H.G. Hill Portland

At H. G. Hill we engage with our customers beyond the walls of our store: you can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

Our Engagement Guidelines will provide you a better idea on how to engage with us in social media, what you can expect from us, and where to find more information.

H. G. Hill Customer Engagement Guidelines

Thank you for joining us on our social channels. Please take a moment to read the following guidelines.

We ask you to follow these when contributing to any of our social channels.

1. Don’t do anything that breaks the law.
2. Be polite and courteous, even if you disagree. Excessive name calling, profanity, fighting words, discriminatory epithets, sexual harassment, bullying, gruesome language or the like, will not be tolerated.
3. Stay on topic. Keep the conversation relevant to the community and contribute to the dialogue. We reserve the right to remove content that is off-topic, out of context, spam, promotional or links to third party sites.
4. Keep it real. All wall postings should come from a real person and Facebook profile. Postings from fake or anonymous profiles will be deleted when discovered.
5. There is a place for customer service-related questions, complaints, concerns or ideas from customers. If you are a customer and have a customer service comment, complaint, concern or idea, we encourage you to contact our store directly to speak with our store manager. If you have a question, complaint, concern or idea that you would like to share, please note that we will always take the conversation offline to ensure that we meet and exceed your expectations.
6. We reserve the right to remove content posted to any of our social channels that violates these guidelines.


The first HG Hill Food Store was opened in downtown Nashville in 1895. The operation was very successful and began to expand additional locations to the surrounding neighborhoods. By 1906, HG Hill was the dominant grocery retailer in the Nashville market with 12 locations. It was during this time that the Hill family acquired the “Fit for a King” coffee label and coffee roasting facilities for which HG Hill would gain fame. The chain began to experiment with some innovative operational and marketing strategies, was one of the first to advertise in newspapers, pioneered the “cash & carry” concept, opened it’s own bakery, and became self supplied with new warehouse facilities. As a result, by the 1920’s HG Hill dominated the middle Tennessee market with 102 locations, long before out of state chain operations began to have a market presence. The Hill family eventually owned chain operations in Chattanooga, Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, and New Orleans and was a major player in grocery retail in the southeast with over 500 stores.
Today, after over 120 years, HG Hill Food Stores are still a familiar part of the middle Tennessee landscape, still serving the neighborhoods where they are located with friendly faces and fresh product. And today, as in the past, HG Hill is still at the forefront of grocery industry trendsetters with the return of HG Hill to the downtown marketplace. HG Hill has come full circle with the opening of Urban Market in the Nashville central business district.