported them in their time of need. We constantly promote NCSU and its student body. As a grocery store, we have a duty to all customers to provide adequate parking and great customer service. We appreciate the business from the students of NCSU, but we must be fair and limit the parking space for student commuters. Our elderly shoppers cannot travel the length of the parking lot to come in and shop and our handicapped spaces are limited. To ensure that we maintain a balanced customer base, we must cater to all types of clientele.

Please understand that we are trying to have a friendly partnership with NCSU by allowing students to park here and defraying the cost of purchasing a parking sicker on campus. The parking provided is a privilege, not a necessity. We apologize for Mr. Becker’s feelings, but we (Food Lion) still have a business to run and that requires that we place a limitation on the free student parking.

Charles InmanSenior, Business Management

Support was genuine

I was at the game and I was completely heartbroken for the State players. They were humiliated by what was happening and it was hard to watch. But let me set the record straight; when I clapped for State’s first score in over 11 minutes, it was sincere. I don’t like to beat anyone like that and even though State fans hate Carolina with every breath they take (Tar Holes? classy…), I never wanted to see the State players struggle so badly. Kate UrquhartUNC ’77