Headlines

Grocery Updates: Store Openings

The Fresh Market, T&T, Whole Foods set expansions

Published

3 weeks ago

April 28, 2025

VMSD Staff

Grocery Updates: Store Openings — A rendering of the T&T Supermarket planned for Irvine, Calif. Image: Courtesy of T&T Supermarket

A rendering of the T&T Supermarket planned for Irvine, Calif. Image: Courtesy of T&T Supermarket

A trio of supermarket chains have announced the following growth plans:

The Fresh Market is opening stores in three states. The new locales, in Wethersfield, Conn., Jensen Beach, Fla., and Mount Pleasant, S.C., give the regional grocer a total of 172 outlets. Overall, The Fresh Market has opened 12 new storefronts over the last six months.

T&T Supermarket (Richmond, B.C.) plans a store in Irvine, Calif., by winter 2026. That marks the Canadian chain’s fifth planned store in the U.S. (The others are in San Francisco, San Jose, Calif., and Bellevue and Lynnwood, Wash.) A unit of Loblaw Cos. Ltd., T&T’s Canadian fleet consists of 38 stores.

Whole Foods (Austin, Texas) will take the wraps off two more smaller-format Market Daily Shops in New York. The first location, a 10,000-square-foot store at 409 E. 14th St. in the East Village’s StuyTown development, will open May 14, while the second, an 8500-square-foot store located at 301 W. 50th St, in Hell’s Kitchen, will debut June 4. (The city’s first Daily Shop opened last September in the Lenox Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side.) Whole Foods, which operates 520-plus markets under its main brand, became a unit of Amazon Inc. in 2017.

VMSD Staff

Drawing on more than 125 years of history serving the retail design market, VMSD magazine provides retail professionals with the most up-to-date, innovative retail design ideas and industry news through its industry-leading magazine, website, social media channels and bulletins.

click to Comment(Comment)

Up Next

Hudson’s Bay Closing Final Stores

Don't Miss

Jack in the Box Axing Up to 200 Locales

MasterClass: ‘Re-Sparkling’ Retail: Using Store Design to Build Trust, Faith and Brand Loyalty

HOW CAN WE EMPOWER and inspire senior leaders to see design as an investment for future retail growth? This session, led by retail design expert Ian Johnston from Quinine Design, explores how physical stores remain unmatched in the ability to build trust, faith, and loyalty with your customers, ultimately driving shareholder value.

Presented by:
Ian Johnston
Founder and Creative Director, Quinine Design