![]() owns nine Piggly Wigglys in Mobile and four in Baldwin County-in Fairhope, Foley, Loxley and Spanish Fort, Alabama. ![]() At that time we had three other stores.” Help from above “Sometime in 1978, 1979, we actually closed the first store that I bought because it was not performing. “I was too dumb to quit, didn’t know a darned thing, but in any case, they kept offering and I kept taking,” he said. Those stores all failed, and as they did, Manning would get a call asking him if he could take on another store. continued to decline, store managers were buying up locations. Eight Mile was their hometown.Īs Opportunity Stores Inc. “It was a Saturday night at closing time-8 o’clock-when I took possession of the store,” he said. He did manage to take over the Food Town No. “My first store cost me $139,000, I had to come up with $39,000 worth of paper or cash. “He turned a sheet of paper around and said, ‘Sign here and give me $39,000,’” he said. He became aware that the company was having trouble, so he asked a good friend who was a controller there how to get hold of a store. “It was a key punch-type, card-driven system.” “It was a big monstrosity,” Manning said. There he started programming one of the first computers, a Burroughs B35. It transferred Manning to Pensacola, Florida. based in Corpus Christi, Texas, took over. “I learned how to do that and then the company was sold.” Danny ManningĪ company called Opportunity Stores Inc. It was programmed by boards with wires running from one hole to the next,” he said. “At that time, there was no computer in that building. He went back to Food Town, which put him to work as a data processing manager at Campbell Grocery Co. Once he graduated from high school, Manning went on to study computer programming. He moved to stocking, found favor with the company and got a produce rack about a year later. Danny Manning has come a long way since he started as a bagger at 15 years old at a Food Town store in Eight Mile, Alabama.
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