What Will Happen to Your Winn-Dixie, BI-LO or Harveys Store? The Latest List

The latest updates:

May 31:
Southeastern Grocers announced today that it “has successfully completed its financial restructuring and has emerged from Chapter 11 in record timing”. The announcement highlighted the fact that the company will continue to operate more than 575 stores, with nearly 100 of them due to be remodeled this year. So if your local store isn’t on any of the below lists of stores to be sold or closed, it appears safe to say that it has officially made it out the other side of this whole process.

May 29:
A Winn-Dixie store in Orlando that was to be have been sold in order to become an America’s Food Basket, will no longer. Southeastern Grocers has withdrawn the proposed sale. There’s no word on whether the store will remain a Winn-Dixie, or close down without a new owner, though the store was originally listed as being slated for closure.

April 26:
Publix is picking up a BI-LO store in Seneca, South Carolina that was originally slated for closure, and Food Lion is purchasing several more South Carolina BI-LO locations. See the list of affected stores in the updated list below.

April 20:
Southeastern Grocers has announced the sale of five more stores, all of them Winn-Dixie locations in Florida, to the operators of the grocery co-op America’s Food Basket. Notably, all of these stores were initially listed last month as being marked for closure. So the America’s Food Basket deal ensures they will remain open, under new ownership.

Meanwhile, several Winn-Dixie stores previously announced as having buyers, will instead be sold to others – Autry Greer & Sons will pick up a store in Robertsdale, Alabama that was originally slated to be sold to Manning, Inc., while Publix is purchasing a store in Gulf Shores, Alabama, also originally announced as being sold to Manning. And Food Fair Wholesale Fresh Market is buying a Winn-Dixie in Pembroke Pines, Florida, that was originally slated to be sold to Ram Distributors.

April 19:
Nearly a month after it officially filed for bankruptcy, Southeastern Grocers is beginning to announce agreements to sell several of its stores to various competitors. And it’s going about it somewhat differently than previous bankrupt grocers have.

Prior to its bankruptcy filing in March, the company listed nearly 100 locations that it planned to shut down. But it never listed any specific locations that were being marketed for sale. Instead, it’s announcing sale agreements piecemeal, and employees and shoppers who likely were not aware their stores were on the market, are finding out as it happens.

What follows is a list of each store whose fate is known, which will be continually updated as new sale agreements or closing plans are announced.

STORES TO BE SOLD TO FOOD LION:

STORE TO BE SOLD TO PUBLIX:

* Store now being sold, that was previously announced as closing down

STORES TO BE SOLD TO AMERICA’S FOOD BASKET:

* Store now being sold, that was previously announced as closing down
** Sale agreement withdrawn, see May 29th entry above

SALE AGREEMENTS ANNOUNCED PRIOR TO BANKRUPTCY:

** Outbid previously-announced buyers

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED – BI-LO STORES TO CLOSE:

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED – FRESCO STORE TO CLOSE:

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED – HARVEYS STORES TO CLOSE:

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED – WINN-DIXIE STORES TO CLOSE:

Image source: Southeastern Grocers