Piggly Wiggly Food For Less to open second Montgomery store

Piggly Wiggly Food For Less is about to open its third store in our area, replacing a former Winn-Dixie.

Piggly Wiggly Food For Less will open at 10AM on Thursday, March 5, in the former Winn-Dixie store on Mobile Highway in Montgomery.  It is part of a family-owned chain based in Panama City, Florida, that has more than one dozen stores. The company is also converting other former Winn-Dixie stores in Florida and Georgia.

Piggly Wiggly Food For Less uses a “cost plus 10%” pricing model. Shoppers pay the store’s cost for items, with 10% added to that amount at the register.

In January, Piggly Wiggly Food For Less opened in the former Winn-Dixie in Wetumpka and in the former Sturbridge Winn-Dixie on Vaughn Road in Montgomery.

Piggly Wiggly stores are independently owned, so not every store has the same owner.

As Action 8 News has reported, Winn-Dixie announced last fall that it was pulling out of Alabama to focus on its home state of Florida and extreme south Georgia. It had once had a major presence in our part of the state.

In our area, Winn-Dixie stores in Millbrook and Opelika have recently closed. A buyer for those stores hasn’t been announced. Other former Winn-Dixie stores in Selma, Auburn and on Carter Hill Road in Montgomery were among those bought by Aldi and have reopened as stores of that chain. The former Winn-Dixie in Prattville has reopened as Piggly Wiggly.

CLICK HERE to see the list of Winn-Dixie stores in Southeast and who is buying them.