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    Aldi is transforming Florida Winn-Dixie locations

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    Prepare your rooms. Your local Winn-Dixie may have a hanging aldi sign Coming soon after the acquisition by the Germany-based company.

    in march Aldi completes acquisition of Southeastern GrocersAnnounces ambitious 5-year, $9 billion plan involving Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket adding 800 stores nationwide through new stores and store conversions. The company expects to convert about 50 of its new stores by the end of the year, with most reopening in 2025.

    Which ones? Aldi isn’t sharing its plans, but some news is starting to leak out.

    “We have officially begun the conversion process for the first few stores, including stores in Panama City, Deltona, Pensacola and Lakeland, Florida,” an Aldi spokesperson said via email in August. Signs have gone up lately two Brevard County Winn-Dixie locations Letting customers know that conversions are coming.

    Newly converted stores will be smaller – Aldi grocery stores typically Half the size of the average Winn-Dixie Aldi said it stocks “only the items customers need” for “a quick and easy shopping experience with great products at the lowest possible prices”.

    Gulflive.com, My Florida Retail and numerous local media (including Sites on the USA TODAY NETWORK) compiles lists of approved conversions and locations permissions to have apparently happened pulledA project cost of around $1.7 million each is generally estimated. However, Company warns against reading too much into permits,

    Winn-Dixie stores are turning into Aldis

    According to the news of various news sources and the signs detected in some places, these locations have either started transformation or are in the permit process. Very few of these have been verified by Aldi.

    Winn-Dixie locations

    • Adventure: Promenade Shoppes, 20417 Biscayne Boulevard
    • Arcadia: 1737 E Oak St
    • Apollo Beach: 252 Liman Köyü Ln
    • Avon Park: Avon Park Mall, 802 US Hwy 27 S
    • Boynton Beach: Cobblestone Commons, 8855 Boynton Beach Blvd.
    • Bradenton: 5805 Manatee Blvd.
    • Bushnell: Walker Ridge Square, 1122 N Main Street
    • crawfordville: 2629 Crawfordville Road
    • Crystal River: 1651 SE Road 19
    • Deltona: 2880 Howland Boulevard
    • – 4100 McCall Street
    • Fleming Island: Eagle Harbor, 1545 County Road 220
    • In Fort Lauderdale: Southland Plaza, 941 SW 24th Street
    • Fort Walton Beach: Oak Monte Shopping Center, 798 Beal Pkwy
    • Gainesville: 300 SW 16th Street
    • Hobe Voice: Marketplace, 8867 SE Bridge Rd
    • Homosassa: Homosassa Regional Mall, 3792 S. Suncoast Blvd.
    • Jacksonville: Fort Caroline Trading Post, 6060-10 Fort Caroline Road
    • Jensen Beach: Palm Breeze Plaza, 1105 NE Jensen Beach Boulevard
    • Lake District:
    • lake wales: Lake Wales Mall, 1860 State Route 60 East
    • Lehigh Acres: 61 Bell Boulevard N
    • Lithia: 16751 Fishhawk Blvd.
    • lutz: Sunset Plaza, 18407 US Highway 41
    • Melbourne: Ocean Springs Shopping Village, 961 E Eau Gallie Blvd.
    • New Port Richey:
      • New Port Richey Marketplace, 12120 Moon Lake Rd
      • 6400 Massachusetts Avenue
    • North Fort Myers: 5660 Bayshore Road
    • Ocala: Marion Oaks Shopping Center, 184 Marion Oaks Boulevard
    • Odessa: 17649 Gunn Hwy
    • Orlando: Metro West Market, 1401 S Hiawassee Rd
    • Ormond Beach: Ormond Beach Shopping Center, 353 West Granada Boulevard
    • Palm Port: 1360 Tampa Road
    • Panama City: Palm Court, 3157 W 23rd St
    • Panama City Beach: Panama Plaza, 23200 Front Beach Road
    • pensacola: Nine Mile Plaza, 312 E Nine Mile Rd
    • Charlotte Harbor: Kings Crossing Mall, 2000 Kings Highway
    • Port of St. John: Port St. John Plaza, 6257 US Hwy 1
    • Quincy: Quincy Plaza, 1632 W Jefferson St
    • Sarasota: 4230 Bee Ridge Road
    • Sebastian: 995 Sebastian Boulevard
    • Aziz Cloud: Canoe Creek Plaza, 3318 Canoe Creek Road
    • St.Petersburg: 3327 9th Avenue N
    • Tampa: 6425 County Line Road:
    • Villages: Lake Sumter Landing, 820 Old Camp Road
    • -Westlake: Grove Market, 5060 Seminole Pratt Whitney Rd

