was a 24 hour store turned into Foodmax in 1998 and back into Piggly Wiggly in 2005. ROCKY CREEK PLAZA, Piggly Wiggly moved from across street in new shopping center in 1980. Rocky Creek road and Pio Nono Avenue (1950's) closed and moved across street around 1980 in new Rocky Creek Plaza shopping center. Built in the early 1980's and closed as a Piggly Wiggly in 1998. Still open now as Piggly WigglyĮisenhower Parkway and Log Cabin Drive: this is 2 miles west of the previous store mentioned above. This store was re-opened as a Save-A-Lot in 2001 and is the only grocery store in this low income neighborhood.Įisenhower Parkway and Pio Nono Avenue: This store took over a vacant former Table Supply (Winn Dixie) store on the SE corner as a FoodMax. The store was opened in the mid 1940's (and looked every bit of it.this was not a pretty store). Napier Avenue NAPIER SQUARE: Was said to be the oldest Piggly Wiggly in Macon when it closed in 1999. Gray Hwy (1980's) shared shopping center with Wal-mart, store closed as FoodMax within weeks of a new Wal-Mart supercenter being built across the street in 2000Ĭolumbus Road (1980's) was built as FoodMax, now has Piggly Wiggly name That store closed in 1999 and is now a Fred's discount store.Ĥ000 block of Forsyth Road RIVOLI CROSSING SHOPPING CENTER (1980's)-Closed in 1991, is now a Stein Mart clothing storeĮmery Hwy (1950's-1980's) Closed, now Family Dollar Piggly Wiggly moved into new "upscale" store across street as FoodMax. Northside Drive and Forest Hill road (1970's-1980's)-Now Warner Robins Building supply and lumber. Eckerd's and Blockbuster were add ons built in 1990 Riverside Drive and Pierce Avenue (1950's-1980's)-Now Aunt Zelda's Furnature. Riverside Drive and Ingleside Avenue, next to K-Mart (Late 1960's)- Demolished, now Hutchings High School NOTE: There has always been Piggly Wiggly franchises in rural towns in Central and South Georgia not affected by the changes in Macon/Warner Robins The name Piggly Wiggly returned to the Macon area when Brunos (owned by Ahold?) sold all of the Foodmax stores to a "new" company called Southern Family Foods which turned all of the Foodmax stores into Piggly Wiggly franchises in the fall of 2005. the name disappeared in 1998 when owner Bruno's combined them with existing FoodMax stores, changed the names of the Piggly Wiggly's to FoodMax and closed some underperforming stores. Piggly Wiggly: Ownership by Piggly Wiggly Southern and later Bruno's. I should count that there are two Ingles stores just outside and North of Macon and two Harvey's stores south of Macon. and Southern Family Markets operating under the names "Southern Family Market" and "Piggly Wiggly". Newer chains include Publix, Save-a-lot and 7 (count them.SEVEN) Wal-Mart Supercenters. Long time independent (neighborhood) groceries include Bateman & Wade, Rocky Creek Foods, C&J and Macon Food Fair. Over the past 50 years, the primary chains to operate in the Macon/Warner Robins area were: Piggly Wiggly, Winn-Dixie, Kroger, Food Lion, A&P, Colonial/Big Star, FoodMax and Red Apple. Macon Georgia Grocery history as I know so far.
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