It also priced each item separately, began using refrigerated cases for produce, had employees wear uniforms, and emphasized lower prices through high-volume sales. That includes self-service where customers pluck items off shelves and take them to a checkout counter to pay. That’s along the lines of the innovation Piggly Wiggly - famed for its smiling pig logo - is credited with as it helped modernize grocery retailing a century ago. It’s most recent addition was the 2015 opening of its state-of-the-art Woodruff Farm Road store that features environmentally friendly cooling and refrigeration. has grown both in stores and employees, with it having nearly 1,000 on its payroll today, and with an eye toward adding supermarkets if the right opportunity arises, Milligan said. And he’s proud of the company and what we’ve done and what the third generation is doing now as well.” “He said very lately several times how proud he is that we’re able to still compete against all the big boys and roll up our sleeves everyday. “I think he’s always had that wish that he would love to see it continue to thrive,” Milligan said of his father. Dad expressed pride recently amid JTM’s 50th anniversary this summer and the approaching 100-year milestone for Piggly Wiggly. The son, who handles marketing, advertising, volume pricing and category management for the chain, agreed that his father is a good example of achieving the American dream. alongside brothers Keith and Gil, with the help of a third generation of their sons heavily involved in the business. “It’s a chance to celebrate the 100th anniversary by giving as many people as you can those prices from a hundred years ago,” said Mike Milligan, who now operates JTM Corp. Playing off the Willy Wonka plot line in which young Charlie finds a golden ticket inside a candy bar wrapper, Phenix City-based JTM will be offering 1,900 Piggly Wiggly shoppers - 100 from each of its 19 stores - tickets that allow them to purchase five items at prices from Piggly Wiggly’s first advertisement after opening its first store in Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. Mike is a golden moment today for Piggly Wiggly and the company that operates the stores in and around the Columbus and Phenix City area, with JTM Corp., founded 50 years ago by meat cutter Tommy Milligan, also celebrating the 100th anniversary of the innovative grocery chain. Pig” greets customers as they shop at the Piggly Wiggly at 2424 Woodruff Farm Rd. “There were quite a few tears shed by both long-time customers and our employees when we announced that we were closing that store. “We’ve had a lot of loyal customers that have shopped with that store for a long time and we are so thankful for those folks,” Milligan said. Now, the 40-year-old Piggly Wiggly store is going dark. Highway 80 in Phenix City - about a mile away from Piggly Wiggly - in late January of this year. The mega-retailer then opened a Walmart Neighborhood Market off U.S. The nearby 3759 Victory Drive Piggly Wiggly in Heritage Corners shopping center was gone just seven months later. Highway 80 store was the smallest one owned by the company.īentonville, Ark.-based Walmart opened a freshly constructed Walmart Supercenter on Victory Drive last June. “The store was one of our two stores that had struggled to make money since Walmart opened all their latest stores in town,” Milligan said Wednesday via email, noting at 12,000 square feet, the U.S. The thread connecting both shuttered stores is the intensifying competition around them, particularly the construction of new Walmart locations in the area, said Keith Milligan, financial controller of JTM Corp., a family-owned business founded in 1966 by his father, Tommy Milligan, with brothers Mike and Gil Milligan also helping run the company through the years. That location opened in 1977 and was the first built from the ground up by the company as part of the center. Highway 80 store in Ladonia Square shopping center. On Wednesday, Phenix City-based JTM closed the doors of its 3745 U.S. The first was on Victory Drive in south Columbus in early February. Tony Corp., which operates the Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in the Columbus-Phenix City area, has pulled the plug on its second struggling store in less than six months. is closing a local store, but will still have 17 locations in Columbus and Phenix City and the surrounding area.
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