Northern Florida Retail Blog

                                    Former Publix #489 (1994-2008)                                                                                                                11220 Hutchison Blvd                                            Panama City Beach, FL   While much of Florida is dominated (well I would say SUPER dominated by Publix Supermakets), they don't have quite the large store count or concentration in the neck of the woods where I hail from, the...

As many of you may know, a terrible hurricane by the name of Michael slammed into the Eastern Florida Panhandle just 8 miles east of Panama City over Tyndall AFB. The hurricane was rapidly intensifying upon landfall, and hurricane hunters reported top sustained winds of 155 mph with a central pressure of 919 mb at landfall! Unless you're a meteorologist, that probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but Michael was in fact the 3rd most intense hurricane to ever hit the United States, and it hit the area where I grew up in the Panama City, Lynn Haven, and Callaway areas of Florida's Panhandle https://flic.kr/p/QxHHzj https://flic.kr/p/2bykk9b Uh, I digress. As many of you may know I am interested in retail, especially one particular grocery chain that I have been strangely fascinated with for years, Albertsons! I so, so, so wish I had grabbed my camera back in 2005 and had snapped some photos of the Panama City Albertsons back then. Little did a know, but my fav...