This Winn-Dixie, along with all the other Winn Dixies in the Carolinas, shut down last summer. Winn Dixie had a big impact on the Charlotte market throughout its history, but never could become the #1 grocer in the city. This store near Pineville was originally built in 1987. Drug Emporium used to also be in this shopping center where Dollar Tree/Rugged Warehouse are today.(Pic via screenshot from WCNC)
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That looks like a nice Winn-Dixie.
Hey...atleast it's not a southern family market now...
Haha. Very good point.
With Bi-Lo or Winn-Dixie markings still on their packaging no less!
that wd wasnt a shining star of wd... 4 years prior it would have been... but lately its clientele had eroded. wd's best examples were in smaller towns such as kings mountain and dallas, nc.
I agree with you. Winn Dixie's stronger stores were definately in the smaller outlying towns.
As of April 2007, it was split into Rec Warehouse and Staples.
I worked at this store in the late 90's, at the time it was the most successful Winn Dixie anywhere around. Very clean and huge, the manager told me at the time that we were making around $250K a week in sales. After it closed, it was turned into a Staples and Rec Warehouse, but in late 2015 was recombined and turned into a huge Wal-Mart grocery store. It looks nothing like this now, they reconfigured the entire front and interior, but the actual big-box is the exact same footprint.
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