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August 9, 2006

Another one bites the dust

Southern Family Markets announced today that it's closing stores in North Carolina, including the ones on North Main Street and West Wendover Avenue in High Point. (The Wendover Avenue one has a Jamestown zip code but is in High Point city limits, before someone busts my chops on the discrepancy).

It looks like they've been closing stores all over the place lately.

The local stores will close Aug. 26.

They haven't been in the local market long. Southern Family bought some of the old Bi-Lo stores last fall.

It's always sad to see a major retailer pull out of a market, but Southern Family never won me over. I live about the same distance from the North Main Street Southern Family and the Eastchester Drive Harris Teeter. The latter got most of my business although I'd occassionally stop in the Southern Family.

In the last year and a half we've lost Bi-Lo, Winn Dixie and now Southern Family Markets from the local market.

Posted by Jonathan Jones at August 9, 2006 1:10 PM