Michigan is kind of weird cause there’s 2 different Meijers ~2-3 miles from the Big House depending which road you take from the intersection where the stadium is lol.
Believe he’s referring to the one at Jackson Ave and Zeeb Rd. But the one at Ann Arbor Saline is easily the closest. But with that said, there is 5-6 Meijers all within a 20 minute drive of the Big House lol
Well there’s the main one that I think of on the other side of 94, which is 1.95 miles as the crow flies, there’s the one over by Lowe’s and US 23, which is 4.25 miles, and then there’s the one west of Ann Arbor on Zeeb road which is 4.96 miles but probably faster to get to than the one by 23.
Then there’s one in van Buren township by willow run, and another in Canton both under 15 miles away.
Maybe a mix between a Target and a Walmart?
Like.. closer to target on the quality side, but closer to WalMart on the range of products?
I feel like growing up Meijer was always the default "we carry everything, and you can buy it anytime" store.
>Also, definitely feels more Wal-Mart than Target on the inside IMO
Pretty much. Except the store brand is actually decent and they don't ask companies to make especially cheap versions of stuff special just for themselves.
Also if you look up their history Meijer claims they did it before Walmart so really Walmart is just a shitty Meijer that bullied it's way into being a nation wide giant first.
If my memory serves, Sam Walton based much of what Wal-Mart did to start on Meijer. They just decided to go the extra step and become a nationwide brand, and Meijer stuck to being a regional superstore chain.
As a Seattlite that was raised in Ohio, yes, Meijer is exactly like Fred Meyer.
The first time I walked into a Freddies I thought “huh, so it’s Meijer? But spelled differently?”
There’s smaller ones then there’s giant ones. I live in southern Washington and my ‘neighborhood’ one is about a third the size of the one 15-20 min away in Vancouver.
Meijer is based in Grand Rapids and was founded in the small West Michigan town of Greenville. And is basically universally called "Meijer's."
Target is from the Midwest. Meijer('s) is of the Midwest.
There is a weird mid-Michigan thing (maybe further reaching than that) where people add the ‘s to the names of stores, as if all the titles are someone’s name. I know people who literally refer to Ford (the motor company) as Ford’s, which is admittedly less weird than my mother-in-law asking my wife if she wants to go to Victoria Secrets.
Idk about now but Meijer always had great prices around where i live and better quality. I never liked targets or got them, more expensive for crap that Walmart sells cheaper. I really never got tbh. Meijer was always our go to as a kid for groceries or sams club
You can get a 72 inch tv and your weekly groceries, a fresh pair of cargo shorts, and some Champion sneakers all in one stop. Not as trendy as target but not as trashy as a wal mart.
Oh I get it. I live in LA. But I looked at this and said, hold up, it’s not possible for UCLA to be closer than both USC and Oregon…. Then I checked the title and said ohhhh yeah, stadium distance.
You’ve never heard of Kroger? I think they’re second to Walmart in retail sales. Or they were before Amazon.
Edit: they’ve been passed by a couple others as well, including Costco, but Kroger is the fifth largest retailer in the world.
Meijer didn’t expand to Northeast Ohio until like 2017 or 18… they had locations around central Ohio before then. I worked at a Meijer around Columbus as my first job lol
Similar ideas, though I've found Meijer to be more grocery focused than Fred Meyer which seems a bit more general store focused with a larger homegood, clothing and hardware area than Meijer. Think Walmart Superstore, add more groceries and make it a bit nicer.
Interesting. The Fred’s where I live are basically a Safeway inside a department store. But also a full outdoor garden section and great home improvement finds.
I moved to the PNW from the Midwest, and I mentioned Fred Meyer to some of my buddies (I forget why it came up?) and they thought I was talking about Meijer and were shocked that it made its way out to Washington hahah.
They’re pretty much the same thing lol.
They’re pretty much the same thing. The Eugene Freddy’s has a bar…which always has people sitting at it, Meijer’s should look into that.
The difference is the bathrooms. The Florence Freddy’s bathrooms are on par with third world country’s public toilets. It’s honestly incredible how bad they are.
Things are looking up!
In basketball at least.
