Downtown Winn Dixie Renderings

[Seraphs]

Is it just my imagination or does this new store look smaller?  Maybe Winn Dixie will finally get it and have a clean customer friendly store, with good customer service. 

[tufsu1]

Is it just my imagination or does this new store look smaller?  Maybe Winn Dixie will finally get it and have a clean customer friendly store, with good customer service. 

its just your imagination!

[thelakelander]

Renovations of Downtown Winn-Dixie to cost $3M

Jacksonville Business Journal - 3:00 PM EDT Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. plans to spend $3 million to upgrade its Downtown Jacksonville store.

The store, which was built in 1981, is one of 75 the company plans to renovate by June 2008.

The project will include a renovation of the store's exterior and the addition of 4,000 square feet of space.

The location is the only grocery store Downtown, and CEO Peter Lynch presented a $25,000 check to the I.M Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless as part of the announcement of the renovation plans Wednesday.

http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2007/08/13/daily24.html?jst=b_ln_hl

[thelakelander]

Winn Dixie hosts pre-renovation celebration

by Max Marbut

Staff Writer

Winn Dixie planted its corporate flag Downtown at the corner of Union and Market streets in 1981 and Wednesday morning, another symbolic planting took place at the grocery store. A cabbage palm, Florida’s state tree, went into the ground to celebrate the beginning of the $3 million remodeling of the 26-year-old supermarket.

Within the next two weeks Winn Dixie will begin to renovate the store inside and outside and improve the parking lot and landscaping on the property. Plans include expanding the store by 4,000 square feet in order to upgrade the fresh produce, floral, seafood and deli departments. The store will get new shelving, refrigeration and frozen food cases as well as flooring, lighting and decor improvements. Brighter lights will be installed in the parking lot and Wednesday’s planting was the first of many palm trees that will be part of the new exterior look.

“This store will have all the bells and whistles when it’s complete. Our shoppers are already experiencing improvements in customer service and product selection. Now they will see a new, updated store with even better product and service offerings,” said Winn Dixie President, CEO and Chairman of the Board Peter Lynch.

He said the Downtown project is just one of dozens of store renovations already completed, underway or planned.

“It’s one piece of our $200 million a year program to renew and upgrade our stores. It’s also a symbol of us turning the company around.”

full article: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=48222

[midnightblackrx]

I hope that with these renovations Winn-Dixie improves its customer service and reduces wait times in line. 

...and they get rid of that fried chicken stench.