    Harvey:

    • jacksonville: Edgewood Square Shopping Center, 2261 W Edgewood Ave

    Not all Winn-Dixies will be Aldis

    “We intend for a significant portion of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets to continue operating under their existing brands,” Aldi said, echoing what CEO Jason Hart said in a statement nearly a year ago.

    Winn-Dixie employees at the Tallahassee store, who wished to remain anonymous, said: conversions are only for areas where there is no existing Aldi. (They said Tallahassee Winn-Dixie remains Winn-Dixie.)

    Most of the new store locations will likely be in the rest of the country, with about 330 stores planned for the Northeast and Midwest and more stores in Southern California, Phoenix and Las Vegas, the statement said. But buying Southeastern Grocers gave them a big jump in the South, with nearly 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.

    What is Winn-Dixie?

    William Milton Davis and his sons opened several grocery stores in Miami in the 1920s and began purchasing and absorbing other stores. Over the next several decades, they acquired hundreds of other stores and chains, including the Winn & Lovett chain in the 1930s and the 117-store Dixie Home chain in the 1950s. They were rebranded as Winn-Dixie and expanded throughout Florida and the South.

    Winn-Dixie continued to expand until the company encountered financial problems that forced it to close 120 stores in 2004 and file for bankruptcy in 2005. In 2006, Winn-Dixie was acquired by Bi-Lo Holdings for $530 million. The new company became Southeastern Grocers, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018 to reorganize. The company has also launched a plan to renovate all of its locations. “More than 70% of Winn-Dixie locations have been renovated, with the remainder on track by 2024,” the Winn-Dixie website says.

    In March 2024, Southeastern Grocers was acquired by Aldi.

    Winn-Dixie Stores is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

    What is Aldi?

    took It is a no-frills, international grocery chain with no coupons and few big-brand products. You pay a quarter to get a shopping cart (you get it back when you return it) and pack your own groceries with empty boxes from the store, bags you buy there, or containers you pick up from home.

    There’s a “Twice is Better” guarantee to double your money on store-brand products, and the chain offers it regularly. “FOUND” Limited-time offers and other discounted deals that change weekly or seasonally. The company does not offer a membership program, although it announced it as a joke in April a new, free, subscription-free, card-free program With 331.9 million members (that is, the population of the United States), they are still able to get the same low prices they offer.

    The Aldi chain was founded in 1946 by Karl and Theo Albrecht (Aldi is short for “Albrecht Diskont”). After getting into an argument over whether cigarettes should be sold in stores, the brothers split the company in 1960 into Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd, both of which operated international stores in different regions. US stores, including the new Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores, are operated by Aldi Süd. Aldi Nord also owns Trader Joe’s.

    Aldi USA is headquartered in Batavia, Illinois.

    Winn-Dixie since the 1920s”beef people,” although they have used more than one slogan in recent years: “This Is a Win!” since 2018.

    Aldi does not offer a meat counter.

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    It also doesn’t have a deli, pharmacy, bakery or liquor store. There are no elaborate exhibits, no overhead music, a much smaller selection with few product brand knockoffs, lots of house brands, and fewer open hours. The purpose of all this, the company says, is to keep prices low.

    It remains to be seen what Aldi will do with the sizable space, which will include a Winn-Dixie or Harveys store at each location. according to Jacksonville Daily RecordA permit under review for a local Harveys conversion shows plans to transform a 46,189-square-foot space into a 21,839-square-foot Aldi store.

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