sentences:  A total of 114 Delchamps stores were purchased, with a handful being closed and another small group being re-branded as Jitney Jungle.However, the purchase and Jitney's takeover by an investment firm proved to be ill-advised, and by 1999 the combined chains went into bankruptcy.The next year some stores were sold off to competitor Winn-Dixie; most of those locations have since closed in the wake of that chain's own troubles and retrenchment toward its northern Florida base.