Harveys Supermarket at Southgate is slated to close, and perhaps change hands.
Southeastern Grocers (SEG), the Jacksonville, Fla.-based retail portfolio that owns Harveys and Winn-Dixie announced a sweep of changes last week, not least of which that beginning in “early 2026,” the company will rebrand as The Winn-Dixie Co.
The chain-wide revamp that SEG CEO Anthony Hucker called “a new 100-year-old company” entails “dozens” of store remodels and new constructions, as well as an expansion of its liquor store portfolio.
As the renewal will focus on SEG’s stores in Florida and south Georgia, this also means the company is transferring ownership of most of its stores outside Florida, including some 32 Winn-Dixie and eight Harveys grocers in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia.
Several of these, like the Harveys in Swainsboro, the closest to Augusta, are slated to become Piggly Wiggly stores, according to SEG’s website. That goes for two other Georgia Harveys stores. The same may be the case for the Harveys in Augusta, but according to the list on SEG’s website showing which Southeastern stores are to be transferred to new operators, the identity of the Southgate supermarket’s new operator is currently “pending.”
SEG, which was once Bi-Lo Holdings, sold two of its Bi-Lo supermarkets, one in Pooler, Ga. and another in Lexington, S.C., to independent Piggly Wiggly grocers in 2020.
Also formerly a Bi-Lo store, Harveys opened its 1631 Gordon Hwy. location in 2016.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter covering general reporting for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com
