Publix to add another GreenWise Market location, this time in Birmingham


Publix Super Markets Inc. continues to expand its new GreenWise Market banner, this time with a location in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Lakeland-based grocer said Friday that it is acquiring two leases from Western Market, a Birmingham-based grocery chain. One of those locations, in Vestavia Hills, will open as a traditional Publix store. The other, in Mountain Brook, will be a GreenWise Market slated to open by the third quarter of 2019.

“This acquisition allows us to expand our presence in the…

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