POWER OF ATTORNEY



	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints Larry B. Appel and Bennett L. Nussbaum, as the undersigned's true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact to:

1)	Prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf,
and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID,
including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate
to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic
filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;
2)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director of Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. (the "Company"), Forms
3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and the rules thereunder;
3)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any  such Form 3, 4,  or
5, complete and execute any amendment of amendments thereto, and timely file
such form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
4)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power Of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.  The undersigned hereby grants to each such
attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act
and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise
of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full
power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that
such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes,
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and
that the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that
the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of
the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.   This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and
effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with
respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued
by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the forgoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEROF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 19th day of August 2010.


Signature: 	/s/Maura Hart
Printed Name:	Maura Hart