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...Earlier this month it announced it would buy the Winn-Dixie and Harveys supermarket chains, expanding in a market where big stores still reign supreme....
...Winn-Dixie, based in Jacksonville, Florida, has 480 stores and about 46,000 staff in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi....
...About one-third of Reed’s sales are made through mainstream US supermarkets such as Kroger, Safeway and Winn-Dixie, as well as discounters such as Costco, but he would like almost all of them to be....
...Winn-Dixie, the regional chain that was previously Publix’s main competitor, has fared less well....
...The pressure from Wal-Mart contributed to the bankruptcy this year of Winn-Dixie, a regional supermarket trading in the south and east....
...Winn Dixie, a smaller regional supermarket chain, cited pressure from Wal-Mart’s supercenters as one of the factors that led it to seek bankruptcy protection in February....
...Winn-Dixie Stores defaulted on $300m of debt. The only non-US based defaulter was Concordia Bus of Sweden, which missed an interest payment on $207m of bonds....
...The intense competition in the grocery sector was underlines last month when Winn-Dixie, a regional supermarket chain that operates in the south and south east, filed for bankruptcy....
...Winn-Dixie, a grocer, announced a quarterly loss but shares rose 0.3 per cent to $6.41 as investors took heart from the fact that it was narrower than expected....
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