Sprouts Farmers Market Talks Southeast Expansion Plan
UNITED STATES – After months of speculation, Sprouts Farmers Market has addressed its plans for expansion in the Southeast United States.
The specialty grocery retailer has plans to grow to 1,200 stores in the next 10 years, with many of those locations in the Southeast.
In an interview with the Birmingham Business Journal (BBJ), Donna Egan, Director of Corporate Communications for Sprouts, said that the company has ambitions growth plans.
Egan went on to say that Atlanta, which currently has five Sprouts stores, will serve as the chain’s Southeastern hub.
Sprouts currently has plans to open a distribution center in Atlanta within the next two years, which will serve as the jumping off point for a rapidly-growing Southeastern footprint.
Egan told BBJ that the Sprouts concept is doing surprisingly well in diverse markets.
“We also had tremendous success in markets that are not necessarily the healthiest,” she added. “We really do appeal to a broad audience. We go after the average grocery shopper. Healthy eating shouldn’t be limited to the affluent.”
Though there was no mention of which markets Sprouts may enter next, Egan reaffirmed the company’s commitment to the Southeast and says that expansion should come soon.
