Southeastern Grocers President and CEO Anthony Hucker
Southeastern Grocers President and CEO Anthony Hucker has been around the retail block a few times during his career. Nine years with Aldi in international leadership roles turned into seven years with Walmart in strategy and global format development roles. From there he went on to serve two-year stints as president of Ahold Delhaize USA’s Giant Food banner and then president and COO of Schnuck Markets.
Hucker has been there and done that during a more than 30-year retail career. However the thing that he grows most animated about when discussing his current situation at Southeastern Grocers and the company’s ongoing financial transformation, is the company’s cultural transformation. Sitting in the employee breakroom of a newly remodeled store in the Mandarin neighborhood of Southeastern Grocers’ hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, Hucker becomes particularly enthused when describing one of the biggest changes at
When Mincy Pollock made a pitch to other African-American business owners about joining him as a JAX Chamber member, the response typically was a dismissive why bother shrug.
As much as Pollock sees the chamber as a valuable way for growing his two small businesses Florida Care Insurance and Pollock Group he could understand the skepticism. When I go to the (chamber) meetings, a lot of times, as my grandma would say, I m a fly in a glass of milk, he said. I would go and I would talk to other business owners about Hey, you really should be connected with the chamber, and they have said in the past, It doesn t look like we fit. I don t know if they want us.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. When Mincy Pollock made a pitch to other African-American business owners about joining him as a JAX Chamber member, the response typically was a dismissive why bother shrug.
As much as Pollock sees the chamber as a valuable way for growing his two small businesses Florida Care Insurance and Pollock Group he could understand the skepticism.
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Southeastern Grocers, Inc. (SEG), parent company and home of BI-LO, Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, concludes 2020 with the completion of 41 new and renewed grocery stores that provide local residents throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi with an enhanced shopping experience. Over the course of the year, the grocer has renewed 32 stores throughout its footprint to offer improved shopping experiences, opened eight brand new Winn-Dixie stores in Florida and expanded its growing Hispanic grocery store, Fresco y Más, into a new community in Southwest Florida.
Over the course of the year, Southeastern Grocers has renewed 32 stores throughout its footprint to offer improved shopping experiences and opened eight brand new Winn-Dixie stores in Florida. (Photo: Business Wire)