The Sack & Save store in Vicksburg will shut down or be sold as part of a plan by its owner, Winn-Dixie, to close more than a third of its stores and remove 22,000 people from its work force as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy.

Winn-Dixie on Tuesday said 326 of its 913 stores will be closed or sold. It will cut 22,000 of 78,000 positions and an additional 500 workers will lose their jobs in the company’s corporate headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla.

Sack & Save, at 2080 S. Frontage Road in Vicksburg, is identified on the company’s Web site as closing. The company also indicated its adjacent fuel pumps, operated as Pump & Save, will be closed or sold.

Carl Flanders, Warren County’s District 4 supervisor, said the county received a letter from Mark Sellers, group vice president for operations at Winn-Dixie, who said he was notifying local governments under the Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

The letter said the store in Vicksburg would begin closing Aug. 20 and that about 60 employees would be affected, Flanders said.

Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. also will cease operations in four states – Tennessee, Virginia and North and South Carolina – and will trim operations in its five remaining states, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

The company said it will try to find buyers for the closing stores and ask the new owners to retain as many employees as possible.

In a statement, Winn-Dixie also said it will try to sell six dairy plants, its pizza plant in Montgomery, Ala., and its Chek Beverage/Deep South Products plant in Fitzgerald, Ga., which produces Chek soda, shelf-stable juices and condiments.

If buyers are not found, Winn-Dixie said it would continue to operate the Chek Beverage plant and its Hammond, La., and Plant City, Fla., dairies.

The company also said it’s working to find a third party to produce elsewhere the items made at its Astor Products plant in Jacksonville and the condiments at the Deep South plant. Those plants will then be closed.

Peter Lynch, district manager, had said for months the company must be smaller.

Winn-Dixie is leaving a number of larger markets, including Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah in Georgia; Charleston, Columbia and Greenville-Spartanburg in South Carolina; Charlotte, Greensboro-High Point and Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Columbus, Tupelo and Jackson in Mississippi; and Alexandria, La.

An announcement on corporate restructuring will be made later this summer.