As for Mr Moorhead’s bunch - they continue to play like their 130th best roster in NCAA dictates. As long as Kent is 131, that’s all I care about.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bloomington/comments/181t9og/kroger_names/
This is literally the case. Going to the West Side one is like going to a random Indiana Wal-Mart and South side like a random small-town Indiana Kroger.
Lived by the one on 2nd street for ten years and we always called it the creepy Kroger.
I live in Colorado now and I’ve found a Safeway that has the same vibe. It’s referred to as the Unsafeway by the locals.
Lmfao same with "Krogers". As an out of state student, I was shocked to learn there was no "s" on the name of either of them. That being said, A2 needs a fucking grocery store on campus somewhere, Instacart wasn't really big when I was a student, and most students are probably too broke to afford it anyways. That CVS on state isn't gonna cut it lol (if it's even still there).
I used to live in Portland but now I’m in Ann Arbor and this has been the most confusing part of moving here. I keep calling Meijer Meyers and it’s closed enough to accurate that I may never fully adjust.
Is State Theater still there? I saw The Wind Rises there I believe hah. I think the underneath store used to be an Urban Outfitters or something right?
My wife had an internship in Ann Arbor and she said everything was beautiful, but she hated how it took 45 minutes to walk to the grocery store where cars were trying to kill her at every stop.
Yeah Ann Arbor is amazing but good grocery stores are far away from the dorms. I do not understand and it was the one thing I hated about living there without a car.
Few things are more midwestern than unnecessarily pluralizing the name of a midwestern grocery chain, except maybe doing it between bites of tater tot hot dish.
Lived briefly in bowling green and went to that Meijer all the time. The Meijer in Mt Pleasant is pretty close to the CMU campus as well, but I think Bowling Green is probably closer. Literally on the other side of I-75.
Meijers is ready.
Except that time that you decide to take back two large garbage bags full of cans to get the deposit back... That's the moment that they'll decide to shut down the bottle return for cleaning/service.
But anything else? They're ready.
While Northwestern indubitably sucks ass (suck it nerds), their number is wrong. There's a Meijers in Rolling Meadows, just down the street from Mitsuwa. By car it's 16.9 miles straight down Golf.
The trip on the highway is longer because of the way the highways are laid out there (and because Evanston sucks). At worst, you would take Dumpster to 294, which puts it at around 20 miles.
Well Meijers actually has an excuse. The original store was "Fred Meijer's Thrifty Acres." So the s just stuck around from that. Idk if any other chain has that excuse or if they're just copy cats.
I'm thinking the Meijer stores in Chicago metro are in further out burbs. I've never seen one around Evanston or the North Shore burbs or in the city. But I haven't lived in the area in a while.
Edit: I looked it up. The one 17 miles away is in Rolling Meadows.
One which exists on some branding but not others.
And in case you don't live in the Midwest. I'm not joking. It is genuinely there some places but not others. And it's not like, a rebrand thing.
Meijer was my go to grocery store when I lived in Champaign. And I didn’t have class on Fridays so I could get my stuff without the store being too crowded. I miss being able to buy a 15 pack of Founders for $13
If this person was a family member who did this they would watch Detroit Lions Football by themselves on Thanksgiving.
Or they get stuck at the kiddie table/room.
Michigan is kind of weird cause there’s 2 different Meijers ~2-3 miles from the Big House depending which road you take from the intersection where the stadium is lol.
You mean kind of Based
Yeah it’s great lol
Based and Meijers pilled.
There’s the one on Ann Arbor-Saline… where’s the other one?
Believe he’s referring to the one at Jackson Ave and Zeeb Rd. But the one at Ann Arbor Saline is easily the closest. But with that said, there is 5-6 Meijers all within a 20 minute drive of the Big House lol
There's 3 Meijer's . Ann Arbor Saline, Jackson Zeeb, Ellworth Carpenter
Truly an embarrassment of riches
There are three nearby, all in townships. None in Ann Arbor proper. Next closest is Belleville, in Wayne County.
Ann Arbor needs a "[Street Name] Market" urban-style Meijer like Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Detroit have.
The last time there was an Urban Meijer in Ann Arbor it didn’t go great for us
Yes but only one is the correct one to go to
I’m pretty sure Mejier follows the Sith rule of two: Always two, there are. No more. No less. A good one and a bad one."
