Hill's Food Stores
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Hill's Food Stores (or Hill Grocery Company) was a chain of grocery stores founded in Birmingham in 1911.
The chain was marketed alongside Piggly Wiggly in the 1930s.
Golden Flake potato chips were created by Magic City Foods, located in the basement of the original Hill's.
Hill's was bought by Jacksonville, Florida-based Winn-Dixie in the early 1960s. Initially the stores kept their names, selling Winn-Dixie meat and other products. By the end of the decade the brand transition was completed.
Locations included:
- "Big Store", 408-10 20th Street South (before 1914)
- "No. 2", 410 24th Street North (before 1914)
- "No. 3", 1004 19th Street North (before 1914)
- "No. 4", 731 15th Street South (before 1914)
- "No. 5", 1200 Cotton Avenue, Westfield (before 1914)
- "No. 6", 1130 Avenue F Ensley (before 1914)
- Clairmont Avenue
- 2 Cotton Avenue, Arlington-West End (opened January 19, 1950)
- Eastwood Mall
- 2806 18th Street South
- 1120 Oxmoor Road, Edgewood (later Dawson Memorial Baptist Church Recreation Center, now a parking deck)
- 3000 Montgomery Highway (U.S. Highway 31) in Homewood (opened January 20, 1949, now Piggly Wiggly)
- East Side Square, Huntsville
- Jasper
- 1st Avenue North in Woodlawn
- 200 Spring Street in Avondale
- Mountain Brook Village
- 1100 24th Street North (Norwood) - opened June 27, 1957
- 2600 31st Avenue North (North Birmingham) - opened April 21, 1949
- Hueytown Road (Hueytown) - opened August 20, 1959
- 851 Park Road, Pleasant Grove (now Hill's Foodland)
- U.S. Highway 78 at Heflin Road in Forestdale - opened August 25, 1960