Twin Cities’ Seventh Hy-Vee Store Opens In Cottage Grove On Tuesday

One glance into the new Hy-Vee store that opens Tuesday in Cottage Grove reveals where supermarkets are headed. A shrinking center store yields space to oodles of grab-and-go choices — heat-and-serve meals, grab-to-grill and fully cooked entrees — all to tempt shoppers on the run.

"We're expanding grab and go even more," said Hy-Vee's Chairman and Chief Executive Randy Edeker, as he surveyed the new store on Monday. "I just got a new lifestyle report on millennials and it's how they're shopping. We change with them."

The Cottage Grove store is the Des Moines-based supermarket chain's 245th store and its seventh in the Twin Cities since entering the metro area in 2015.

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