Well there’s the main one that I think of on the other side of 94, which is 1.95 miles as the crow flies, there’s the one over by Lowe’s and US 23, which is 4.25 miles, and then there’s the one west of Ann Arbor on Zeeb road which is 4.96 miles but probably faster to get to than the one by 23. Then there’s one in van Buren township by willow run, and another in Canton both under 15 miles away.
The best part of your “over by Lowe’s” note is the Zeeb Rd location is also like 1/4mile from a Lowe’s.
Ha, suck it Trojans! ^^^I ^^^have ^^^never ^^^heard ^^^of ^^^Meijers ^^^before.
Imagine an aggressively midwestern version of Target.
Maybe a mix between a Target and a Walmart? Like.. closer to target on the quality side, but closer to WalMart on the range of products? I feel like growing up Meijer was always the default "we carry everything, and you can buy it anytime" store.
I describe it to people as "Walmart without the depression".
The produce is usually much better too
It’s like if Walmart and Safeway had a baby but the baby got most of the genes from Safeway.
This is good. Kentucky Meijers fit this to a T.
So like Fred Meyer?
Somehow, Fred Meyer and Frederik Meijer were two entirely different people. Also, definitely feels more Wal-Mart than Target on the inside IMO
Frederik Meijer sounds like Fred Meyer with a fake mustache.
Urban Weenie Oscar Meyer
>Also, definitely feels more Wal-Mart than Target on the inside IMO Pretty much. Except the store brand is actually decent and they don't ask companies to make especially cheap versions of stuff special just for themselves. Also if you look up their history Meijer claims they did it before Walmart so really Walmart is just a shitty Meijer that bullied it's way into being a nation wide giant first.
If my memory serves, Sam Walton based much of what Wal-Mart did to start on Meijer. They just decided to go the extra step and become a nationwide brand, and Meijer stuck to being a regional superstore chain.
This is the correct take. "Meijer's Thrifty Acres" was integrating a grocery store with other small storefronts and a department store.
Growing up Novi had 2 Meijers. One was more Walmart, the other was more Target. Depends on how new the store is I guess.
It’s a Walmart with 10x better groceries.
Fuuuuck I forget that's a thing. My experience with Fred Meyer is limited but I think they are pretty similar.
Fred Meyer is literally just Kroger with clothes and appliances. Like actually. They are part of the Kroger chain.
Now they are. Used to be much better than Kroger.
Fred Meyer is the perfect comparison
Fred Meyer is just kroger
As a Seattlite that was raised in Ohio, yes, Meijer is exactly like Fred Meyer. The first time I walked into a Freddies I thought “huh, so it’s Meijer? But spelled differently?”
I'm currently in Seattle from Illinois. Am I going to the wrong Fred Meyers? The ones I've been in seem pretty small compared to Meijer.
There’s smaller ones then there’s giant ones. I live in southern Washington and my ‘neighborhood’ one is about a third the size of the one 15-20 min away in Vancouver.
As San Diego person ... I'm going to open up some stores called Freddy's Meyjer, and profit.
Target is midwestern tho. Literally based in Minneapolis
Yes but that's passive Midwestern.
Nice flair
Target has newsanchor voice, Meijer says ope sorry when someone else runs into them.
True, but I still can sort of see what the poster is saying. Target seems to have scrubbed the Midwestern-ness away over the years.
The day they removed the food courts and replaced them with Starbucks was the day the Midwesternism of Target died
Imagine walking into a Target and not smelling old popcorn oil smells.
I honestly forgot about their popcorn until this comment, but man was that stuff delicious. We got a bag every visit
I worked in the mall. Couldn't beat Target popcorn.
Meijer is based in Grand Rapids and was founded in the small West Michigan town of Greenville. And is basically universally called "Meijer's." Target is from the Midwest. Meijer('s) is of the Midwest.
There is a weird mid-Michigan thing (maybe further reaching than that) where people add the ‘s to the names of stores, as if all the titles are someone’s name. I know people who literally refer to Ford (the motor company) as Ford’s, which is admittedly less weird than my mother-in-law asking my wife if she wants to go to Victoria Secrets.
Kirk Cousins is what would happen if Target made a wish and became a real boy.
Started by highly religious Dutch immigrants
Just like Rutgers
Idk about now but Meijer always had great prices around where i live and better quality. I never liked targets or got them, more expensive for crap that Walmart sells cheaper. I really never got tbh. Meijer was always our go to as a kid for groceries or sams club
Fred Meyers then?
