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By Marienne Thomas-Ogle — The Birmingham N… December 29, 2009, 4:13PM Helena police believe Adrian “T.J.” Glenn Jr. is responsible for 16 robberies at Winn-Dixie stores. (Special) A month-long investigation by Helena Police has resulted in the arrest of a Pinson man believed to be involved in 16 Winn-Dixie robberies during the past year. Adrian “T.J.” Glenn Jr., 20, is in the Shelby County Jail after turning himself in to U.S... Read Full Story

(Reuters) - Winn-Dixie Stores Inc <WINN.O> posted a wider quarterly loss and gave a weak 2010 outlook as recession-hit consumers shopped for lesser number of items on every visit to its stores, sending the supermarket chain's shares down 13 percent. Same store sales -- a key measure of retail health -- decreased 1.5 percentage for the first quarter compared with the year-ago period. The company also said sales were hurt as consumers shifted toward generic pharmaceuticals and an absence of... Read Full Story

Shares of Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. continued to drop on Tuesday, a day after the grocery-store operator posted a wider loss in its first quarter and gave a weak forecast for fiscal 2010. BMO Capital Markets analyst Karen Short in a note to investors called Winn-Dixie sales a"wild card." She said there is a chance that Winn-Dixie might not meet its lower outlook, suggesting sales at stores open more than a year between a range of a 1 percent decline and a 1 percent rise. Short said she doesn't... Read Full Story

Grocery-store operator Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. said Monday that its fiscal first-quarter loss widened as revenue declined due to storm-related sales and several store closures. The company's shares sank 10 percent in after-hours trading. For the quarter that ended Sept. 16, Winn-Dixie reported a loss of $8.1 million, or 15 cents per share. This included an impairment charge of 6 cents per share related to the closures of six stores, and compares with a loss of $2.3 million, or 4 cents per... Read Full Story

(Reuters) - Supermarket chain Winn-Dixie Stores Inc <WINN.O> posted a wider quarterly loss, hurt by consumers shifting toward generic pharmaceuticals and the absence of storm-related sales, and cut its 2010 EBITDA outlook, sending its shares down 13 percent after the bell. The company cut its full-year 2010 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) outlook to between $140 million and $160 million. For the latest first quarter, the company posted a loss of $8.1... Read Full Story

By Jeremy Gray — The Birmingham News November 28, 2009, 6:12PM A man with a handgun robbed the Winn-Dixie at 3925 Crosshaven Drive in the Cahaba Heights community of Vestavia Hills shortly after 10:30 p.m. Friday. The gunman led three employees and a customer into the store’s office, where he made a store manager open the safe . The robber took more than $4,800. Birmingham police also had several recent crimes involving guns... Read Full Story

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., one of the nation’s largest food retailers, has consolidated its IT infrastructure to a System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC) mainframe to drive more efficiency from current business-critical processes and data such as store operations, finance, human resources and Web content. As a longtime mainframe user, Winn-Dixie evaluated the benefits of consolidating its mainframe operations versus other potential solutions and found the... Read Full Story

For those of you who shop at Winn-Dixie, you may have heard of their new Fuel Perks program. The program is through the Winn-Dixie Customer Rewards card. You have to go to the service desk and get a new card with a magnetic strip on the back. It only took me about 1 minute to do this. You have to give your new card to the cashier when you are checking out. *If you use your phone number, you will not get your fuel perks!* You accumulate $.05 for every $50.00 spent. If you don't spend $50 in... Read Full Story

The 2010-2011 Bert L. Thomas Scholarship is named after a World War II vet who served in the Quartermaster Corps as Executive Officer under future Winn-Dixie founder, James E Davis. After the war he was hired by JE Davis and eventually became President of Winn-Dixie Stores in 1965. At the time of his [...] Read Full Story

Jim Stevens of Jonesborough, Tennessee wakes up and sees Jesus nearly every morning lately.  Somehow, the morning dew forms into the image of the Lord.  From the looks of this photo from the Johnson City Press , it's a good likeness. It kind of reminds you of the Sunday School class that was studying images of Jesus.  As they were studying one popular painting, the teacher said, "Boys and girls, nobody really knows for sure what Jesus looked like."  One little girl said, "Well you have to... Read Full Story