Department Stores

Whole Foods Plans Store Inside Sears

Location will be first for Albany, N.Y. area

Published

12 years ago

May 4, 2012

VMSD Staff

Whole Foods Markets (Austin, Texas) will open its first store in the Albany, N.Y., area inside a Sears Holdings Corp. (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) store at Colonie Center, reports The Business Review.

The 32,000-square-foot, ground-floor store is expected to open in late 2013 or early 2014 and will tale over a portion of the Sears department store. The retailers have a similar arrangement at a store in Greensboro, N.C.

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