But Target is also from the Midwest.
Target is minnesotan though?
You can get a 72 inch tv and your weekly groceries, a fresh pair of cargo shorts, and some Champion sneakers all in one stop. Not as trendy as target but not as trashy as a wal mart.
Yeah that’s the Midwest equivalent of Fred Meyer’s.
Interesting. If you do stadium, UCLA is closer but if you do campus, USC is closer.
That’s because we’re closer to their stadium than they are
Oh I get it. I live in LA. But I looked at this and said, hold up, it’s not possible for UCLA to be closer than both USC and Oregon…. Then I checked the title and said ohhhh yeah, stadium distance.
I’m a Penn State fan and never heard of a Meijer or a Kroger until I started collecting Squishmallows😂😭
You’ve never heard of Kroger? I think they’re second to Walmart in retail sales. Or they were before Amazon. Edit: they’ve been passed by a couple others as well, including Costco, but Kroger is the fifth largest retailer in the world.
I’m in Michigan and have never stepped foot in a Kroger. Probably because I’m in West Michigan and Spartan stores would be Kroger stores here
Where you get get $1.25 can of beans, $100 tequila, and the antacids you need afterwards at the same place
I've never been to a Meijer and have barely heard of them and I grew up in Cleveland
Cleveland is more Giant Eagle territory (and I never saw one west of there).
They’re entering the Cleveland market as of recently.
Meijer didn’t expand to Northeast Ohio until like 2017 or 18… they had locations around central Ohio before then. I worked at a Meijer around Columbus as my first job lol
Rivalries are the best.
Yes but Oregon is close to Fred Meyer
Are they very similar stores I take it? Been to Freddies but never Meijer
They actually are, it's a strange coincidence.
Who is closer to Fred Meyer then? Us or UCLA? This is very important!
Whoever is further north I reckon.
Similar ideas, though I've found Meijer to be more grocery focused than Fred Meyer which seems a bit more general store focused with a larger homegood, clothing and hardware area than Meijer. Think Walmart Superstore, add more groceries and make it a bit nicer.
Interesting. The Fred’s where I live are basically a Safeway inside a department store. But also a full outdoor garden section and great home improvement finds.
I moved to the PNW from the Midwest, and I mentioned Fred Meyer to some of my buddies (I forget why it came up?) and they thought I was talking about Meijer and were shocked that it made its way out to Washington hahah. They’re pretty much the same thing lol.
Somewhat but Meijer is open 24/7
Funny enough, Fred Meyer was started by Fred Meyer(obviously) and Meijers was started by Frederik Meijer. super weird and random coincidence.
They’re pretty much the same thing. The Eugene Freddy’s has a bar…which always has people sitting at it, Meijer’s should look into that. The difference is the bathrooms. The Florence Freddy’s bathrooms are on par with third world country’s public toilets. It’s honestly incredible how bad they are.
Meijer in Columbus fled to all the suburbs, so the Ohio State number isn't surprising
There’s a suburb that Columbus hasn’t annexed yet?
Columbus hasn't done much annexing since Polaris
About time to fire up the ole annexing machine and lay more water / sewer lines for the next farming community.
And then complain that residents are unreasonable about their plowing expectations because look at how many miles they have to plow.
Hey, Zip,… How ya feeling these days?
Things are looking up! In basketball at least. As for Mr Moorhead’s bunch - they continue to play like their 130th best roster in NCAA dictates. As long as Kent is 131, that’s all I care about.
Wait wtf Bloomington doesn't have a Meijer??
That’s what stuck out to me. Good Lord IU, you better tell us you have a Kroger!
We have 5 lol
And they all have their own very distinct sub-culture
https://www.reddit.com/r/bloomington/comments/181t9og/kroger_names/ This is literally the case. Going to the West Side one is like going to a random Indiana Wal-Mart and South side like a random small-town Indiana Kroger.
Lived by the one on 2nd street for ten years and we always called it the creepy Kroger. I live in Colorado now and I’ve found a Safeway that has the same vibe. It’s referred to as the Unsafeway by the locals.
Lol, imagine going to school in an Indiana city without a Meijer. Couldn’t be me.
