{"id":70552,"date":"2026-08-11T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/70552\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:34:10","slug":"beloved-miami-grocery-store-closes-after-66-years-to-become-aldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/70552\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Miami grocery store closes after 66 years to become Aldi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHistoric Miami grocery store Winn-Dixie at Bird Ludlam Shopping Center has closed after 66 years to make way for an Aldi supermarket.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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After six decades in business, the Winn-Dixie anchoring the Bird Ludlam Shopping Center at 6770 Bird Rd. has closed for good. The store closed on August 2 ahead of a conversion to Aldi, a closing first reported by the Miami Herald<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The store had sold groceries on the corner of Bird and Ludlam since 1960, when it opened as a Kwik Chek. This makes the incoming Aldi the third grocery name on the same corner in 66 years. <\/p>\n

For those reading this thinking, \u201cWhat\u2019s the big deal?\u201d Well, neighborhoods depend on their longtime grocery stores, and seeing one go can shake up a community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"aThe Winn-Dixie underwent a remodel and an updated produce department as recently as August 2018.<\/p>\n

Same corner since 1960<\/p>\n

Kwik Chek was an early Winn-Dixie brand, and the store carried the Winn-Dixie name for decades after the switch. It underwent a remodel and an updated produce department as recently as August 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll associates at this location received advance notice, and Winn-Dixie is working closely with Aldi to support a smooth transition,\u201d Meredith Hurley, Winn-Dixie\u2019s senior director of communications and community, told the Herald. \u201cAssociates will have the first opportunity to apply for roles at the new Aldi.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Aldi does not have an opening date yet. These conversions usually take about a year to complete.<\/p>\n

\"theAt least seven other Winn-Dixies in the U.S. are on the \u201cAldi conversion list\u201d<\/p>\n

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How the Aldi deal works<\/p>\n

The closing goes back to March 2024, when Aldi bought Winn-Dixie\u2019s parent company. A group led by Winn-Dixie CEO Anthony Hucker and C&S Wholesale Grocers bought the company back in February 2025<\/a>, but Aldi kept roughly 220 Winn-Dixie and Harveys locations to convert to its own stores by 2027, including 162 in Florida. Last fall, the parent company rebranded<\/a> from Southeastern Grocers to The Winn-Dixie Company, keeping around 130 traditional grocery stores with a Florida focus.<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade has a growing list of these. At least seven Winn-Dixies in the county are on the Aldi conversion list<\/a>, including the California Club store on Ives Dairy Road, which closed in May, and the Sunset West store at Sunset Drive and 87th Avenue, where a conversion that began in 2025 is nearing completion almost a year later.<\/p>\n

In its final days, shoppers picked the shelves clean at 40 percent off. \u201cLots of ice cream, frozen foods and chocolates!!\u201d one customer posted on the neighborhood app Nextdoor. \u201cHave a blessed week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winn-Dixie at Bird Ludlam Shopping Center. 6770 Bird Rd., Miami. Closed August 2, 2026; no opening date yet for the Aldi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historic Miami grocery store Winn-Dixie at Bird Ludlam Shopping Center has closed after 66 years to make way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21128],"tags":[21143,33383,939,30735,52468,7322,21144],"class_list":["post-70552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-aldi","tag-aldi","tag-grocery","tag-history","tag-nostalgia","tag-openings-closings","tag-shopping","tag-sud-nord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}