Dive Brief:
- Meijer announced Monday that it plans to open a location under its Meijer Grocery banner outside Detroit later this summer as the retailer continues to expand its fleet of smaller-format stores.
- The 75,000-square-foot supermarket, which is set to open on Aug. 19 in Livonia, Michigan, will be the fourth Meijer Grocery location in the retailer’s home state and fifth overall.
- The new store is scheduled to begin serving customers about three months after a fellow Meijer Grocery store opened in the northern Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, Michigan.
Dive Insight:
While Meijer’s business is built primarily around an empire of several hundred supercenters that typically occupy 150,000 to 250,000 square feet, the Midwestern retailer has also gradually developed a presence in the retail segment dominated by traditional grocers.
Like the Meijer Grocery stores the company has opened since announcing the format in 2022, the Livonia store will focus on helping customers buy food and other grocery essentials quickly. The new location at 33400 Seven Mile Road will include a bakery and pharmacy as well as health and beauty care, pet, meat, seafood and deli departments.
“These stores are designed to provide value and convenience to customers, right in the communities where they live and work each day,” Maureen Mitchell, vice president of the East Michigan Region for Meijer, said in a statement, referring to the Livonia and Rochester Hills stores.
Meijer also runs Meijer Grocery stores in Orion Township and Macomb Township, Michigan, which both opened in 2023, as well as a location in Noblesville, Indiana, that began operating in 2024.
The Michigan-based company also operates several neighborhood-focused grocery stores, the latest of which opened in Clarkston, Michigan, in April 2025. The 50,000-square-foot store, known as Independence Market, includes a floral and gift shop as well as a cafe that offers coffee and Latin street food from a local restaurant.
In addition to Michigan and Indiana, Meijer runs stores in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. The retailer also received approval from officials in the Pittsburgh-area community of Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, in December 2025 to develop a grocery store that would bring Meijer to a seventh state.
