Kroger has recently signed a lease to take over most of the former Walmart at Perimeter Village in Dunwoody, according to news reports.
Tomorrow’s News Today was the first to report that the Cincinnati-based grocer is expected to open one of its large-format Marketplace stores in place of the former Walmart, which closed last July.
Kroger will occupy a 116,824 square-foot space, about 64 percent of the former 183,500 square-foot Walmart, the news outlet reported.
Kimco Realty, the owner of Perimeter Village, has not yet made a formal announcement about the lease on its website or in other company communications.
On Kimco’s website, the space where Kroger would be leasing is still listed as available. The website says the center has about 1,800 parking spaces.
Last July, the Walmart Supercenter in in the center closed, citing underperforming sales, along with another location in Marietta.
“This decision was not made lightly and was reached only after a careful and thoughtful review process,” Walmart said in a statement about the closing. “We have nearly 5,000 stores across the U.S. and unfortunately, some do not meet our financial expectations. While our underlying business is strong, this store hasn’t performed as well as we hoped.”
Many regular shoppers, however, believed that the real reason behind the store’s closing was a lack of customer service and frequent incidents of shoplifting and other low-level crimes.
Statistics pulled from Dunwoody Police call records from January 2023 to May 2024 reveal that authorities were called an average of twice a day for mostly low-level criminal activities, like shoplifting, disorderly conduct, solicitation, panhandling, and civil disputes.
Authorities say that reports of criminal activity at the Ashford Dunwoody location was second only to incidents at Perimeter Mall.
Kroger closed 60 unprofitable stores nationwide within the last year, including four in metro Atlanta – Buford Highway in Brookhaven, Morosgo Way in Atlanta, Douglas Road in Alpharetta, and Memorial Drive in Decatur.
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