GTB Area Retail Blog

Jo-Ann Fabrics was founded as the Cleveland Fabric Shop in 1943. Twenty years later, new stores opened under the Jo-Ann name in 1963 after further expansion outside the single Ohio store. In 1959, Jo-Ann was incorporated as Fabri-Centers of America. In September 1998, the company changed its name to Jo-Ann Stores. After being publicly traded for 12 years, Jo-Ann was sold to private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners on March 23, 2010 and was delisted from the American Stock Exchange (now NYSE American) a year later. In 2021, Jo-Ann filed an initial public offering on the NASDAQ and traded under the stock ticker symbol JOAN. This was the second time in history that Jo-Ann was a public company. However, Leonard Green & Partners retained a majority stake in Jo-Ann Stores. On March 18, 2024, Jo-Ann Stores first filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. As a result, stock trading was stopped on March 28 with the delisting on April 9. Jo-Ann was reorganized as a private company o...

This post was originally published to the GTB Retail Seconday Blog on July 6, 2020 and has been republished/rewritten on this blog now with info provided by the Albertsons Florida Blog . Kash n' Karry #848 & #1761/Sweetbay #1761/Winn-Dixie #2444/Future Aldi 1023 N. Tamiami Trail, Ruskin, FL Originally opened on April 6, 1974 as Kash n' Karry store 848 (later 1761), being the first major supermarket in the Ruskin area (and was their 36th location at the time). There was also a Food Lion located 1 mile to the north that existed from 1993 to 2001 in the same plaza as former Kmart #7517 (1982–2003). At 36,426 square feet (not 23,800 square feet on the AFB post), this KNK had several full-service departments ranging from bakery, deli, and meats along with an additional Kare Drugs pharmacy! On May 20, 2006, this store along with 3 others (Fishhawk Blvd, Gunn Hwy, and US 301) became Sweetbay Supermarket as part of Kash n' Karry's rebranding and also received its first inte...

It has been 6 years and 1 month since I first started this blog, and here is a quick update on what was Winn-Dixie #678 in Riverview. After being vacant for 7 years, the left half of the store became a Bravo supermarket that opened on August 1, 2024, being the second Bravo in Hillsborough County after the 2020 opening of the Providence Road location (near the Brandon Exchange shopping mall). These photos were taken in February, during the conversion process. Bravo kept the exterior look from Winn-Dixie, although repainted in a black and red color scheme. This was originally built as a "pre-Marketplace"-style Winn-Dixie in 1984 and remodeled into the Marketplace format in 1995. The pharmacy closed in early 2016, with the actual store closing a year later. Bravo even kept Winn-Dixie's "Entrance" sign as well! The primary road sign on US 301. And the secondary road sign on Boyette Road.