The Story of Winn-Dixie #445: Birmingham, AL
Michigan Left in the dust.
Future Unknown – Possibly Food City
Winn-Dixie #445 (2013-2026)
Bruno’s #4: 1989 - 2009
Inverness Corners Shopping Center | 500 Inverness Corners | Birmingham, AL 35242
In life, looks can be deceiving. From the outside, one would think that Birmingham’s Winn-Dixie #445 would be worthy of “flagship” status from the Floridian grocer; however, there is a much bleaker story to tell once the outer layers have been peeled back.
Throughout the process of researching ALDI’s acquisition of Winn-Dixie, I have talked with many different people and learned countless interesting facts – ones that provide immense color to developments that would otherwise make little sense.
One of those facts was that the two Winn-Dixie supermarkets which remained in Birmingham through March 2026 were surprisingly poor performers, especially #445. From what I saw, Inverness Corners’ single-day gross sales only averaged in the low-$30,000 range: a paltry performance which was only met or subceeded by #599 in Fairhope, Alabama, or #1583 in LaPlace, Louisiana. For comparison, there are standalone liquor stores which do two-thirds of that volume in a day while most Winn-Dixie supermarkets typically double those numbers. Winn-Dixie #81 in Lake City, Florida, nearly tripled that average. Former Winn-Dixie #1443 in Covington, Louisiana, nearly quadrupled it.
Despite this information simply being from a snapshot in time, it speaks volumes to why certain outcomes occurred. Do you think it is a coincidence that the three seemingly lowest-performing stores in the divested regions have no known buyers? I think not.
So, how did it get to be this way?
Well, we can start with one of the most obvious reasons why sales at this store are so dismal: Publix. The Lakeland-based grocer operates four stores within a 10 minute drive of this Winn-Dixie, the closest of which opened in 2019 and featured the only Apron’s cooking school in the state of Alabama (a flagship feature, if you ask me). Combine this with the fact that many residents of Birmingham’s nicer suburbs either would not consider shopping at Winn-Dixie due to the brand’s “baggage” or would rather score the lower prices from the Walmart across the street, and you have a recipe for disaster. After all, what was the value proposition for shoppers to visit this store during its final years?
Don’t get me wrong, I am a big proponent for encouraging people to check out the “new” Winn-Dixie, but I am also grounded in reality. The Beef People simply have a lot of work to do if they care to survive.
Times may change, yes, but history is also destined to repeat itself.
The thing is Winn-Dixie’s time in the upscale southern suburbs of Birmingham has been a bit rocky for the last 20-some-odd years. Despite the positive headlines of amazing new stores, there has been an equal number of quiet closures. This location was simply the final straw. Let’s rewind the tape to see what brought us here.
This busy stretch of US Highway 280 is located just 15 minutes from Downtown Birmingham, and is situated on the eastern edge of Hoover, a suburb which was rapidly growing with young couples and families in the late-1980’s. Birmingham’s southern suburbs were especially popular with people who wanted a nicer house outside of the city center but couldn’t quite afford a coveted Mountain Brook zip code.
During the summer of 1989, Kmart and Bruno’s announced plans to anchor a new 230,000-square-foot shopping center at the corner of 280 and Valleydale Road; the new shopping center was notably situated opposite an existing Bruno’s Food World-anchored plaza, yet both grocery stores managed to coexist for over a decade.
Bruno’s #4 opened on September 20, 1990, as co-anchor to the new Inverness Corners. The simultaneous grand openings for the 55,000-square-foot supermarket and the 85,000-square-foot Kmart were attended by top executives from both companies.
While initially thinking it was odd for Kmart Chairman Joseph Antonini to travel down to Alabama just for a grand opening, I realized that 1990 was during the height of the two chains’ joint venture, American Fare. It seems likely that those top businessmen wanted to exhibit their mutual goodwill while also seizing upon the opportunity for a strategic meeting or two. I have to wonder if the partnership would have extended beyond three hypermarket stores had Angelo Bruno (pictured above) and six other top executives not been killed in a 1991 plane crash. The article does state that American Fare stores were still being “fine-tuned;” however, they were “very close” to being profitable.
In any regard, Inverness Corners was described by Bruno’s President and CEO, Ronald Bruno, as, “one of the prettiest shopping centers we’re in. . . This is by far the best store we’ve opened yet.” The new store included many upscale amenities, such as, “the chain’s first off-premises mini Vincent’s delicatessen with prepared foods shipped in daily from the Bruno’s-owned Vincent’s delicatessen at Brookwood Village,” and a branch of First American Bank of Pelham.
