Dillons is a regional grocery supermarket chain based in Hutchinson, Kansas, and is a division of Kroger.
Other banners under the Dillon Stores Division include Gerbes in Missouri and Baker's in Omaha, Nebraska.
Dillons operates grocery stores throughout Kansas with major influences in and around Wichita, Topeka, Manhattan, and Lawrence.
[1] In 1890, John S. Dillon opened a general store in Sterling, Kansas, and learned that allowing customers to charge then pay later and delivering groceries to their homes was a financial and manpower strain on his business.
The concept, similar to Kroger's Fred Meyer chain, is 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2) of grocery and general merchandise.