Midtown Kansas City grocery store is permanently closed. ‘It’s a big loss’
One of midtown Kansas City’s only grocery stores has permanently closed as of late June.
Near the intersection of Troost Avenue and Armour Boulevard, handwritten signs proclaim “Save-A-Lot is CLOSED Permanently.”
Inside the Save-A-Lot, the overhead lights illuminated barren shelves and empty refrigerators. A banner on building advertised the newly-available real estate.
The discount grocery store operated at the Hyde Park location for at least 19 years, according to Google Maps archives.
Save-A-Lot did not respond to a request for comment. The Troost store no longer appears on the company’s website.
Health Department complaints, other closure
In March, the Kansas City Health Department temporarily shut down the store after an inspector found the business sold food kept in broken freezers.
On Monday, Asia Jones, spokesperson for the Kansas City Health Department, wrote in a statement, “The Health Department is unaware of why the store closed, and it was not a Health Department decision or action.”
The Save-A-Lot closure comes less than a year after the high-profile closure of the partially-city-funded Sun Fresh at 31st and Prospect in August 2025. In May, the United Market grocery store opened in the same building.
Jonah Johnson of midtown Kansas City said he went to the Save-A-Lot every day.
“It’s a big loss,” he said.
Johnson and three others said the store closed its doors around late May or early June. Even before, Johnson said he “knew it was going to close” because the shelves became emptier.
“It was everybody’s main grocery store around here,” Johnson said.
There are three grocery stores approximately a mile away from the former Save-A-Lot: Aldi at 39th and Prospect, Midtown Market at 39th and Main and United Market at 31st and Prospect (formerly Sun Fresh).
In addition, the Family Dollar at Linwood and Troost and Dollar General at 43rd and Troost stock some food items.
Shawn Perry of Kansas City said even when the store was open, she only bought her meat there.
“They were always low on something or didn’t have something in,” like fresh produce or meat.
A midtown resident, Perry relies on the bus.
Without the Save-A-Lot, Perry has to take the bus to Sun Fresh or Walmart, which she said has “made it hard.”
