I assume the current PW may have been the Giant Mart. The Ingles is west of town on GA-16 and across the street from that is a recently built Dollar General Market. The Piggly Wiggly is across from the WEBB's grocery. Jackson has a Piggly Wiggly at the intersection of GA hwy's 42 and 16 at the train tracks where GA-16 travels east to Monticello. All of these stores fit the description and all of them have a simular color scheme and are very different from the Piggly Wiggly's that are owned by Southern Family Foods serving the Macon area.
I am guessing that the current Piggly Wiggly stores in Manchester, Jackson, Talbotton and Roberta may have been Giant marts. I work and travel through these very areas quite frequently. Giant is the only grocery store in the town, which has a population of under 1000. Roberta is a small town about 25 minutes west of Macon. The Barnesville store is in a downtown strip center, and the only other competition in Barnesville is Ingles located on the bypass. All of the towns listed in your post are small county-seat, rural towns in which this would probably have been the "supermarket." Today.In Jackson, Giant competes with Ingles and Piggly Wiggly, both having relatively new stores on separate ends of town. Signage is individual plastic G I A N T lighted squares. The buildings are usually metal-sided stores with a concrete block front. The Giant Mart stores that I have seen appear to be very low-end.
He also said that the Atlanta Giant stores are what is left of the old Big Apple chain from the sixties. Crook also said that there was a chain of stores in the Macon, GA, are that used "Giant" in their name, as well as another inner-city chain in Atlanta that used "Giant" on their stores. While Giant Mart has only three stores left, Louis Jones - operating out of Columbus, GA - has quite a few more. Jones is not related to the Louis Jones which owns a chain of grocery stores that cover the same region. I am not sure if the manager also owned 49% of the business, but when I asked if it operated like Belk did years ago, he said "sorta." Jones would go into small towns back in the seventies and build a grocery, stock it with "everything that needed to go in it," and then the manager would receive 49% of the profits. He told me that the chain was started and is still owned by a Bill Jones, who is currently a lawyer in Jackson, Georgia. I asked the local grocer, Ellis Crook, whose family has owned Crook's Marketplace in Senoia, GA, for over 80 years, ago this chain. Sorry this took so long, but I wanted to get the facts straight on this.
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