2 Top Supermarkets file for bankruptcy

[roadman65]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

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[Max Rockatansky]

Well that sucks, I always enjoyed the wing bars at the bigger Winn Dixie's. 

[Takumi]

No surprise on Winn-Dixie, they've been contracting for decades. Last stores in Virginia closed around 15 years ago, I think.

[Buck87]

Not overly surprised to hear about Tops. About a decade ago they opened a brand new store in Norwalk, Ohio and then closed it less than 2 years later.

[roadman65]

Well that sucks, I always enjoyed the wing bars at the bigger Winn Dixie's. 

Winn Dixie did it to themselves.  They could have copied Publix and concentrated on better customer service as that is what killed them over the years. 

In the 70's and the 80's they ran neck in neck with Publix, but for some reason management or attitudes changed and they let themselves slip.  Its a shame they had a good thing going even in the early 90's with the sprawl of Florida taking shape as they were able to open more stores for each subdivision being built.  They even had the WD Marketplace which was good, but the one near me got to be with a careless staff once that opened and soon later it closed.

[LM117]

When I saw the thread title, I was expecting to see Food Lion (aka Shitty Kitty).

[Roadgeekteen]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

[hotdogPi]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

My first thought was Publix, but they aren't that common outside of Florida.

[hbelkins]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

Probably Walmart Supercenters.

[Big John]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

My first thought was Publix, but they aren't that common outside of Florida.

There are plenty of Publix markets around Atlanta.

[Buck87]

From what I've seen, the Atlanta area a mix of Publix, Kroger, Ingles and Piggly Wiggly

[jwolfer]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

My first thought was Publix, but they aren't that common outside of Florida.

Publix now has stores in GA, AL, SC, NC and TN.. I think even VA

Z981

[Roadgeekteen]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

Probably Walmart Supercenters.

Ah Walmart. Replacing every interesting local brand with their blue and yellow crap.

[74/171FAN]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

My first thought was Publix, but they aren't that common outside of Florida.

Publix now has stores in GA, AL, SC, NC and TN.. I think even VA

Z981

Yes Publix is in VA now.  They replaced a few of the former Martin's stores in the Richmond area when they all closed.

[hbelkins]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

My first thought was Publix, but they aren't that common outside of Florida.

Publix now has stores in GA, AL, SC, NC and TN.. I think even VA

Z981

Yes Publix is in VA now.  They replaced a few of the former Martin's stores in the Richmond area when they all closed.

Are all Martin's closed? i remember getting gas at one in Staunton, Va., several years ago. It was cheaper than Sheetz.

[Sctvhound]

Winn-Dixie was here in the Charleston market for many years, but closed about 10 years ago or so. They had a location on Folly Road in James Island, and they closed in 1996 or 1997, and were replaced by Publix. Their stores had gone downhill here for a while.

[freebrickproductions]

Winn-Dixie pretty much just about left Alabama completely around a decade ago when the franchisee for the entire state went bankrupt. A few stores still remain in this state, but not many, and they'll probably get closed due to this bankruptcy (we've already lost Kmart as a whole).

[KEVIN_224]

Here in Connecticut, we're dominated by Stop & Shop, Price Chopper, Shop Rite and Big Y. We used to have Shaw's, but they left the state in the mid-2000s.

[Hurricane Rex]

I would argue Oregon is dominated by Fred Meyer and Safeway IMO.

[Takumi]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

My first thought was Publix, but they aren't that common outside of Florida.

Publix now has stores in GA, AL, SC, NC and TN.. I think even VA

Z981

Yes Publix is in VA now.  They replaced a few of the former Martin's stores in the Richmond area when they all closed.

Are all Martin's closed? i remember getting gas at one in Staunton, Va., several years ago. It was cheaper than Sheetz.

No, just in central/eastern Virginia. The parent companies of them and Food Lion merged, and closed a bunch of stores in areas where both stores were common. In Richmond and Williamsburg, the Martins all closed, but elsewhere the Food Lions closed.

[formulanone]

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Winn Dixie and Tops are filling for bankruptcy.   The former was the ruler of the southeast for decades, then fell to a point of closing stores due to falling customer service and now may soon be history.

Who rules the Southeast now?

Probably Walmart Supercenters.

Ah Walmart. Replacing every interesting local brand with their blue and yellow crap.

To be fair, I thought Walmart's stores were cleaner, more organized, and better stocked than Winn Dixie ever was...that says something.

Publix's strategy in Florida used to be: build one every 2 miles or so. Then they found themselves with a lot of aging stores (although sometimes elegant MiMo architecture) in poorer neighborhoods. Or just a lot of overlap, since Winn-Dixie and others disappeared in the 1990s. Walmart and Target were not very common south of Orlando, so they had the grocery market largely to themselves.

Walmart changed that around the turn of the millenium, as each new store undercut them by 10-20%. Now instead of trying to saturate every medium-sized town, Publix targets larger cities' affluent areas, and typically brand-new locations. They're clean, customer-focused, and offer a nice range of products; it's employee-owned, so there's a bit of pride that goes with the territory.

[Jardine]

When I was a kid (60s) we had Safeway stores in the area (western Iowa/Omaha) but they've been gone a very long time.

I had an uncle who managed to retire from one before they were gone.  Still around in other states, but it's a tough marketplace everywhere.

[jwolfer]

Winn Dixie filed for bankruptcy about 15 years ago. And emerged from that, after pulling out of lots of markets and closing stores

Winn Dixie merged with BiLo a couple years ago and they have Harvey's in lower income areas and an Hispanic focused chain in South Florida ( Sabor y Fresco I think)

Winn Dixie was the master of the South for years with stores from Indiana to the Bahamas but they rested on their laurels, did not change with times... So the they ended up with small out dated stores in run down shopping centers in older parts of town while Publix had fancy new stores in brand new shopping centers

Z981

[Sctvhound]

Publix and Harris Teeter (now owned by Kroger) share a lot of the same values. Here in the Charleston area currently they are the two major supermarkets in the coastal areas (east of I-526). Farther inland, Walmart is the major supermarket.

Harris Teeter, in the upper-middle class Mt. Pleasant area (a town of about 80 to 85,000), has EIGHT locations. Publix only has three, but most of their stores are much larger than Harris Teeter, who bought another one of the major chains in the Charleston area, locally-owned Piggly Wiggly a few years ago.

The peninsular area of Charleston (everything south of I-26) only has one chain supermarket currently, a Harris Teeter on East Bay Street.

[jwolfer]

Harris teeter opened a 3 stores in Jacksonville area, first stores in FL in the early 2000s. The Mandarin store is now a Publix.. Ponte Vedra Beach store closed.. not sure if it's something else now.. so the only HT in Florida is in Fernandina Beach/Amelia Island. It's like the luxury brand of Kroger, similar to Lexus vs Toyota

I don't like the name Kroger.. stores are nice. Some say that Kroger will buy Winn Dixie to get a good foothold in Florida

Z981