Sweetbay Supermarket is an American chain of supermarkets located entirely in Florida. The first Sweetbay supermarket opened in Seminole, Florida, in November 2004. The company is headquartered near Tampa, in the Hillsborough County, Florida area of ​​Tampa Bay Area, and is part of the Belhaize Group of Belgium. In May 2013 it was purchased by BI-LO. On October 8, 2013, BI-LO announces it has stopped Sweetbay's name and all remaining locations will be re-branded as Winn-Dixie.
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Salvatore Greco, an Italian immigrant, sold fruit and vegetables on the streets of Tampa beginning in 1914. In 1922, he and his wife Giuseppina opened a shop in their home. The Greco family built a decent shop in 1947 under the name Big Barn in Plant City, Florida. The business is growing and they have opened nine stores in 1960 under the name Tampa Wholesale. In 1962, the name changed again into Kashn 'Karry, based on a cash program and brought the World War II. People will bring "money" and "carry" their own groceries. They leave unimportant parts of supermarkets such as contests, customer service representatives, and samples.
Kash n 'Karry was acquired by Lucky Stores of California in 1979. After American Stores acquired Lucky in 1988, he sold Kashn' Karry to leveraged buyout companies Gibbons, Green, and van Amerongen. When the purchase was complete, Kashn 'Karry bought 24 Florida Choice supermarkets from Kroger, which closed the chain. On the dissolution of Gibbons, Green; Leonard Green & amp; Partners become controlling shareholder. Kash n 'Karry filed for bankruptcy in 1994.
Kashn 'Karry held an IPO in 1995. In December 1996, Kashn' Karry became a wholly owned subsidiary of Food Lion, Delhaize Group's American division. In July 2000, after the acquisition of Food Lion of Hannaford, parent company Delhaize America, Inc., was created. As a result, Kash n 'Karry became a wholly owned subsidiary of Delhaize America.
In 2002, Kashn 'Karry withdrew from the competitive Orlando market with only two stores left in Clermont, Florida; 41 km west of Orlando. Both stores - which were later re-branded as Sweetbay closed in February 2013. Two of the three stores were closed in Gainesville, Florida.
On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, news reports said that the last Karry Kashn store in Crystal River, Florida, closed, marking the end of Kash n 'Karry brand and full conversion to Sweetbay Supermarket.
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Sweetbay History
In January 2004, after years of slumping sales growth, Kashn 'Karry announced the creation and launch of a new supermarket concept called Sweetbay Supermarket in its core market on the West Coast of Florida. In September 2007, all Kashn 'Karry stores were redesigned as Sweetbay Supermarket. The first of the newly opened Sweetbay Supermarket in Seminole, Florida, on November 6, 2004, and in Fort Myers in December 2004.
In 2008, Sweetbay became an official supermarket for the Tampa Bay Rays baseball club.
In January 2013, Sweetbay announced that 33 stores would close, leaving the chain with 72 stores. The closure was attributed to competition from the Publix shopping chain and Walmart's national network.
In May 2013, Sweetbay and its brother's supermarket chain, Harveys and Reid were sold to BI-LO LLC for $ 265 million. Also included in the deal were lease to 10 Sweetbay locations that closed in January 2013.
On October 8, 2013, BI-LO announced it would stop the Sweetbay brand, and renamed all Sweetbay locations to Winn-Dixie.
Relationship with Hannaford
In 2002, management and supply chains in Kashn 'Karry were transferred to the Hannaford sister chain in the hope of improving Kash n' Karry's performance, which ultimately led to the creation of Sweetbay. When Sweetbay was created, it was a model after Hannaford, incorporating store design, logo/branding elements, and pricing strategies from his sister company in the northeast. In addition, Sweetbay keeps Hannaford branded products as its generic brand name until 2011, when all Delhaize America stores start offering brand Aksen Sehat (for health & beauty products), Home 360 ​​brand (for household products) and brand Essential me (for food products).
On March 17, 2008, Hannaford Supermarket announced data intrusion that resulted in customer credit theft and debit card numbers. No personal information, such as name or address, is accessed. Intrusion affects Hannaford stores, Sweetbay stores in Florida and several independently owned retail locations in Northeast that carry Hannaford products. They say they are aware of about 1,800 fraud cases associated with data intrusion and about 4.2 million unique account numbers exposed.
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