While Whole Foods Market has focused on the debut of its new small-format concept, Daily Shop, the Amazon-owned grocery company has also continued to open full-sized locations.
This week, the specialty grocer opened three new stores along the East Coast. On Tuesday, Whole Foods opened a store in Boynton Beach, Florida, that spans more than 42,000 square feet and another in Nashua, New Hampshire. On Thursday, the grocer opened a location in Stamford, Connecticut. Both New England stores span over 44,000 square feet.
Like all Whole Foods stores, the three newly opened locations lean into unique local offerings. The Boynton Beach store’s full-service seafood counter is stocked with local options like tilefish from Greg Abrams Seafood, Gulf shrimp and Key West pink shrimp from Cox Seafood, and spiny lobsters from Key’s Fisheries. Meanwhile, the Nashua and Stamford stores offer craft beers from more than 30 local New England-based breweries.
Since debuting Daily Shop in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood in September, Whole Foods has announced the opening of five traditional stores. In October, the grocer opened two storefronts: a new 42,000-plus square-foot store in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and a more than 50,000-square-foot store in Phoenix that’s a relocation of the existing store in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Currently, Whole Foods operates more than 520 locations in the U.S.
