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Your Local Winn Dixie Is Being Sold To ALDI
August 16, 2023
Winn Dixie stores are being sold to ALDI.
ALDI announced Wednesday morning that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket as part of a larger divestiture of Southeastern Grocers to various entities.
The Southeast-focused acquisition includes approximately 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket locations across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. Some of the Winn Dixie stores will be converted to ALDI, while others will continue to operate as Winn Dixie. Plans for specific stores have not been announced.
Like ALDI, Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket have long histories and many loyal customers in the Southeast and we look forward to serving them in the years to come,” said Jason Hart, CEO, ALDI. “The time was right to build on our growth momentum and help residents in the Southeast save on their grocery bills. The transaction supports our long-term growth strategy across the United States, including plans to add 120 new stores nationwide this year to reach a total of more than 2,400 stores by year-end.”
ALDI first established its presence in the Southeast in the mid-1990s and since has invested $2.5 billion in the region. Most recently, ALDI deepened its roots in the region, opening its 26th regional headquarters and distribution center in Loxley, Alabama to help support new stores, with plans to open 20 new ALDI locations in the area by the end of the year.
In the local area, Aldi has two stores in Pensacola and one in Pace.
The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2024, subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions.
Pictured top: The Winn Dixie store in Cantonment. Pictured below: The ALDI store on Mobile Highway in Pensacola. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
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48 Responses to “Your Local Winn Dixie Is Being Sold To ALDI”
we have aldi here in mobile al. its like a dollar general sams club. be ready to bag ur own groceries and buy there reusable bags. they have alot of good products there. eggs are very cheap nice produce selection. Alot of brands ive never heard of but they taste good. I love buying my meat from winn dixie thats gonna be the true downfall where will i buy meat
I love ALDI!!!!!!!!! This is awesome!!
Dollar General Market and Piggly Wiggly in Chumuckla, here we come
From what I hear about off-brands and poor selection I doubt i will even try Aldi. WD always wanted a membership card or they would charge you double price, their selection will no doubt suffer. poor choices everywhere, inconvience seems to be the trend nowdays anyway. Nothing is as good as it used to be.
Unfortunately, my Aldis is somewhat of my area, however, when I get to shop there, it’s a treat! Being from Germany, I love all the “German Kitchen” stuff. I love the products and am amazed at the price difference. I also appreciate the inspiration to return the basket to the proper place to the otherwise neglectful shoppers. Further, no bags is helping the environment !!!! I am excited for more Aldis and it’s totally my store!!!!!!
I absolutely love love love Aldi, I’m exited about more opening possibly even closer to me.
NO PHARMACY AT ALDI….
Just visited the Winn-Dixie which is my PHARMACY and Great Trustworthy Advice for my Health Care and found out that When ALDI Takes Over, the Winn-Dixie PHARMACY Will CLOSE.
Guess time to start checking on other pharmacies for my transition….Dang!!!!
Will we ever get a Rouses or Whole Foods? I’ll stick with Publix. No Aldi!!
Not planning on shopping at Aldi. Winn Dixie yes, Aldi No. I will probably transfer my prescriptions to mail order, while also doing my shopping at Publix, Grocery Outlet, Walmart and Everman’s.
I can’t stand ALDI, they son’t carry the brands I use. I guess I’ll have to start shopping at Wal-Mart again.
After visiting an Aldi three times now, I haven’t bought anything. I’m not familiar with those off-brands, so not wasting my money on what they would taste like. Some of the produce was terrible looking. WD is known as the “beef people” and that is the absolute truth. WD in Eastgate Shopping Center is the best.
Transferring prescriptions from WD to CVS – my insurance doesn’t take CVS. Now I must wait and see what happens with the Pharmacies at WD.
Aldi sells “Never Any” sliced rotisserie chicken in a package- a processed food. Not a whole roasted chicken.
Aldi hires very few people. So rent a cart to return it for your quarter refund and bring your own shopping bags and bag your own groceries. Being old is no fun at Aldi.
Yes, WD stores are too big for Aldi’s. You can fit several Aldi’s in one WD store.
Aldi only sells wine and beer so get your rum, whiskey, bourbon etc , elsewhere.
Sounds too familiar when Albertson’s, Delchamps , and Food World’s closed. Then along came Publix and Walmart Neighborhood Markets.
Forget these Aldi stores and if there is a WD close by then I’ll shop there. Otherwise, it will be Publix and Walmart.
Aldi Meats: A crowd favorite, however, is USDA Choice Black Angus Beef. USDA Choice is given by the Department of Agriculture to meats that are of high-quality standards – one spot behind Prime meat.
