There are 14 article(s) tagged grocery stores:

• March 2025

  • Aldi to open Medical District store next week

    The latest from the no-frills national grocery chain will be located at 785 Union Ave., in a building that once housed an Office Depot. 

    By Aisling Mäki March 31, 2025

• February 2025

  • Aldi to open Union Avenue store this spring

    Grab your quarter; Memphis’ 14th Aldi will open in the Medical District, part of the neighborhood’s recent burst of growth. 

    By Aisling Mäki February 27, 2025

• March 2023

  • Spice itself is the spice of life, at least in the kitchen

    Keeping the pantry stocked with spices is key to be able to cook up a good meal; Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington discuss the most important ones.

    By Jennifer Biggs March 09, 2023

• September 2022

  • Gordon brings a new kind of grocery experience to Memphis

    Gordon Food Service opens in Midtown on Thursday and it’s a new kind of grocery for Memphis, a wholesale and retail combination complete with a big produce section and a deli.

    By Jennifer Biggs September 26, 2022

• August 2022

  • Tennessee’s grocery tax holiday ends midnight Wednesday, but food insecurity doesn’t

    The one-month grocery tax holiday has helped people stretch their budgets, but it has not made a dent in the issue of food insecurity, the Mid-South Food Bank’s CEO says.

    By Ian Round August 30, 2022

• February 2022

  • Grocers weigh in on why store shelves are bare

    While some officials say the problem is not as serious as news media and social media portray it, empty shelves and food shortages exist and there’s a multiple choice of causes.

    By Christin Yates February 13, 2022

• October 2021

  • Grocery chain opts out of Lakeland spot for now

    “This may resurface at some time in the future, but for now this project as previously outlined will not move forward.” 

    By Michael Waddell October 26, 2021

• September 2021

  • What Binghampton’s Save A Lot experiment taught us about food deserts

    Neighborhood residents in North and South Memphis have endured the loss of grocers in recent years, leaving them with a yet another challenge to endure. 

    By Omer Yusuf September 22, 2021

  • Lakeland BOC approves matters related to New Canada Road project

    A long-awaited realignment of Canada Road in Lakeland is moving closer to reality.

    By Michael Waddell September 03, 2021

• February 2021

  • Michigan grocery business looks to Midtown Memphis location

    Michigan-based Gordon Food Service — which caters both to restaurants and the food-service industry as well as the general public — has stores in Nashville and Knoxville but none yet in Memphis. 

    By Tom Bailey February 24, 2021

• October 2020

  • Efforts to bring grocery to Downtown/South City fail

    A developer has given up — for now — on a two-year effort to recruit a grocery store to serve South City in an otherwise comprehensive, $227 million project to improve the quality of life in the economically distressed neighborhood.

    By Tom Bailey October 18, 2020

• March 2020

  • No shortage of food, but grocers limited by rationing of paper products, bread

    Memphis-area groceries say there’s no shortage of food products, but paper products is another story.

    By Wayne Risher March 27, 2020

• October 2018

  • Another neighborhood grocery, Montesi’s, will close

    Neighborhood grocery Montesi’s announced this week that it will close by the end of October, becoming the second independent grocery in two weeks to shut its doors along the hard-hit Summer Avenue corridor.

    By Tom Bailey October 20, 2018

  • Cash Saver in Cloverleaf will close

    The Cash Saver grocery in the Cloverleaf Center will soon close, its owner confirmed Friday.

    By Tom Bailey October 12, 2018