The Hoover Bruno’s appears to have been a carbon copy of the old store #82 in Center Point that I photographed several years ago. Heck, even the décor placement in the Inverness store’s newspaper image lines up perfectly with what I saw in the modern Food Giant!
In my 2024 post, I stated that, “I couldn't tell if the decor was original to Bruno's, but it is plausible that the Food Giant graphics were placed on top of old Bruno's stuff. The decor felt very 1990's to me, especially with the piece of wallpapered trim that ran around the perimeter of the store.” I’m certainly glad to know that my hunch was correct; that trip proved very fruitful!
We all, by now, should know that Bruno’s eventually died a slow and painful death. It is no coincidence considering the leadership void left behind by the plane crash and the subsequent mismanagement from private equity.
A 2009 Birmingham News article cites David J. Livingston, a Wisconsin-based grocery industry analyst in saying, “[Private equity] companies aren’t in the business of growing. They’re more in the business of milking. Their job is just to squeeze as much money out of the company as they can. They don’t have long-term aspirations, and whatever problems they have become the next owner’s issue.” Over seventeen-years later, that quote rings true as ever; just take a look at what has transpired with Winn-Dixie over the last five years . . .
In addition to being reworked for a different business model, Bruno’s was, “caught in an hourglass of competition . . . as Wal-Mart entered Alabama with its Supercenter stores and gobbled up grocery market share on the lower end, while Publix did the same on the higher end.”
This essentially resulted in the middle players, such as Delchamps, Winn-Dixie, and Bruno’s, being squeezed out of the game and into oblivion. The article states how, “As recently as September 2005, Bruno’s had 36 stores and a market share of about 22 percent in the Birmingham area, according to trade publication The Shelby Report. But as of the fourth quarter of 2008, Bruno’s had just 22 stores, with an 11.1 percent market share, the publication said.
Wal-Mart, with 23 stores, commanded 46 percent of the market, while Publix, which entered the Birmingham area in 2002, had an 11.3 percent share with 16 stores.”
It is quite damning to see how Bruno’s halved its market share in a mere three-year window all while Publix picked up an equal share, starting from zero, in six. Publix certainly doesn’t play around when it comes to town.
Meanwhile, the Beef People were doing some expansion of their own in the area during the 1990’s.
Just under four miles down Valleydale Road, Winn-Dixie opened store #514 on May 27, 1993, as the first Marketplace in the Birmingham area; it also happened to be one of the last Marketplace stores to open with the neon & chrome interior from the 1980’s.
Winn-Dixie enjoyed publishing extensive write-ups in local newspapers whenever a Marketplace store opened, and being a regional first, this store received plenty of limelight. It appears that all of the photos above could have been taken at #514, despite the company often including stock photos from a variety of different locations. In any regard, these pictures were taken from stores of the same prototype, at a minimum.
The photos and map also indicate that this store used the Marketplace layout pioneered during the mid-1980’s which included significantly lower ceilings over the produce and floral departments (hence why the picture of the apples above looks like it was taken in a cave).
Faux skylights were all the rage in supermarkets from the 1990’s and this store certainly delivered. Light boxes were not only positioned above the bakery counter (as seen above) but were also included above the produce patch and the cash registers to provide light and depth to an otherwise cavernous volume.
Given it bore the Winn-Dixie name, this store lived a remarkably long life and closed for good on November 19, 2013 – 20 years and six months after it opened. This wasn’t a sad closure, either, because the old Valleydale Marketplace was directly replaced by the then-new Transformational store we’ll tour today; this was one of only six new stores company-wide to open between the 2005 bankruptcy and the 2014 Sweetbay conversions.
The old store didn’t sit vacant for long following The Beef People’s departure given that a Walmart Neighborhood Market opened in the space by 2015. The Walmart continues to operate to this day.
The Valleydale Marketplace may have been the store that Inverness Corners directly replaced, but Brook Highland Plaza’s Winn-Dixie #417 is the store it replaced in spirit.
Positioned almost directly across 280 from the modern Winn-Dixie, this 48,000-square-foot Marketplace store & deli café opened on April 6, 1995, as part of the larger Brook Highland Plaza development project. The center was constructed just over the Shelby County line from Birmingham and included the likes of Wal-Mart, Goody’s, Books-A-Million, Drugs for Less, and Cobb Theaters as original tenants.
