A new look for Winn-Dixie

[Lunican]

07/10/2008
A promise kept to community
by Joe Wilhelm Jr.

Staff Writer

The Market Street Winn-Dixie has completed the transformation from eye sore to eye candy.

Winn-Dixie President and CEO Peter Lynch made a promise about a year ago to create a great store for Downtown customers and he feels that his company has lived up to that obligation.

“I’m very pleased with how this turned out,” said Lynch. “We made a commitment and kept our promise. I really think this will help revitalize this side of the city.”

Full Article:
http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=50402

[urbanlibertarian]

How much time do they have to build their customer base before they have to compete with a fresh market at the Library and one at the Landing?

[civil42806]

"How much time do they have to build their customer base before they have to compete with a fresh market at the Library and one at the Landing?"

I'd say couple of decades at the least

[Driven1]

The service has been really great.  They finally installed checkout counters that were designed this century----which amazingly helps a lot.

Last year there were about five (out of 10 total) cashiers who needed to be taken out and vigorously and enthusiastically flogged in hemming park for about 35 minutes a day as a result of their lifechanging rudeness and incompetence.

All of those goblins are gone.   They have pretty much an all new staff, and these people amazingly dont use the word 'fuck' even once during the checkout. 

well that is certainly an improvement!

[deathstar]

Publix > Winn Dixie

[tufsu1]

Publix > Winn Dixie

agreed...but so are the prices!

[copperfiend]

Publix quality and customer service is better so you expect to pay a little more. I don't think they are that much higher than Winn Dixie.

[jtwestside]

Publix quality and customer service is better so you expect to pay a little more. I don't think they are that much higher than Winn Dixie.

Not to turn a good thread for WD into a bashing thread, but I've always thought this is where their problem lies. Their customer service is no better than Wal-Mart yet their prices (on the whole) are higher, and their quality isn't anywhere near Publix’s where I can get a friendly associate to check me out. They get passed over by those looking for a bargin and those looking for quality service.

[Keith-N-Jax]

I went there last night since I was downtown, didnt really see a difference. I just prefer Publix.

[Ocklawaha]

Then why in the heck are you in Dixie?

"If your heart is not in Dixie then get your ass out"

I LOVE the name DIXIE on the store. Today it takes a company with brass ones to stand up and shout their Southern Pride.

Frankly Yankees are deluded - Revision history tells them their great leader "Honest Abe" was all about moral and racial equality and he fought to free the Slaves.

Slaves you remember we held in the South not for labor, but for fun. All Southrons hated all black (and other) races and just wanted to torture them. It was NEVER about economics, taxes, States rights, or idenity. The FACT that the South (mostly GEORGIA) placed more the 60 bills before the US House to end slavery with a compensated European system is never taught to these kids. Thus "it didn't happen".

Anyone trying to tear down the South with your Yankee textbook in hand would do well to read:

"THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT" by Kennedy and Kennedy
"Lincolns Little War" by Webb Garrison
"The Real Lincoln" by Thomas DiLorenzo
"Black Southerners in Gray" by Battaile - Bergeron - Cartwright - Jordon - Rollings and Young
"The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" US Goverment Printing Office
or just for fun:
"Southern by the Grace of God" by the Late Great, Lewis Grizzard

Read these books and you'll understand why I say WITHOUT SHAME, had I been alive in those days, Lincoln wouldn't have made it to 1865!

Now back to the grocery store, Lead On WINN-DIXIE!

OCKLAWAHA
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
DEO VINDICE Y'ALL!

[uptowngirl]

Then why in the heck are you in Dixie?

"If your heart is not in Dixie then get your ass out"

I LOVE the name DIXIE on the store. Today it takes a company with brass ones to stand up and shout their Southern Pride.

Frankly Yankees are deluded - Revision history tells them their great leader "Honest Abe" was all about moral and racial equality and he fought to free the Slaves.

Slaves you remember we held in the South not for labor, but for fun. All Southrons hated all black (and other) races and just wanted to torture them. It was NEVER about economics, taxes, States rights, or idenity. The FACT that the South (mostly GEORGIA) placed more the 60 bills before the US House to end slavery with a compensated European system is never taught to these kids. Thus "it didn't happen".

Anyone trying to tear down the South with your Yankee textbook in hand would do well to read:

"THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT" by Kennedy and Kennedy
"Lincolns Little War" by Webb Garrison
"The Real Lincoln" by Thomas DiLorenzo
"Black Southerners in Gray" by Battaile - Bergeron - Cartwright - Jordon - Rollings and Young
"The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" US Goverment Printing Office
or just for fun:
"Southern by the Grace of God" by the Late Great, Lewis Grizzard

Read these books and you'll understand why I say WITHOUT SHAME, had I been alive in those days, Lincoln wouldn't have made it to 1865!

Now back to the grocery store, Lead On WINN-DIXIE!

OCKLAWAHA
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
DEO VINDICE Y'ALL!

OCK, you should lead the new movement!

[vicupstate]

Then why in the heck are you in Dixie?

"If your heart is not in Dixie then get your ass out"

I LOVE the name DIXIE on the store. Today it takes a company with brass ones to stand up and shout their Southern Pride.

Frankly Yankees are deluded - Revision history tells them their great leader "Honest Abe" was all about moral and racial equality and he fought to free the Slaves.

Slaves you remember we held in the South not for labor, but for fun. All Southrons hated all black (and other) races and just wanted to torture them. It was NEVER about economics, taxes, States rights, or idenity. The FACT that the South (mostly GEORGIA) placed more the 60 bills before the US House to end slavery with a compensated European system is never taught to these kids. Thus "it didn't happen".

Anyone trying to tear down the South with your Yankee textbook in hand would do well to read:

"THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT" by Kennedy and Kennedy
"Lincolns Little War" by Webb Garrison
"The Real Lincoln" by Thomas DiLorenzo
"Black Southerners in Gray" by Battaile - Bergeron - Cartwright - Jordon - Rollings and Young
"The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" US Goverment Printing Office
or just for fun:
"Southern by the Grace of God" by the Late Great, Lewis Grizzard

Read these books and you'll understand why I say WITHOUT SHAME, had I been alive in those days, Lincoln wouldn't have made it to 1865!

Now back to the grocery store, Lead On WINN-DIXIE!

OCKLAWAHA
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
DEO VINDICE Y'ALL!

Anyone that doen't think the Civil War was about protecting an economy dependent on slavery, is delusional from reading confederate revisionist history.

[BridgeTroll]

Here is a review of one of the above listed books...

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.736/article_detail.asp

[RiversideGator]

Nice hatchet job.  Of course slavery was wrong and was an issue, but to pretend that the South was all bad and the North all good is really to take a juvenile position.  In any event, this thread is getting WAY off topic.  The Civil War has nothing to do with Winn-Dixie.

[BridgeTroll]

I agree 100%