Food Retailing / Supermarkets

Whole Foods Heading to Harlem

Two stores slated for New York by 2015

Published

12 years ago

October 17, 2012

VMSD Staff

High-end grocery chain Whole Foods (Austin, Texas) announced it’s building a grocery store in New York’s Harlem neighborhood, on 125th Street. The main shopping avenue already boasts an H&M and Old Navy, with Whole Foods becoming the first major grocery store there, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The chain also plans to open a location on the Upper East Side. Both locations will mark the eighth and ninth Manhattan locations for the chain, which recently opened a store on 57th Street. The Upper East Side store will open in early 2014, while the Harlem store will open in the summer of 2015, company officials told WSJ.

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