The Winn-Dixie would have looked like this on the inside when it opened and likely utilized the familiar 1990’s layout paired with the rose & teal interior.
When nearby Chelsea’s Winn-Dixie #509 opened in 1999, The Birmingham News noted how shoppers in the growing suburb would no longer have to travel seven miles to the next-closest grocery store, #417. Was WD unintentionally beginning to cannibalize itself?
Unfortunately, it seems so, because out of the 44 Birmingham-area Winn-Dixie stores operating in 2005, #417 was one of 16 to shutter as a result of the bankruptcy. Chelsea’s #509 was lucky enough to live on to see the ALDI bloodbath of 2025, but the lack of investment in that supermarket likely means it was not a top performer.
The Brook Highland store later became a Dick’s Sporting Goods shortly after Winn-Dixie’s departure and is now home to a Best Buy. How many other supermarket to Best Buy conversions can you think of? Well, one in particular comes to mind for me . . .
Returning to Inverness Corners, the old Bruno’s building sat vacant following the Birmingham-based grocer’s exodus in the summer of 2009.
Two years later, Hoover Mayor Gary Ivey proudly announced that Winn-Dixie was poised to set up shop in the old Bruno’s and transform the space as part of a broader push to fill vacant “big box” stores across the city. Construction on the building didn’t begin until March 2013 citing lease negotiations as the reason for the delay.
In any regard, the transformed Winn-Dixie store officially opened its doors on November 20, 2013. An article in 280 Living sang the praises of the new outlet as a much-needed re-invigoration of the shopping center for local businesses and residents. The new supermarket was “fine-tuned” to the locale and included a whole host of premium offerings. It offered, “an array of custom-prepared, chef-inspired meals, a selection of organic fruits and vegetables and an expanded assortment of gluten-free, allergen-free, organic and natural products. In addition, the company is installing a carving station, butcher shop, cheese shop, barbecue bar and pharmacy and will offer an extensive wine selection, fresh seafood and sushi.” I would love to know what the barbecue bar presented and how long most of those amenities were staffed and stocked. I know, for one, that most of these specialty items were long gone by the time I first visited in 2023.
In addition to the new supermarket, the article also pointed out how the owners of the shopping center spent “millions” to make “a substantial investment in improvements to the exterior. Gone are forest green rooftops and blanket brick facades, replaced by bright stucco storefronts, elegant stonework and wood ceilings.”
Around the time the store opened, ALDOT completed a “Michigan Left” which required all drivers turning left from 280 onto Valleydale Road or Cahaba Beach Road to pass the intersection and make a U-turn before then making a right turn toward the desired destination. The change was quite confusing for local drivers and was mentioned as a possible reason for shoppers to pick the nearby Publix or Walmart instead of visiting Winn-Dixie. How much did this obstacle hurt the shopping plaza in the long run?
That factor’s influence alone is hard to pinpoint; however, the broader picture is quite clear that this store did not live up to Winn-Dixie’s initial hopes and dreams. Don’t get me wrong, this space still looked very nice to the average shopper, but the fact that nobody is yet confirmed to have assumed the lease is troubling.
I was told on an unofficial basis that Food City, the same Virginia-based chain that purchased three Winn-Dixie stores north of Birmingham last year, is interested in taking over #445 but negotiations with the landlord broke down while Winn-Dixie was involved. The landlord is charging Winn-Dixie somewhere around $44,000 a month in rent and the building needs a lot of work, including major refrigeration repairs that WD wouldn’t spend the money on. If Food City does strike a deal, the store will still probably be closed for at least six months while renovations occur. Only time will tell what becomes of this space.
In spite of Winn-Dixie closing up shop, the plaza remains anchored by a Kohl’s department store where Kmart once stood along with several smaller tenants.
Taking a closer look at the supermarket, we notice that it lacks the typical exterior design of a Bruno’s from the late-1980’s. Instead, it featured prominent gable accents above each point of ingress / egress paired with a series of arches spanning the center of the façade.
Winn-Dixie bricked over both original sets of doors, which were on either side of the vestibule, and opted to carve out a new separate entrance and exit on the left side of the building.
The exit doors took the place of Bruno’s leftmost set of arched windows while the entry point could be found beyond that under Winn-Dixie’s new “Transformational” façade. I’ll also mention that this is one of only four “flat” Transformational exteriors that I’m aware of: store #2 in Jacksonville, store #306 in Hallandale Beach, and to some extent, store #510 in Miramar Beach being the others. Was this possibly a later design choice?
