5 Meijer Mistakes Indiana Shoppers Keep Making Every Week

Meijer now runs 44 stores across Indiana, and every one operates under rules that have shifted more than once since 2020.

Not everyone caught the change.

These are the Meijer habits still running on rules that don’t exist anymore.

1. Paying for Delivery

Meijer will bring a full cart of groceries to an Indiana doorstep, and it charges $9.95 a trip to do it.

Many shoppers pay that fee out of pure habit. But if they hop in their car to pick up their groceries instead, they might not have to pay a dime.

Meijer dropped the pickup service fee entirely on orders over $50, no membership required, no fine print to hunt down.

Free.

Pickup runs from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, so a shopper who orders online at lunch can swing by after work and load the trunk themselves.

That $9.95 fee stays flat whether the cart holds ten items or eighty, so the math can make sense if you have a big grocery list.

But if you skip the drive to Meijer entirely and pay for delivery every single week, and that habit adds up to hundreds of dollars a year for the exact same groceries.

2. Checking Sunday for New Deals

Meijer ran its weekly sale on a Sunday-to-Saturday clock for decades, the same pattern many Midwest grocers followed.

Not anymore.

Meijer switched its weekly ad to a Wednesday-through-Tuesday run starting in September 2025.

A Meijer spokesperson said the change frees up staff to restock and reprice midweek, when stores see fewer shoppers, instead of scrambling through the weekend rush.

A shopper who still treats Sunday morning as ad day is looking at Tuesday’s leftovers.

Wednesday is the new payoff, and the deals that mattered a week ago are already gone by then.

3. Skipping the mPerks Clip

Meijer’s mPerks members saved more than $100 million in the six months before the company overhauled the loyalty program in January 2023, savings built almost entirely from coupons clipped inside the app before checkout, not typed in at the register.

Not automatic.

A shopper who shops first and opens mPerks at the register only gets a phone number credited, never the app’s full clip-first savings, so they walk out having missed the same total behind that $100 million figure.

Meijer’s own numbers put serious money behind that habit, and every week some of it goes unclaimed.

4. Letting mPerks Points Expire

Meijer pays a shopper back in points for every dollar spent, on top of whatever coupons a shopper clipped that week.

Meijer sets a clock on every point earned, the same as it does on a clipped coupon.

Meijer’s January 2023 mPerks overhaul stretched that clock from 45 days to 90, which sounds generous until a shopper only checks the rewards tab around the holidays.

Gone.

Three months passes fast between a busy fall and a slow winter.

Redeemed points cover more than the grocery total too, since a shopper can put them toward a fill-up at many Meijer Express gas stations instead.

A shopper who earns points every week but never opens the rewards tab is letting those dollars reset to zero on a clock they never set.

5. Planning a Midnight Run

Meijer used to be the store Indiana could count on at any hour, open around the clock at many locations.

That ended in 2020.

Meijer cut back to roughly 6 a.m. to midnight during the pandemic, and the overnight hours never came back, even into 2026.

Friday nights are when the gap shows up hardest for Meijer’s Indiana shoppers: High school football wraps up, dinner runs long, and the week’s grocery list is still sitting untouched.

A shopper in Fort Wayne or Evansville who treats that Friday-night stop as the weekly restock run pulls into the lot at 11:45, expecting the usual.

Fifteen minutes isn’t enough time to fill a cart before the doors lock at midnight.

Meijer's Growing Indiana Footprint

Meijer didn't cross into Indiana until April 1994, when the first store opened in Mishawaka.

That was three decades ago.

Mishawaka sits just east of South Bend, in the part of the state closest to Michigan, which made it a natural first crossing point.

Meijer opened its 44th Indiana store in Brownsburg this May, a 159,000-square-foot supercenter with its own gas station next door.

Meijer now operates across six states in total, and Pennsylvania is next on the company's expansion map after Indiana.

The 44th Indiana store won't be the last one built in the state, with the supercenter format continuing to spread into communities that never had a Meijer before.

The Store That Started It All

Meijer traces back to 1934, when Hendrik Meijer opened a single grocery store in Greenville, Michigan, during the Depression.

His son Fred had bigger plans.

In 1962, the two of them opened Thrifty Acres in Grand Rapids, a single building that mixed groceries with clothes, hardware, and general merchandise under one roof.

That store is often cited as one of the country's first hypermarkets, years before the supercenter format spread nationwide.

Meijer stayed privately held the whole way through, still run by the founding family instead of Wall Street.

Family owned.

Hank and Doug Meijer, Hendrik's own grandsons, serve as the company's co-chairmen today, more than ninety years after their grandfather opened that first Greenville store.