Harris Teeter or Food Lion? Earth Fare or Ingles? Lowes Foods or Lowe’s lumber yard? Groceries matter a lot to North Carolinians. And for good reason — our state produced some groundbreaking supermarket chains. From the end of the independent butcher shop to the racial integration of the checkout aisle, businesses experimented and changed the course of how we get our food. Host Anita Rao lingers in the aisle with grocery scholars and independent grocers to learn about the suburban supermarket and alternative foodscape futures. Her guests are: Demetrius Hunter, founder of Grocers on Wheels and the Black Farmers’ HUB Lisa Tolbert , associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of the forthcoming book "Beyond Piggly Wiggly: A Cultural History of the Self-Service Store." David Gwynn , creator of the Groceteria.com and an associate professor and digital projects coordinator for the UNC-Greensboro libraries. Some of the independent grocers we