I should go ahead and point out that today’s tour is actually a mixture of images from three different visits: the first in February 2023, the second with Retail Retell & the Sing Oil Sidekick in September 2023, and the third in February 2026 as the store was liquidating. I decided to organize them by the store layout rather than by date taken to highlight the differences in stock and presentation.
Likewise, my shots will include vastly different scenery ranging from a Valentine’s-themed forest to a haunted hayride; I think you should be able to identify the capture times for each.
As we walked in the store on that September day, the first thing Retail Retell observed was the fact that nearly every department sign included the word “freshly”. This should not have come as a surprise to me, considering how I mentioned this in my tour of the Montevallo Road store, but his comment really hit home. I will note that the designers did cheat a bit: “freshly farmed” was by far the most popular verbiage given its appearance on two produce signs and two dairy signs. The package also neglected to include “freshly” atop inherently non-fresh departments; the text was noticeably absent from the frozen and processed meat categories.
Following our fresh new insight, we migrated toward the seasonal gourd and pumpkin display. All of a sudden, I see the Sing Oil Sidekick point out a petite pie pumpkin sporting the Winn-Dixie logo – I about lost it! Given its small size and its propensity to rot away after several months, I couldn’t resist taking home this store-branded keepsake. I didn’t need any additional long-term clutter.
Shortly thereafter, Retail Retell noticed a decorative display of Indian corn that was set up for harvest season. He posed the question of why a product that isn’t intended to be eaten was for sale with edible fruits and veggies. Well, it turns out that Indian corn is, in fact, edible as a type of popcorn; nonetheless, I shrugged and said that’s where I always seem to find it. Where else would they put it; in the empty floral department?
With the pie pumpkin, et cetera, in hand, the three of us soon realized we needed a buggy. Retail Retell resigned to grabbing one from outside, which is precisely what he did later that day at the Walmart across the street (he found some “woodland critters” that he simply could not live without).
With buggy in tow, we began to meander through the numerous fresh departments whilst Retail Retell was contemplating life (and his specific statement that he WOULD NOT photograph this store). Nevertheless, he gave into his urge, snatched his phone out of his pocket, and began to snap photos left-and-right. (Gasp! The drama!)
Retail Retell, in the end, was kind enough to pay for my pumpkin (which was $3 more expensive than at Walmart), along with the rest of his well-dressed haul. I simply returned the favor by mailing him a print of the selfie we took with Mr. P. in the produce patch. There was plenty of cheese to go around.
Speaking of cheese, he then said, “Let’s see if we can find the cheesiest ‘freshly’ sign.”
Found it. That didn’t take long. Gorgonzola is inherently not fresh.
As for the text on the major department signs, this store featured (4x) “freshly farmed,” (2x) “freshly prepared,” “freshly baked,” “freshly caught,” “freshly raised,” “luncheon meat,” “heat and eat,” and “frozen.” I feel like meat being “freshly raised” takes the cake for me (if the “cheese shop” is out of the running).
I’ll also take this time to point out the fancy Champagne cabinet with the red cooler on top. It is often fun to peruse the wine aisles of a nice store in search of the most expensive bottle, and this Winn-Dixie was surprisingly underwhelming. There were a few $60-ish bottles of French Champagne left in that cabinet; however, the beloved Fran-Dixie in Columbus had a much broader selection of fine wines (a.k.a. bottles that cost more than $20) during its final hours: none of which were behind any sort of theft deterrent. I guess the old GreenWise really does have the market cornered here.
On the topic of wine, this Winn-Dixie’s swan song still offered us a broad selection of Know & Love varieties at the old salad bar; it’s as if somebody had laid a shrine in the brand’s soon-to-be memory. We should not be sad, though, given how this salad bar was never actually filled with salad during the store’s later years. Notice the bags of potato chips in my 2023 photo, paired with the bags of tortilla chips (sporting the new Winn-Dixie Kitchen logo) in my 2026 shot.
This store was no longer slicing meat by the time I made my last visit, but worry not, one could still purchase whole SE Grocers or Dietz & Watson sandwich meat fresh from the deli (at quite the discount, I’d add).
The bakery was a bit less impressive given how all of the “freshly baked” signs were a lie by the time February rolled around. All that was left were a few frozen cakes and some bulk-bagged hotdog and sub rolls from the deli.