Even though Aldi produces USDA Black Angus, they only charge around $4.50 per pound, compared to other local grocery stores that charge $7.99.
Their ground beef falls a little short since they tend to over ground the meat.
NNNNNOOOOOOO0 Why
Having lived up North awhile, I can tell you Aldi’s is the least popular grocery store because of the off brands they sell. I hate it for good ol’ Winn Dixie. They’ll go downhill fast. I’ve seen it first hand. YOU MESSED UP, WD!
FWIW, also aldi is very woke. I avoid woke corporations as much as possible.
What?!!! No Piggly Wiggly?!!!!
Winn Dixie… one of the last remaining “Southern Originals”
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please keep the 9 Mile Winn Dixie Store!!!! My husband and I love shopping there. Clean store, helpful employees, familiar food items. Please, please leave this Winn Dixie site alone!!!!!!!
HELLO–HELLO???
Tried calling the phone for Aldi on Blue Angel and got recording saying that Due to a Shortage of employees they could not answer calls and was redirected to a voice mail system.
I hope the numbers online have been updated and I just didn’t call the new numbers.
I sure am going to miss the guys in their red shorts in the ads………not!
@Samantha,
When the WD on Mobile Hwy was closed, our Rx was transferred to CVS through a deal the companies made.
Um those worried about your quarter. You get it back when you return the cart. They don’t have carts littering the parking lot.
They generally sell generic and not named brands. If you go in thinking it’s just another grocery store you will be wrong.
I’ll miss winn-Dixie meat.
I love the simple order of Aldi’s including their shopping carts all in a row at the store instead of all over the parking lot. The price on their black cherries this summer has been outstanding. My cat loves their treats at only $1.25 a bag. I never feel cheated when I shop there. Their employees are helpful too! This is good news.
Winn dixie has been going downhill for awhile but Aldi is downhill right from the start. Those stores are absolute trash.
Try Greers. My favorite.
More business for Publix
I really hope that they leave the Winn dixie alone in Cantonment. Aldi will have no one in its store to help any one. they maybe have 10 employees think of all the people in the tuff times that will lose their job. Many whom have been working there for years get ready to pay for a shopping cart bring your own bags. Not many choices to choose from and if you find something you like it wont be there next time you go back for more
SMH
The quarter deposit shopping cart deal encourages at least some people to bring the shopping carts back and line them up neatly. Surprise – in most countries it’s unheard off to find shopping carts in ditches, apartment complexes – not to mention all over the parking lots between cars.
I shopped Aldi in Mobile for the first time recently and it was terrible. It’s very small and they sell brands no one ever heard of. And it wasn’t less expensive than Walmart.
NEED TO KNOW…..How will this affect the pharmacy and prescriptions???
Went to an Aldi in Asheville, NC recently. Small, lack of selection, produce is sub-par (BTW, Cantonment WD produce is terrible), meat department lacking.
Beulah Publix, here I come.
Just what I want to do but my grocery bags and lose the variety of choices I have.
Perhaps the larger footprint stores (like 29) could become Trader Joes?!? Please !!
I will miss Winn-Dixie here on 29 if they replace with an Aldi. But hoping they keep it Winn-Dixie and maybe just add some of Aldi’s products. But, I really miss the Food World that was on Mobile Hwy. off of 9 mile. Just loved…loved…it!
Do people still go to brick-and-mortar stores? LOL Makes no difference to me, change it to a gas station.
this is supposed to be good news… the disappearance of real grocery stores is a shame. whats next groceries from vending machines… btw JR a quarter to rent a shopping cart, hilarious
I’d rather they put a Rouses in than another Aldi.
I love Aldi! When eggs were $8 a dozen everywhere else they were still $3 or less at Aldi, just one example.
Please don’t switch the one in Cantonment. Aldi doesn’t have good vegetables. I like some things but the vegetables are not good.
I hope they keep WD on 29 and don’t replace it with an Aldi
Aren’t the stores too big for Aldi? Let me tell you, Aldi isn’t all that and a bag of chips. They have a few things priced good, but honestly it isn’t all that and a beer with that bag of chips! Of course Wynn Dixie isn’t either!
No!! We don’t need a Aldi. That store sucks soooo bad!!!
Asking for a friend – Does Aldi’s have rotisserie chicken!!
Wow. This is unbelievable!!!!! Winn-Dixie is gone.
I hope Bayou Blvd is one of the WD that will be an Aldi. I hate driving across town to get to one.
What will happen to the pharmacy and our prescriptions?
Let me know when Wegman’s is coming here. Then I will be excited!
Going to miss WD.
Should have saw it coming, with the new shopping carts, with the quarter slot.