pseudo3d wrote:Winn-Dixie in Texas, as wnetmacman has noted before, was a rather odd operation with scattered markets. They had a number of stores in D-FW (even a DC and a whole division), but even in the early 1990s didn't even dent the top 5 according to that other thread where I posted about Kroger in DFW (the top five in 1992, just prior to the Skaggs/Albertsons purchase, was Jewel-Osco, Tom Thumb, Kroger, Minyard, and then Albertsons--the J-O name being the short-lived rebrand of Skaggs Alpha Beta). The only other markets I know of outside the immediate D-FW area (not counting North Texas, as I do understand there were a few in Oklahoma) were Waco (three stores, all of which were former Safeway/AppleTree stores) and Bryan-College Station (2 stores, though one closed in the late 1990s). None of them dominated the grocery market even during their peak (though the Waco ones fended off Albertsons) and none remain as grocery stores today (two became offices almost immediately, one became an Atwoods Ranch & Home, one became a furniture store, and one remained as a string of Mexican supermarkets, but is now vacant). 2002 put a merciful end to a division that should've been aborted in the 1990s, really.
Outside of what you mention, WD also had stores in:
Longview (3 locations, but only 1 by the end)
Carthage (closed 1991)
Marshall (an extremely expanded store)
Henderson
Jacksonville (Marketplace)
Gun Barrel City
Athens
Kilgore (former Safeway)
Denton (Marketplace)
Wichita Falls
Abilene
Sweetwater
And several others in between; these are the ones I can verify.
The Texas division was originally Kimbell, Inc., which became Buddies later. It was a special purchase; WD had been barred from acquisitions by the FTC until 1976; this was the middle finger to them at that point.
Knight wrote:This would be the Food Pavilion concept found in select Winn-Dixie Marketplace stores in the mid-1990's. These stores existed in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
The Lafayette store closing had an abbreviated Food Pavilion, since it wasn't built as a Marketplace. It was removed in 2001-2002.
Knight wrote:I think Winn-Dixie had nearly 1,178 stores prior to 2000. At the present, Publix has 1,145 stores in a smaller footprint.
I think Southeastern Grocers executed bad decisions under McLeod to turn away customers instead of making the necessary decisions to remain competitive. Bad decisions include banner conversions to Harvey's Supermarkets and Fresco y Más, the closing of pharmacy departments in underachieving stores, and not exiting specific markets.
That was their height. I don't just blame McLeod, though the company has made sure to pin everything on him. WD has never treated pharmacy whole-heartedly. The Banner conversions are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.
Knight wrote:Southeastern Grocers should exit Louisiana and Mississippi. Rouse's. Walmart, and Albertson's are present indeed. Additional supermarket competition could arrive with Publix.
Albertsons only competes directly in three cities: Lafayette (well, for now), Baton Rouge and Hammond. Walmart is a threat to all of them. Rouses is expanding. I expect them to get at least one of these stores.