Kroger

Specialties

Our grocery store offers every day and premier products, gourmet delectables, healthy choices, and lifestyle shopping. It has been said that we eat with our eyes before we ever take a bite. You’ll have such a sensory-​rich experience at Hiller’s — how good it will feel for shopping to be enjoyable and even fun!

The company was created in 1941 by Sidney Hiller with a commitment to quality, selection, and value. Now, led by Jim Hiller, Hiller’s Markets is Michigan’s home for discerning shoppers. We listen to shoppers, and we obtain items that you request, no matter how arcane, rare, or unusual.

Hiller’s embodies Jim’s passion for food, for wine, and for excellence. The Hiller name is known for quality, variety, great taste, and unparalleled customer service.

History

Established in 1941.

The company was created in 1941 by Sidney Hiller with a commitment to quality, selection, and value. Now, led by Jim Hiller, Hiller’s Markets is Michigan’s home for discerning shoppers. We listen to shoppers, and we obtain items that you request, no matter how arcane, rare, or unusual.

Meet the Business Owner

Jim H.

Business Owner

I am a sailor. There are old sailing sayings in these old parables of the sea. One of the parables is, «One hand for the ship and one hand for yourself.» Guys that worked on ships had a lot to do. When they stood and worked, they used both hands to pull in sails; they would fall over and drown. If they only hung on, nothing would get done on the ship.

I was sailing on a rough day and I was thinking about that. The sea is a great metaphor for life. In business in Michigan, what is really needed is one hand for the ship and one hand for ourselves. We have to see the value, to all of us who live here, to keep one hand for the ship.

Here the hand for Michigan requires us to work. But we have to focus, like very few other places do, more so here than elsewhere. Our ship of Michigan needs that daily focus.

That parable became an idea, through the reach we have at Hiller’s, that we would look for companies based in Michigan and seek out people who, for one reason or another, chose to go in