Grocery Update: Regionals

Here’s expansion news from a trio of regional supermarket chains:

Meijer (Grand Rapids, Mich.) has opened more three stores in Northern Ohio. The 159,000-square-foot Supercenters are in Austintown, near Youngtown, and two Cleveland-are cities: Medina and Richmond Heights. Meijer opened its first Ohio store in 1981 and has since grown to have 58 locales there, along with distribution and manufacturing facilities in Tipp City.

Weis (Sunbury, Pa.) plans to open four new stores later this year and in early 2026, its first additions since 2022. Three of the locations are in Maryland (Linganore, Charlotte Hall and Waldorf ) while the other is in Middletown, Del. Founded in 1912, Weis has 198 stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia and Virginia.

Chedraui Grupo Comercial (Mexico City) said it accelerated its organic growth in 2024 by opening 84 stores in Mexico and six in the United States, bringing its store totals to 541 and 384, respectively. (In Mexico, the grocery/department store chain operates under the Tienda Chedraui, Super Chedraui, Súper Che, Supercito and Tiendas Arteli brands, while in the U.S., it operates as El Super and Fiesta Mart.) The company said so far this year it has opened 15 more stores in Mexico, but did not offer any projections of future openings either there or in the U.S.