HAMBURG TWP. — Shoppers at the Kroger in Hamburg Township will notice a transformation during their next grocery trip.
Store officials, employees and local leaders gathered Wednesday, July 31, to commemorate the completion of a nearly 30,000-square-foot expansion of the store at 9700 Chilson Commons Circle near Pinckney.
The national grocery and pharmacy retailer invested about $17.6 million to update the store, company officials said.
“We call it a combination store,” Ken DeLuca, president of Kroger Co. of Michigan, told The Daily. “All of our departments are expanded as opposed to a conventional store, which would be a small, more traditional grocery store.”
The store remained open during about a year’s worth of construction and reconfiguration. The additional square footage makes space for a large health and beauty section near the pharmacy (which has a new drive-thru), wider aisles for more products and more check-out lanes. The produce section also grew, and the store added a cheese shop kiosk and Starbuck’s counter.