Another former Winn-Dixie to reopen as Piggly Wiggly Food For Less
Another former Winn-Dixie store is about to reopen as a part of the Florida-based grocery chain Piggly Wiggly Food For Less.
The store at Sturbridge on Vaughn Road is scheduled to reopen at 10AM Wednesday after being closed for several weeks to undergo the conversion. That store opened as a Winn-Dixie in 1993.
The former Winn-Dixie on U.S. Highway 231 in Wetumpka reopened as Piggly Wiggly Food For Less last week.
The family-owned chain is based in Panama City and plans to reopen the former Winn-Dixie on Mobile Highway in Montgomery’s Southlawn area in the coming weeks. That will give it three stores in our local area to add to its existing stores and other former Winn-Dixie locations it has bought in Florida and south Georgia.
Piggly Wiggly stores are independently owned and operated, so not every Piggly Wiggly has the same owner.
The Piggly Wiggly Food For Less stores used a “cost +10%” model, in which shoppers pay the store’s cost for items, with 10% added to that amount at the register.
As Action 8 News reported last fall, Winn-Dixie is exiting Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and most of Georgia to focus on its home state of Florida and extreme south Georgia. It had once had a major grocery presence in our part of the state. Over the years, as it went through two bankruptcies, the number of stores dwindled.
Elsewhere in our area, clearance sales are underway at Winn-Dixie stores in Millbrook and Opelika. Those stores are scheduled to close in the coming weeks, with no buyer announced.
