100-year-old grocery chain's stores acquired by rival after closures

With inflation continuing to rise the outgo of mundane essentials and national argumentation changes tightening eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), millions of families are uncovering it progressively hard to conscionable their basal needs.

At the aforesaid time, a increasing fig of market stores are closing nationwide, peculiarly successful economically susceptible communities, making it adjacent harder for radical to entree affordable nutrient and household goods. Yet amid this uncertainty, immoderate determination market chains are pushing against the trend, offering a glimmer of anticipation done investments and expansion.

Founded successful 1960 arsenic a azygous store successful Houma, Louisiana, 1 concern has grown into 1 of the nation's largest autarkic and fastest-growing family-owned market companies successful the U.S. Now operating 66 stores crossed Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, it marks 65 years of serving communities successful the Gulf Coast.

According to a nationalist connection from the company's third-generation owner, Rouses Market has acquired 10 Winn-Dixie locations from Southeastern Grocers. The acquisition includes 9 stores successful Louisiana and 1 successful Mississippi, with each transitions expected to beryllium completed by aboriginal 2026.

With these additions, Rouses Market volition grow its footprint by 15%, bringing its full fig of locations to 76 crossed the region.

• 9701 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans

• 4627 Westbank Expressway, Marrero

• 12519 Airline Highway, Destrehan

• 2104 Williams Blvd., Kenner

• 70431 Highway 21, Covington

• 4100 Highway 59, Mandeville

• 731 Washington St., Franklinton

• 1803 LA Highway 3125, Gramercy

• 10974 Joor Rd., Baton Rouge

• 4400 Hardy St., Hattiesburg

Rouses Market's acquisition follows a large restructuring wrong Southeastern Grocers.

In 2025, CEO Anthony Hucker and a radical of investors repurchased the institution from Aldi. Shortly after, Southeastern Grocers announced it would rebrand arsenic The Winn-Dixie Company, opening successful aboriginal 2026, shifting its operations to absorption connected Florida and prime markets successful Georgia, wherever it plans to put heavy successful modernization and semipermanent growth.

As portion of this strategy, the institution volition merchantability 32 Winn-Dixie stores and 8 Harveys Supermarket locations crossed Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. These closures and ownership transitions are expected to wrapper up by aboriginal 2026.

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Despite respective shutdowns, caller openings are besides successful progress. Southeastern Grocers precocious acquired Hitchcock's Markets successful Alachua, Keystone Heights, and Williston, each of which volition beryllium converted to Winn-Dixie locations successful phases starting successful precocious 2025.