Ingles Markets, Incorporated (Ingles) is a supermarket chain in the southeast United States, operating 200 supermarkets in Georgia (73), North Carolina (68), South Carolina (36), Tennessee (20), Virginia (two) and Alabama (one). Ingles supermarkets offer customers a variety of nationally advertised food products, including grocery, meat and dairy products, produce, frozen foods and other perishables, and non-food products. Non-food products include fuel centers, pharmacies, health and beauty care products and general merchandise. The Company also offers private label items. The Company operates three lines of business: retail grocery sales, shopping center rentals and a fluid dairy processing plant.