Another supermarket institution dies today along with King Kullen as the 70-year-old Birmingham, AL chain calls it quits
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Western Supermarkets disbanding, Publix to buy two locations
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Re: Western Supermarkets disbanding, Publix to buy two locations
Only four locations, looks like, and none of them in particularly good shape for two to close and one to get rebuilt as a Publix. Only one will actually continue to be a grocery store, with Greenwise going in instead.cathandler wrote: ↑January 4th, 2019, 11:01 am Another supermarket institution dies today along with King Kullen as the 70-year-old Birmingham, AL chain calls it quits
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Re: Western Supermarkets disbanding, Publix to buy two locations
Western Market has three locations. One location is closing outright as it is being redeveloped into a mixed use development.
The affeceted locations being acquired by Publix Super Markets:
The Rocky Ridge Square location was initially Winn-Dixie. (Winn-DIxie replaced its Rocky Ridge Square location with a Winn-DIxie Marketplace store at 1300 Montgomery Highway, Vestavia Hills, Alabama 35216-2702. WInn-Dixie Marketplace was replaced by Walmart Neighborhood Market #4580.) Publix Super Markets will demolish Western Market and the adjacent former Rocky Ridge Drug Company for a 35,000-square-foot Publix supermarket with food and pharmacy.
The affeceted locations being acquired by Publix Super Markets:
- (Mountain Brook) 1000 Jemison Lane, Birmingham (Jefferson County), Alabama 35223-1001
- Rocky Ridge Square, 3350 Morgan Drive, Vestavia Hills (Jefferson County), Alabama 35216-3052
The Rocky Ridge Square location was initially Winn-Dixie. (Winn-DIxie replaced its Rocky Ridge Square location with a Winn-DIxie Marketplace store at 1300 Montgomery Highway, Vestavia Hills, Alabama 35216-2702. WInn-Dixie Marketplace was replaced by Walmart Neighborhood Market #4580.) Publix Super Markets will demolish Western Market and the adjacent former Rocky Ridge Drug Company for a 35,000-square-foot Publix supermarket with food and pharmacy.
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Re: Western Supermarkets disbanding, Publix to buy two locations
It's not unusual for Publix to tear down stores and build new ones and sometimes, they are close in size to the ones they demolish--there were several A&Ps in the Atlanta area like this and the stores were not especially old (probably less than 20 years old) and often newer than stores that they kept intact.