Four south Louisiana Winn-Dixie stores to rebranded as Aldi locations, see where they are

Winn-Dixie stores in Zachary, Prairieville and Amite have closed or are set to close in the next few months so they can be rebranded as Aldi supermarkets.

The store at 804 W. Oak St. in Amite has closed, the location at 17682 Airline Hwy. in Prairieville will close in September and the Zachary store at 5005 Church St. will shut down in November, Aldi officials said. Over the next several months, the stores will be remodeled. No reopening dates for the locations have been announced.

Employees at the affected stores will have the first opportunity to apply to work at the new Aldi locations and will have the option to transfer to a nearby Winn-Dixie. 

Aldi had previously announced plans to shut down a Metairie Winn-Dixie for a rebranding. 

The chain purchased nearly 400 Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores  from Southeastern Grocers in a deal that closed earlier this year. 

When the deal was first announced, Aldi said it would decide which stores would continue to operate under the Winn-Dixie banner and which would be converted to its own brand, which cuts costs with features like self-bagging, asking customers to put down a 25 cent deposit on shopping carts and limited inventory. 

Aldi said it planned to rebrand about 50 stores this year, with the bulk of locations changing over in 2025.

A “meaningful” number of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarkets will continue to operate under their current banner, Aldi said. One of the factors in rebranding will be the proximity to existing Aldi stores. 

While Aldi currently has 15 stores in Louisiana, it doesn’t have any locations near Prairieville, Amite or Zachary. And the former Winn-Dixie in Metairie is more than 3.5 miles away from an existing Aldi in Metairie.

Aldi said it wants to open 800 stores nationwide by the end of 2028, investing $9 billion on new locations. There are currently more than 2,400 Aldi stores in the U.S. 

The company opened a $100 million regional headquarters in Loxley, Alabama, at the start of 2023. That has fueled Aldi’s rapid expansion across the Gulf Coast. Even before the Winn-Dixie deal was announced, the company said it would build more than 100 supermarkets between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle over the next few years.