Omni Superstore

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Omni Superstore was Dominick’s Finer Foods’ warehouse-style, price-driven answer to the Chicago grocery wars of the late 1980s. The first store opened in April 1987 at Lake View Plaza in Orland Park, Illinois, and the banner was managed from Dominick’s Northlake, Illinois headquarters. Its mission: bring Cub Foods-style discount shopping to Chicagoland, but with a little more spectacle in the cart.

The Omni formula mixed grocery, pharmacy and general merchandise in enormous stores, typically with big-box scale and a self-service, low-price posture. Shoppers encountered bulk and family-pack merchandise alongside bakery, deli, seafood, produce, floral, photo and other departments. Orange industrial shelving did not exactly whisper refinement, but it certainly had opinions.

Dominick’s expanded the format around metropolitan Chicago and into northwest Indiana, including a 1991 Schererville location. By the late 1990s, however, the parent company concluded that Omni’s results lagged its more upscale Dominick’s Fresh Store format. In October 1997, Dominick’s announced the conversion of its 17 Omni stores; the remodeling program continued into 1998, when most former Omni units had been refitted as Dominick’s Fresh Stores.

Our Omni Superstore collection celebrates the giant carts, warehouse aisles and gloriously practical discount-grocery energy of a Chicagoland original—proof that sometimes “lower prices overall” needed a very large building to say it.