Southeastern Grocers
It is hard to believe that supermarkets have been suffering as well. Southeastern Grocers is the parent company of Winn-Dixie, Harveys, and Bi-Lo. It announced that it would shutter 22 stores toward the end of March 2019. This was not even a year after it bounced back from its previous Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. At the time, it shut down 94 stores. Bi-Lo lost the most since it ceased the operation of 13 stores.
Shopko
At first, Shopko shared its intention to shutter 70 percent of its total locations by May 2019. It later changed plans and said that all stores would be closed permanently. The company filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. It placed its hopes in a buyer that could help it recover from this mess. Sadly, this did not come to fruition. The retailer was forced to liquidate and pulled the plug on all shops by June 2019.