CINCINNATI — Kroger’s fast-growing Ruler Foods discount format will open a new store in Champaign, Ill., next spring, a developer said.
Richard Spinell, principal of Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based Mid-America Asset Management, said the retailer has signed a lease for 20,437 square feet at Champaign Town Center and would open a Ruler Foods discount grocery store in there in March.
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This will be the first Ruler Foods store in Champaign, and marks Kroger Co.’s return to the market after 30 years, local reports said.
Ruler Foods is a division of Kroger’s Indiana-based JayC Food Stores division. It recently opened its first Ohio store in Lima, and also operates stores in Indiana and Kentucky.
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