The winners, losers and ones to watch in Detroit's grocery wars
Apr 25, 2022 - News Axios Media, Annalise Frank
Kroger beat Meijer for most popular Southeast Michigan grocery store with 82 stores in the region [[but none in Detroit) trumping Meijer's 40 locations. This data would be vastly different, of course, if we looked at just Detroit.
Detroit recently got its third Meijer location — a small-format store called Rivertown Market on Jefferson — but, in general, big grocers have failed to establish meaningful presences here.
There's dozens of independent grocers, but that doesn’t fill the need for sustainable healthy food options. Nearly 40% of Detroit households are food insecure, according to a 2019 Detroit Food Policy Council.
$500 million in Detroit grocery retail revenue is lost per year because people shop outside the city, the report says.

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