PHOENIX, AZ - Sprouts Farmers Market is looking to hire upwards of 2,500 employees as it continues its fast-paced growth spurt, having held events across the country earlier this week.

“As the fastest growing retailer in America, we have to get some good quality people to continue to grow our stores,” Jaysen Pauley, Store Manager for a Kansas City Sprouts, told KMBS-TV.

As we previously reported, the retailer announced its intent to add 11 new stores in the second quarter of this year alone, ending this month, and announced last year that it was looking to grow to 1,200 stores in the next decade.

“Two years ago this was the only Sprouts in Kansas City, and we’re opening our seventh location tomorrow,” Pauley said. “We need good people.”

As to what has helped foster that growth, Pauley said, “Customers have loved our message, love what we do, and they’re excited to be a part of it.”

Sprouts began with one store in Arizona in 2002, according to its website, and has since grown to a chain of more than 200, already employing about 22,000 people. With plans to multiply that six times over, we'll keep our ear to the ground for more about its team growing by leaps and bounds as well. Keep checking in as we continue to report on this and other chains in the retail market.

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