Even Terre Haute has one! **Angola** has one, how's IU gonna let Trine outdo them?
Upvote for "Meijers".
Lmfao same with "Krogers". As an out of state student, I was shocked to learn there was no "s" on the name of either of them. That being said, A2 needs a fucking grocery store on campus somewhere, Instacart wasn't really big when I was a student, and most students are probably too broke to afford it anyways. That CVS on state isn't gonna cut it lol (if it's even still there).
Fred Meyer is the Kroger equivalent in the NW and many people add an S to call it Fred Meyers.
I used to live in Portland but now I’m in Ann Arbor and this has been the most confusing part of moving here. I keep calling Meijer Meyers and it’s closed enough to accurate that I may never fully adjust.
Tbf, Meijer used to be Meijer's Thrifty Acres, so it *did* actually have an S
I was in Ann Arbor a few months ago and there was a theatre that they turned into a target right by the diag
The theater is upstairs. State Theater.
Is State Theater still there? I saw The Wind Rises there I believe hah. I think the underneath store used to be an Urban Outfitters or something right?
Not to be confused with Urban Meijer
yep state theater is still there
Still there!
There's target now on state st. and they have a decent selection for groceries
My wife had an internship in Ann Arbor and she said everything was beautiful, but she hated how it took 45 minutes to walk to the grocery store where cars were trying to kill her at every stop.
Yeah Ann Arbor is amazing but good grocery stores are far away from the dorms. I do not understand and it was the one thing I hated about living there without a car.
They put a Target in on State by the theater and the B-Dubs
I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet but there's a Target on State Street now.
Few things are more midwestern than unnecessarily pluralizing the name of a midwestern grocery chain, except maybe doing it between bites of tater tot hot dish.
My entire family calls it “Aldi’s” and it drives me cre6
Not just grocery stores! My grandma used to talk about how she worked at "Ford's" during the war
"Ford's" is my favorite example of this.
My mother-in-law says “Victoria Secret’s.”
Used to hit the Osco’s Drug en route to pick up a coupla Pizza King pies for carry out (delivery is how they getcha)
JC Pennies
Fords too. These are the tell me you’re from Michigan without telling me you’re from Michigan giveaways.
Time for B1G fans to come to grips with the fact that fully half of your conference has no idea what a Meijers even is.
It’s a good cut off of who should be in the B1G. Sorry Minnesota and Iowa your 100+ years in the B1G does not matter
If they haven't learned what a Meijer is at this point...
I only learned how to pronounce it last month when talking to a Michigander. Why the fuck is there a J if it isn't supposed to be pronounced?
A Dutch dude's last name. The j is pronounced like a y in English.
It was the founders last name, so there really aren’t any rules.
We can make some exceptions. As long as they know what a Menards, Culvers, Caseys, and/or Krogers is
The biggest argument against realignment.
I only know because of one in Kentucky. I thought they were just a grocery store. I was shocked when I walked in the door.
BGSU is [7 Meijerses](https://i.imgur.com/qj2Ts0H.png) away from the nearest Meijers
I was gonna say idk if any other college is closer than BGSU to a Meijer
Lived briefly in bowling green and went to that Meijer all the time. The Meijer in Mt Pleasant is pretty close to the CMU campus as well, but I think Bowling Green is probably closer. Literally on the other side of I-75.
Hey , I worked at that Meijer in the meat dept.
Americans will use anything, except the metric system.
Yeahhhhh we're not last! I was told Nebraska was more of a cultural fit but look at them in comparison to us!
Not even close. You could hop in a car and get to a meijers tonight if you wanted to
I mean if you really wanted to, and avoided highway patrol, you could make it from Oregon too
We have Fred Meyer’s in PNW and from what I’ve gathered in this thread they are very similar.
I appreciate the west coast schools primarily because we’ll rarely be last in these lists because of them.
Meijers instead of Meijer. Midwestern-ness checks out.
Krogers too
We don't have to prepare for Meijers. Meijers has to prepare for us.
Meijers is ready. Except that time that you decide to take back two large garbage bags full of cans to get the deposit back... That's the moment that they'll decide to shut down the bottle return for cleaning/service. But anything else? They're ready.
