As part of the extensive renovation, the 68,415-square-foot store has added a new cheese shop, beverage center, café seating area and made-to-order sandwich center. The store’s nutrition and natural-foods departments have been expanded, and the bakery now includes an open-air artisan-style bread case and self-serve bread slicer. The seafood department now features a lobster tank and a greater selection, Kroger officials said in a release.
WLW-AM radio personality Jim Scott — who has served as a Kroger spokesman for 31 years — and Riverside Mayor Bill Flaute are scheduled to participate in a ribbon-cutting at 8 a.m. Friday. Kroger will make a donation of $1,000 to Fisher Nightingale Houses as part of the grand re-opening.
Prior to a ribbon-cutting, the first 300 customers through the door starting at 7 a.m. Friday will receive a $10 Kroger gift card, and other giveaways are planned for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Kroger officials said.
Throughout the weekend, customers can register to win a pass for a Penguin Encounter for four from the Newport Aquarium, passes to the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery and four tickets to the May 16 performance of an Evening with Rodgers and Hammerstein at the new Rose Music Center at the Heights in Huber Heights, and four tickets to “Guitar Heroes” on July 10, courtesy of the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance. Mascots from the Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals and Dayton Dragons will make appearances.
Kroger has operated a store in the Huber Heights area since 1961, and the store relocated to its current location on the Dayton-Huber Heights border in 2001, company officials said.
Kroger officials said in late 2014 they are planning as much as $107 million in investments across the company’s Cincinnati/Dayton Division during 2015, including an extensive renovation and the addition of a fuel center at the company’s store on Wilmington Pike in Sugarcreek Twp. The company also has submitted plans to build a Marketplace store in the Cornerstone of Centerville development.
Kroger operates 109 stores in the Cincinnati/Dayton Division employing more than 20,000 people, according to the Cincinnati-based company.
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