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re: RIP Winn-Dixie :( ALDI is buying them all and converting them into ALDI

Posted on 8/16/23 at 4:22 pm to
Posted by Undertow
Member since Sep 2016
7314 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 4:22 pm to
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All seems to be about local management


When I first started in the grocery business 24 years ago all of management were people who started in the grocery business at the bottom and worked their way up. People who knew the industry. Now they hire anyone off the street, give them computer courses, maybe a class, and put them in charge of things they know nothing about.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
6404 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 4:38 pm to
quote:

Super 1 is the best grocery store chain I experienced in Louisiana.


He's on shrooms and drunk. Super1 was where I went as a broke arse college student to decide whether I was buying peanut butter this week, or jelly.

WD only "succeeded" because they were marginally better than the supposed independents with Associated Grocers, and Baton Rouge didn't have a lot of alternatives back in the day. They killed themselves off with their pricing.

Edited to remove the extra set of offensive quote marks.
This post was edited on 8/16/23 at 5:41 pm
Posted by Undertow
Member since Sep 2016
7314 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 4:42 pm to
Posted by Play_Neck
Member since Dec 2014
1846 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 4:43 pm to
Winn Dixie (so. grocers, etc., that have owned them) has gone bankrupt least a couple times, I believe. Probably not the worst thing for them.
Posted by St Augustine
The Pauper of the Surf
Member since Mar 2006
64160 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 5:29 pm to
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Publix was considered expanding into Louisiana at one point.


Louisiana folks would talk so much shite about Publix and how it isn't Louisiana enough, they'd be the shittiest Publix in America.
Posted by WaltWhite504
Member since Sep 2021
1321 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 5:33 pm to
Aldi owns Trader Joe's - i wouldn't mind that
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
15513 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 5:35 pm to
That is really sad. I think ALDI is inferior to Winn Dixie.
Posted by Strannix
District 11
Member since Dec 2012
48888 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 5:38 pm to
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Feel like someone recently commented somewhere on this site that they thought it odd that Winn-Dixie hasn't been forced to remove Dixie from their name... And now today that will essentially happen


Lol ALDI was founded by a NAZI soldier
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
35476 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 5:44 pm to
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Lol ALDI was founded by a NAZI soldier
Wehrmacht soldier, and he was drafted. Not that anyone will bother with the distinction if they want to protest something.
Posted by Strannix
District 11
Member since Dec 2012
48888 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 5:45 pm to
One in Africa one on Eastern Front
Posted by t00f
Not where you think I am
Member since Jul 2016
89784 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 5:51 pm to
Went to the one in Metry to check it out, place was trashy, people shopping there were trashy, very small and not much of a selection.

Bought some dip and crackers, asked for a bag, they said we don’t have bags and I walked out and said frick this place.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
34517 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 6:28 pm to
My very first job was at Winn-Dixie when I was 15 back in March of '97. Stayed there till they closed in November of '98.

Time flies.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
34517 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 6:29 pm to
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Aldi sucks, it feels like you are shopping under communism in there.

Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
9433 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 6:57 pm to
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Are you drunk? Super 1 here is worse than County Market ever dreamed of being. Hard to believe these are owned by Brookshires.


I said Lafayette. The super 1’s around Lafayette are awesome. The ones up north where you are must be completely different. Go to one’s in acadiana and report back.
Posted by Stealth Matrix
29°59'55.98"N 90°05'21.85"W
Member since Aug 2019
7806 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 6:59 pm to
This is K&B/Rite Aid all over again. Over half of the converted Winn-Dixie stores will be closed in 3 years.
This post was edited on 8/16/23 at 7:02 pm
Posted by BayouENGR
Seagrove Beach
Member since Nov 2015
2291 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:06 pm to
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Speaking of HEB, they really should have stores in LC and Lafayette.


HEB really should have stores on the Florida panhandle!

Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
7382 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:07 pm to
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Along with Piggly Wiggly


All Piggly Wiggly’s are a franchise, a local ownership group owns the store and just licenses the name from C&S Wholesale Grocers.
Posted by Hester Carries
Member since Sep 2012
22403 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:25 pm to
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Am I the only person who doesn’t like Aldi?


Aldi sucks…..

Ive got no problem bagging my own shite if i can also scan my own shite.

But to wait in line at the single register as someone who is sitting down scans my stuff and throws it haphazardly into a randomly placed shopping cart and then immediately starts scanning the next guys shite while im just looking at this shopping cart thats not mine and i cant wheel away full of my loose shite is not my kind of grocery experience.


Put self check outs in there or act like a normal store.
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
10590 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:32 pm to
odd that Winn-Dixie hasn't been forced to remove Dixie from their name.
—-call it Aldi-Dixie
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
10590 posts
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:38 pm to
Aldi is way better anyways.

-People who say or write “anyways” are dumb.
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