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— Griffin Daily News Monday, March 21,1977
Winn-Dixie
new store
opens Tuesday
Winn-Dixie will open its new
store in Griffin Tuesday
morning at 8:30. The store is at
Market Square on the Newnan
Highway between the North
Expressway and the Griffin By-
Pass.
Employes and visiting Winn-
Dixie officials who will be here
for the opening will have a
dedication service at 8 a.m.
The Rev. Lewis James,
pastor of the First Congrega
tional Holiness Church, will
give the invocation.
The store will open for
business at 8:30 a.m.
Fred Smith is the Griffin store
manager.
The store on West Taylor
street was not open for business
today. Winn-Dixie no longer will
operate from that location.
Dwayne Carpenter, district
manager for Winn-Dixie, will be
among the visiting officials on
hand for the grand opening. J.
T. Norris, retail store manager
for this area, has been
coordinating the transition.
He’ll be one of the Winn-Dixie
officials here for the opening.
D. Williams, regional
manager, and Lee Haygood,
retail operations supervisor,
What’s
happening
Camera Club
The Griffin Camera Club will meet
tonight at the Griffin Regional Library.
Bill Bussey, Griffin Academy’s 1977
Star Student will present an original
nature study program of prints and
slides entitled, “Flowers, Critters and
other Colors of Spring”. Dr. Leßoy
Harris will preside.
Those interested in photography are
invited to attend.
Optimist Club
The Optimist Club will hold its
regular breakfast meeting Tuesday at 7
a.m. at Holiday Inn. Representative
John Mostiler will be guest speaker.
Exchange Club
The Exchange Club of Griffin will
meet Tuesday at Rogers II at noon for
its regular weekly program.
Pike ARC
The Pike County Association for
Retarded Children will meet Tuesday
at 7:30 p.m. at the County Extension
office. Gary Lester of the state
department will speak on the
possibilities of organizing a training
center.
fitness center
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Across From Northgate Shopping Center
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With purchase of yearly membership by May 1.
“DO IT FOR THE HEALTH OF IT”
will be here, too.
The Griffin store is the 64th
serviced by the Atlanta
Division.
This year marks 52 years that
the founders of Winn Dixie
stores have served their
customers in the Southeast for
their food needs. The Winn
Dixie saga began with W. M.
Davis, his wife, a daughter, four
sons, a big dream and a small
grocery store in Lemon City,
Fla.
The senior Davis lost his life
savings in the 1921 recession
while operating a small cash
and carry general merchandise
store in rural Idaho. He
borrowed money to make a
fresh start and purchased a
small grocery store in Lemon
City in 1925. It was in his new
store that he developed the
formula for success that has not
changed in 52 years:
—sell only quality foods as
cheaply as possible.
—depend on volume sales for
profit.
—sell only for cash.
The whole Davis family
pitched in to make their new
Florida store a success. Mrs.
Davis baked pies to sell to
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Charles Sandford (1), market manager, and Fred Smith, store manager, get set for the
grand opening ot the new Winn-Dixie store at Market Square on the Newnan highway.
customers. Younger brothers
Tine and Austin carried and
delivered groceries and elder
brothers,J. E. and A. D. left
college and Sigma fraternity
life to return home to help their
father.
By 1926, the Davis family was
able to open another store in
Hialeah, Florida. They began to
innovate. W. M. Davis
introduced the Idaho potato to
south Florida households.
The Davis stores sold steak at
19 cents a pound while other
stores were selling it at a much
higher price. Other grocery
stores were lucky, even in
prosperous 1926, to sell a
thousand dollars a week. The
Davis’ Hialeah store racked up
$7,600 in it’s first week.
By the 1930’5, even with the
depression, the Davis stores
had increased to 34. Needing a
common identification of his
group of stores, the elder Davis
had by this time adopted the
name of "Table Supply Stores”
for all his outlets.
With the growth of his grocery
business, W. M. Davis
introduced two additional
operating policies still in effect
today:
—offer profit sharing with
employees.
—promote men and women
within the company, to higher
jobs whenever possible.
In 1934, the elder Davis died
and his four sons assumed the
active management of the
business. A. D. became
president and J. E., M. A. and
T. W. became vice-presidents.
It was in 1939 that the four
brothers, following the
progressive principles set out
by their father, purchased
control of the 78 stores of the
Winn & Lovett Grocery
Company in Florida and
Georgia and subsequently,
moved their headquarters to
Jacksonville, Florida, the
overall chain being operated
under the name of Winn &
Stork Club
MASTER ANTHONY
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Anthony of
Route 2, Searcy avenue, Griffin,
announce the birth of a son on
March 20 at the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital.
MASTER HELMS
Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Helms
of Route 1, Zebulon, announce
the birth of a son on March 21 at
the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
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Lovett as the parent company.
After World War H, the
Steiden Stores in Kentucky, the
Margaret Ann stores in Florida,
the Wylie Company Stores in
Alabama, the Penney Stores in
Mississippi, the King Stores in
Georgia, the Eden and
Ballentine Stores in South
Carolina, all joined the
company. In 1955, the company
became Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.
upon consolidation with the
Dixie Home stores in the
Carolinas. Thereafter, the
Ketner-Milner Stores in North
and South Carolina, and the Hill
Stores in Louisiana and
Alabama were acquired and
became part of Winn-Dixie.
Friedman’s Announces:
NO IMMEDIATE INCREASE IN DIAMOND
P^ ce ?\ PRICES. According to A.A. Friedman, firm
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In 1967, 11 stores were
acquired in Nassau, Marsh
Harbor and Freeport in the
Bahama Islands. The most
recent acquisition was Kimbell,
Inc. of Ft. Worth, Texas.
Kimbell operated 133 super
markets in Texas, New Mexico
and Oklahoma, principally
under the names of Buddies and
Foodway.
Winn-Dixie now operates over
1140 modem food centers in
Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Indiana, Virginia,
Texas, New Mexico and
Oklahoma and has modem
warehousing and distribution
centers in Jacksonville, Miami,
Pompano, Orlando and Tampa,
Florida; Greenville, South
Carolina; Charlotte and
Raleigh, North Carolina;'
Montgomery, Alabama; New
Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta,
Georgia; Louisville, Kentucky;
Ft. Worth and Lubbock, Texas
and Albuquerque, New Meixco.
A modern food testing
laboratory is located in
Jacksonville and is maintained
by top food testing technicians
to insure that the quality of the
products of Winn Dixie
manufacturing plants are
maintained at top level and also
the products of many suppliers.
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Hospital Report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital
during the weekend:
Susie Kilgore, Jon Ashley
Hendrix, William Gordy, Faye
O’Neal, Susie England, Phyllis
Brown, Kenneth Gene Brown,
Dorothy Frost, Mollie Pritchett,
Joseph Billings, Mary
Moreland, Ruth Pierce.
Mrs. Linda Faye Wheeler and
baby, Helen Foreman, Ruth
Jeanette Price, Thomas J. Hill,
Lois Eller, Marcus Gilbert,
Timothy James Gaston, Ray
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Strickland, Betty Jean Morris,
Shirley Fluellyn, Betty Driver.
Marise O’Neal, Hamlin
Gunnels, Claude Walker, Jason
Taylor, Sheriah Martin, Misty
Smith, Sheila Allen, Ruby
Carter, Joseph Ford, Frances
Carter, Kathie Drummond.
Myrtis Bobbie Daniel,
William McDowell, Melissa
Banks, Annie Gibson, Gene
Toland, Olin E. Cox, Jr., Mattie
McLean, R. W. Owens, Dennis
Sullivan.