I caught a few perspectives of the seafood department closing up shop during my final trip. It appears as if the counter recently also offered a small selection of traditional butcher items.
Circling back to the wine and beer section, I noticed how the package had a random category sign for a wine I’ve never heard of: Shiraz.
On the topic of things I have never seen before, I realized that these category markers featured a wood gran background rather than the typical brown seen at other Transformational stores.
Once upon a time, this store was well-stocked for Halloween with Chek cola lining the shelves in purple and orange. Now, the shelves simply lay barren.
While perusing this aisle in 2023, the three retail tourists began to debate the difference between Chek’s “Kountry Mist” product and the Lemon Lime Cola. Is the former a knockoff of Sierra Mist (R.I.P.) while the latter is an imitation of Sprite? Is Kountry Mist actually impersonating Mountain Dew? I have so many questions!
Retail Retell and I trudged through the next aisles while our sidekick got distracted by a cat magazine by the registers. Are cats really that much more interesting than a rare Winn-Dixie? I think not!
Price comparisons have always been and will always be a contentious topic of discussion between supermarket brands. Since Retail Retell was largely unfamiliar with shopping at Winn-Dixie, he was naturally inclined to compare The Beef People’s prices with those of his native Kroger or Walmart. He was browsing Winn-Dixie’s Wishbone salad dressing $3.99 BOGO sale and mentioned that Walmart’s price was $2.39. I quickly responded by saying that each bottle was 39¢ cheaper at WD than at Walmart – he was startled by my quick math!
Winn-Dixie may have come out on top that week, but my price comparison this year yielded even more surprising results. I compared the regular price for a bottle of J pinot gris wine between WD, Target, and Whole Foods. Here is what I found:
Whole Foods – $17
Target – $18
Winn-Dixie – $22
(Prices are approximated due to my fallible memory.)
While I was not surprised that Target beat Winn-Dixie on price, I was floored by the fact that Whole Foods rang in the best deal (and by several dollars, at that). Winn-Dixie’s 30% clearance sale still won the race to the bottom, but if Whole Foods happened to beat the “mid-tier” grocer on many other items, we would have a recipe for disaster.
Speaking of Whole Foods, aisle four hosted this store’s selection of natural and organic products. The two most intriguing features were the wire gondola shelves and the “grab ‘n go” kombucha cooler. At least WD tried to differentiate itself.
Aisle five was home to a wide selection of international foods; I’ve always been impressed by the number of Asian items in a Winn-Dixie.
Speaking of which, the “Saucy Susan” duck sauce was this trip’s “deal of the day” followed in close second by a nine-month-expired can of Goya corned beef.
Aisle six was probably the most interesting in the store given its custom selection of Alabama local items. I’ve seen these “Alabama Pride” local signs at Winn-Dixie stores throughout the state, but I feel like the custom placard on the aisle sign seals the deal for me. “Alabama” also happens to be the only capital word on any aisle marker – not even “mexican” was worthy of this distinction!
I originally intended to share photos from my first two visits as the second installment of this year’s Marketplace Madness series; I was just grossly underwhelmed by my lackluster photo quality. Alas, I threw together a plan for a final visit mere weeks before this Winn-Dixie drew its last breath and all was well. Likewise, the majority of my 120 photos turned out to be from that last trip. At least I made it in time to see the store with mostly normal stock levels.
For those who don’t remember, Winn-Dixie’s current Know & Love house brand made its debut with one of the most random items I can think of: wood chips. The first photo above showcases a 2023 display of these barbecue enhancers before they were brutally discontinued a year later. How ruthless.
I may not have been afforded the chance to purchase some Know & Love hickory last month (okay, I may have bought some on clearance when they were discontinued a while back), but I did pass up the opportunity to buy an entire slab of cold ribs for $17.99. Rats.
Remember those greeting cards I pointed out earlier? They were strikingly absent from their normal home during my last trip. I was shocked to see them gone. Every single one. It was only after looking back through my photos when I realized the remnants were moved up front. Crisis averted.
To the left of the “heat and eat” sign was the passageway to the store’s restrooms and a vintage Toledo scale (a la Publix). Do you think Publix has bought any of these from Winn-Dixie auctions to use for spare parts?
Our second “freshly farmed” department resided on the opposite side of the store from our first. Dairy and frozen foods lined the rightmost wall of the store and still had a tolerable number of products on display last month.
