Meijer expands curbside program to 4 area stores

Meijer will expand its new online ordering and curbside service to four Dayton-area stores by early next year, company officials announced Thursday.

The retailer launched its “Meijer Curbside” shopping service in April at a store in Grand Rapids, Mich., where the company is headquartered. On Thursday, Meijer announced that it is expanding the service to eight additional stores in Michigan and Ohio.

Meijer Curbside allows customers to shop online and enjoy the convenience of picking up their groceries curbside without leaving their vehicles, officials said.

Meijer Curbside will be offered at Meijer stores in the Dayton-Springfield region at the Kettering, Miami Twp., Englewood and Beavercreek locations by early next year.

In May, Meijer submitted plans to Huber Heights city officials to make changes in the store's parking lot to accommodate the curbside service, which it planned to test-market here.

Meijer Curbside began in April at the Grand Rapids store as a pilot program that grew each week with more than 75 percent of weekly orders now coming from repeat customers, officials said. The program enlists 15 specially-trained team members to hand select every item in a customer’s order and shop according to special instructions and personal preferences.

Customers shop for roughly 60,000 of the most commonly shopped grocery and general merchandise items and place orders online at Meijer.com/Curbside. Then customers select a preferred pick-up time between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. daily.

For orders of one to 12 items, customers can pick them up in as little as one hour. For orders of 13 or more items, customers can schedule pickup in about three hours. Orders can be placed up to three days in advance.

The program will be duplicated at the new stores where Meijer Curbside will be offered, including waiving the service fee for 30 days. Following the initial phase, the service will cost $4.95 per order.

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