Meijer to bring a small-format grocery to Taylor, city officials said

Meijer Grocery, a small-format grocery store, is in the works for the City of Taylor, Michigan.

The City of Taylor said its Planning Commission approved the plans at its May 6 meeting. The construction date and potential opening date have not been announced. 

The store will be built at 8000 Telegraph Road, at the northeast corner of Telegraph and Champaign, adjacent to an existing shopping center. A Sheetz convenience store and gas station is in the works for the southwest corner of Telegraph and Champaign. 

The grocery store with a drive-through pharmacy will be just over 75,000 square feet in size, or about one-fourth the size of a Meijer Supercenter that also sells general merchandise and household goods, city officials said. The Meijer Grocery stores feature Michigan-made or locally-grown items in their selections of baked goods, wines and other specialty foods.  

This will be the third new grocery store opening in Taylor in about a year, city officials said. Aldi has built a new store on Eureka Road, and Kroger is planning a second grocery store near the corner of Telegraph and Eureka.   

"These major grocery stores not only offer shopping variety and opportunities, but they also bring really solid jobs," Mayor Tim Woolley said. "This is tremendous news for Taylor."  

Meijer is a family-owned retail chain based in Grand Rapids, primarily doing business in the Midwest. The company opened its first grocery store in 1934 and its first supercenter in 1962. It now has four store formats within its brand: supercenters, grocery stores, neighborhood markets and express locations. 

While city officials identified the shop as a Meijer Market in their announcement, the company has since explained that it will be a Meijer Grocery. It will be similar to, but larger than, the Meijer Grocery that recently opened in Rochester Hills.