The main signage for frozen foods was located in the front right corner, and Retail Retell observed that the hanging sign for frozen pie should have included something still frozen, like ice cream. Anyhow, I stood guard while he took pictures of this corner, which is strange considering how I’m usually doing the opposite.
It is also strange to see Winn-Dixie using proper vinyl tile flooring here given that earlier Transformational stores used exposed concrete.
The old pharmacy was sandwiched between the freezers & the registers and seems to have closed in 2016.
The self-checkout corral was also unique – I’ve never seen one so large in a Winn-Dixie. It must have been added later given its prominent feature of Winn Win-era signage.
The community connection café, likewise, felt abandoned and neglected. Imagine taking your remote work day from a Winn-Dixie!
That may conclude our time inside the Hoover Winn-Dixie and while the store may be gone, the memories will last a lifetime.
So long
Farewell
Auf Wiedersehn
Goodnight
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
In conclusion, Winn-Dixie #445 would ultimately close on the evening of March 22, 2026, along with six other stores across Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana. This date is significant in that it marks the end of Winn-Dixie’s 60+ year stint in both Alabama and Louisiana. Henceforth, The Beef People operate solely in Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.
Upon my return to this site in 2026, I was surprised to find a new Chick-fil-A in the parking lot. I personally love a grilled chicken club (the honey roasted BBQ sauce seals the deal for me), but the part that ruffled my feathers was not the aroma of fried chicken. It was the logo. What is that abomination?!
I was so thrown off by the lack of a traditional CFA script on the store that I sent this picture to several friends who work for the company. One in particular told me that Chick-fil-A supposedly alters the sign design if the shopping center “demands” it or if local sign ordinances prohibit the standard look. I don’t know much about Inverness Corners, but I don’t think they would Prevent Chick-fil-A from using a scripted word mark. Do you?
In any regard, this site made me worried that the beloved chicken brand was about to change its logo for the worse. Rest assured, my friend tells me that we are safe from doom. Whew!
With all of that behind us, I would like to discuss a few of the differences I noticed between Birmingham’s two Transformational stores (#435 and #445). Mind you, I visited both within an hour of each other. Here is what I observed:
The category markers were of a different style in both stores
#445 had vinyl flooring while #435 had bare concrete everywhere except for the grand aisle
#445 did not have a deli island and thus its beer and wine section is flipped (why is this?)
#435 was a transformed Food Pavilion store and thus had a different entryway setup
#445 had people loading up carts full of discounted wine bottles, while #435 was mostly devoid of shoppers
A man in the produce department at #445 said that they were supposed to receive one more truck load of product, but it was canceled last-minute
This post wouldn’t be complete without me chronicling the life and death of my souvenir pumpkin. I’m never one to throw away perfectly good items, so I naturally decided to transform my pumpkin in to none other than a pie (following a month of display as a fall decoration).
I began by slicing the pumpkin in two and baking it in the oven, much like one does with a spaghetti squash. After that, I scooped out the interior and mixed it with the rest of the pie filling ingredients (which included plain cream cheese that I substituted with SE Grocers strawberry cream cheese spread). I then stirred up the topping mixture using GreenWise walnuts and cooked the mixture on the stove top. It appears that I then baked the pie filling for a time, covered it with the topping, and stuck it back in the oven to finish.
This was admittedly my first ever pumpkin pie, and I thought it tasted pretty good. I, however, offered a sample to a friend who said that the strawberry cream cheese gave it a “sweaty sock” taste. After offering a kind “F.U.”, I proceeded to happily eat the rest of the pie myself. His loss.
With over 130 images and many side tangents, this post certainly lives up to the “madness” theme; I hope you enjoyed it anyhow. I, for one, am glad I was able to experience this unique Winn-Dixie store before it was gone, and I’m also glad to share those memories with Retail Retell & The Sing Oil Sidekick.
We now have our third portion of Marketplace Madness 2026 in the books, which means we only have one post left in this year’s series. I would love to hear any and all feedback about what you’ve seen thus far in addition to where you think our final post will take us. I also hope that you have learned as much as I have through this journey.
Until next time,
- Sing Oil Media
This was a nice store and an enjoyable visit! Thanks for all the links and shout-outs, especially for American Fare (that was a lot of fun to write). I agree that "freshly raised" probably makes the least sense. They also could have gone for "freshly frozen," I bet -- after all, aren't many things flash frozen, and that's basically the same thing?! I'm glad I got them, but I definitely didn't need those pictures from here... zero idea when I'll ever get around to uploading them!