Three Dallas-Fort Worth cities are set to score new supermarkets.

According to a release, the Kroger supermarket chain is opening three new Kroger Marketplace format stores in North Texas in three cities: Plano, Melissa, and Fort Worth.

Alas, the exact addresses are still TBA. "Exact locations/addresses will be announced in advance of the groundbreaking events later this summer," a spokesperson said.

These will be the first new-build Kroger stores in North Texas since 2019 when they opened a store in McKinney at 1801 North Lake Forest Dr.

The stores will open in 2024.

Kroger's Dallas Division president Keith Shoemaker says in a statement the three areas were chosen because of their "booming growth."

Kroger currently operates more than 100 stores in North and East Texas and more than 200 stores total throughout Texas.

Marketplace format stores are multi-department stores offering full-service grocery, pharmacy, and expanded general merchandise including outdoor living products, electronics, home goods, apparel, and toys. Marketplace stores typically range in size from 100,000 to 130,000 square feet. Hello, direct shot at H-E-B.

In 2022, Kroger opened a Fulfillment Center in South Dallas to focus solely on the growing demand for grocery delivery service. With spoke facilities since constructed in Austin, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City, the company has added the capability to serve an ever-increasing digital audience and more remote communities without the need for brick-and-mortar stores.

With Boost by Kroger, digital shoppers can get next-day delivery and same-day delivery in as little as two hours. Boost members can also save up to $1,000 a year on gas, groceries, and delivery fees.

Kroger also has plans to deploy a fleet of driverless trucks from autonomous vehicle supplier Gatik, to transport goods between an automated e-commerce warehouse in Dallas and grocery stores in the market. They're using Class 3-6 vehicles that can handle items that need to be kept refrigerated or frozen as well as ambient-temperature goods, seven days a week.

A supermarket is coming to Oak Cliff: Sprouts Farmers Market won the approval of the Dallas City Council to open a location at the northeast corner of Fort Worth Avenue and Hampton Road.

The approval came after nearly two years of negotiations, with the grocery chain offering multiple proposals to accommodate the neighborhood's exacting demands.

What the Dallas City Council actually approved at its March 8 meeting was a rezoning request, since that area is a Planned Development District, with restrictions on issues like making sure that what faces the street is a storefront and not a parking lot.

There's no street address yet but Sprouts has it on their website at the northeast corner, which is currently home to a Cost Plus Supermarket — which by the way has a parking lot in front — and a Chinese restaurant, Crown Buffet.

The store will come with extra features including a restaurant with a patio, plus landscaping and eco-friendly elements such as permeable pavement.

A motion presented by City Council member Chad West included stipulations such as:

• Shopping carts must come with an anti-theft wheel lock
• A 3,500-square-foot open space at least 50 feet wide is required within 125 feet from the property line along Fort Worth Avenue
• Any loudspeakers for a drive-thru cannot be located within 150 feet from the property line along Hampton Road and must be oriented away from residential lots within 1,000 feet
• Exterior lighting must be oriented down and onto the property they light, and away from residential properties

A spokesperson for Sprouts said there was no information yet on opening date.

The chain has been on a bit of an opening spree around Dallas-Fort Worth, most recently a Trinity Hills location in North Dallas which opened at 17795 Dallas Pkwy on February 24, and the Hillside Village location at 6465 E. Mockingbird Ln., which opened in November 2022.

This marks the second major mainstream retail addition to Oak Cliff in a week, following the news that Target has plans to open a store in the beloved Wynnewood Village neighborhood shopping center.

North Dallas is about to get a great new grocery: Sprouts Farmers Market, the Phoenix-based supermarket chain, is getting ready to open Sprouts Trinity Mills, coming to 17795 Dallas Pkwy., on the west side frontage road for the Dallas North Tollway, at the corner of Briargrove Road and a block north of Trinity Mills Road.

According to a spokesperson, the store will open the last week of February.

That address was previously Sullivan's Steakhouse, although the grocery did a complete new build. The store is just under 20,000 square feet.

Sprouts has been on an opening spree in Dallas-Fort Worth. That includes stores in Irving/Las Colinas at 7730 N. MacArthur Blvd. #150, and Grand Prairie, at 2500 S Carrier Pkwy., both of which opened in March 2022; and a store that opened in the Hillside Village shopping center at Abrams Road and Mockingbird Lane, in the former Stein Mart, in November.

There are currently 51 locations across Texas (Trinity Mills will be #52) including 28 in the DFW area.

For the Trinity Mills store, they plan to hire 80 people and are hosting a hiring fair January 17-18, in a partnership with Snagajob, the hourly hiring company.

• Tuesday, January 17: 8–11:30 am and 1–6 pm
• Wednesday, January 18: 8–11:30 am and 1–5 pm

Walk-in interviews are welcome, and will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn–Richardson, 1001 George Bush Turnpike in Richardson. Attendees can speak directly with the Sprouts’ hiring team on openings such as Front End, Bakery, Bulk, Deli, Grocery, Meat/Seafood, and Produce Vitamin.