{"id":399164,"date":"2025-11-23T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399164\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:12:13","slug":"kroger-plans-to-open-a-bunch-of-new-stores-in-the-houston-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399164\/","title":{"rendered":"Kroger plans to &#8216;open a bunch&#8217; of new stores in the Houston area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 After taking a seven-year break from opening new stores in the Houston area, The Kroger Co. intends to &#8220;open a bunch&#8221; here in the near future, the grocery giant&#8217;s Texas leader says.<\/p>\n<p>However, the nation\u2019s largest traditional operator of grocery stores has been closing locations in Houston and nationwide recently. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/08\/04\/kroger-closing-more-houston-area-stores.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Two stores in Spring Branch and Hedwig Village closed<\/a>\u00a0in September, the company&#8217;s third and fourth Houston-area closures of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2014 After taking a seven-year break from opening new stores in the Houston area, The Kroger Co.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-399164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115599189596194743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}