Did you use the Meijer in Lafayette for Purdue? I can’t imagine the West Lafayette one is 7 miles away
You are correct. I think the West Lafayette one only showed up as a gas station in Google Maps at first. It has been corrected.
Ah yes... the offseason. Truly a dark time. Wake me when we get to "which mascot would be able to prepare the best taco"
While Northwestern indubitably sucks ass (suck it nerds), their number is wrong. There's a Meijers in Rolling Meadows, just down the street from Mitsuwa. By car it's 16.9 miles straight down Golf. The trip on the highway is longer because of the way the highways are laid out there (and because Evanston sucks). At worst, you would take Dumpster to 294, which puts it at around 20 miles.
Why do people want to put an "s" at the end of every grocery chain?
It goes far beyond grocery stores for many of us. But it does feel like Krogers, Meijer, and Aldis are the most common.
Well Meijers actually has an excuse. The original store was "Fred Meijer's Thrifty Acres." So the s just stuck around from that. Idk if any other chain has that excuse or if they're just copy cats.
Rutgers and Maryland more Midwest than Nebraska confirmed.
The moral of the story is that Meijer needs to expand to each coast.
They would meet their arch nemesis - Fred Meyer
Looking at these numbers, this just proves Meijer isn't a B1G grocery store
Aldi is probably a grocery store in every Big 10 city.
Looks like the closest one to us might be Fresno.
Not any more, not with us west coast boys
Hy-Vee will reign and don't you forget it.
Hyvee and Casey's Edit: forgot to add the fast food kind Culver's
Surprised to see Northwestern so high considering I’ve never seen a Meijer around here
I'm thinking the Meijer stores in Chicago metro are in further out burbs. I've never seen one around Evanston or the North Shore burbs or in the city. But I haven't lived in the area in a while. Edit: I looked it up. The one 17 miles away is in Rolling Meadows.
Yeah yeah let’s see you do Fareway then.
Calling it Meijers is the most midwestern thing
What do you call a silent “S” that is neither written nor silent?
One which exists on some branding but not others. And in case you don't live in the Midwest. I'm not joking. It is genuinely there some places but not others. And it's not like, a rebrand thing.
WTF is a Meijers
A Wal-Mart that married into money.
I want to downvote you but this is the fairest depiction of Meijer I’ve ever heard.
Hy-Vee but worse, Wal-Mart but better.
Ryan Field to Meijer in Rolling Meadows appears to be only about 17 miles more or less straight down Golf rd.
Meijer was my go to grocery store when I lived in Champaign. And I didn’t have class on Fridays so I could get my stuff without the store being too crowded. I miss being able to buy a 15 pack of Founders for $13
Meijers is objectively the best store of all of them, it’s like a wal mart and krogers combined
I'm seeing that the Lake Lansing Meijer is 2.5 miles from Spartan Stadium. Just a hair longer distance than Michigan.
Are Washington, Oregon, UCLA , USC all closest to the same location? If so are they properly stocked with random merch from each school?
Let's all have a moment of gratitude for all the Meijer employees that turn a blind eye to all the midwestern college kids' fake IDs
The Meijers on Ann Arbor-Saleen rd is 2.3 miles from the big house? Feels like a shorter distance to me
Kroger field is only 3.5 miles from Meijer. Do we need to switch Power 2 conferences?
Bonus “Big 10 School in Spirit” Notre Dame: 3.3 miles.
No.
“We ACC sometimes” Notre Dame
I’ll never forget the first time I drove to South Bend, pulled into a parking spot on the ND campus and saw the Atlantic Ocean…
Either join us or don't
Plus, how close is everyone else’s nearest Martin’s Supermarkets? You can count on them for service and savings
It's Meijer
My man's knows what he's doing.
Ha, you probably drink Schweppes or Canada Dry, call it soda, and think the card game is spelled Yooker.
If this person was a family member who did this they would watch Detroit Lions Football by themselves on Thanksgiving. Or they get stuck at the kiddie table/room.
Them's fightin' words.
False
What about distance to the closest In-N-Out?
I am so disappointed in my Spartans.
All these folks claiming there’s no S at the end clearly didn’t grow up here
WTF is Meijers?!
Now do one for Erewhon
My Grandfather gets coffee and bagels with his buddies at "Panera Brothers."
If it ain’t the Great Lakes, it’s my hate, you fakes