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Grocery Changeover Date Announced

    Officials have confirmed that the Winn-Dixie grocery store located on SR 19 between Eustis and Umatilla is being converted to an ALDI.  The move comes as part of the ongoing transition within the organization after Aldi purchased Winn-Dixie in 2024.
    The store will convert to an Aldi in early January.  The transition will include a closure of the location while it transitions to ALDI.  Current employees have received notice of the changeover, and will be given the opportunity to interview to serve in the new store.  Additionally, they will be given the opportunity to apply to serve in stores that will remain Winn-Dixie.
    The location is one of the stores that remained in the sale, which became complicated in the months following the sale of an estimated 400 Winn-Dixie outlets to ALDI.  In the months following the original deal, approximately 170 stores were sold back to an investment group that will continue to operate them as Winn Dixie locations.
    The Eustis location’s conversion to ALDI is part of a plan to convert approximately 220 locations to that layout, which features a smaller store footprint and different product offerings. It is unknown how, or if, the extra square footage from the current store will be used.  In Umatilla, when Save-A-Lot took over for the former Miller’s location, extra space not used by the new occupant was simply boarded off and has remained unused since.