Specialty grocery chain to open new stores, create hundreds of jobs

Sprouts Farmers Market expands in Clearwater and Naples.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 10:18 a.m. October 24, 2018
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Sprouts Farmers Market is coming to Clearwater and Naples in early 2019. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Littletung
Sprouts Farmers Market is coming to Clearwater and Naples in early 2019. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Littletung
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Sprouts Farmers Market, a fast-growing chain of specialty grocery stores, plans to open seven new stores in the first quarter of 2019, including locations in Clearwater and Naples.

According to a press release, Phoenix-based Sprouts — which has expanded to 300 stores in 19 states since it was founded in 2002 — will open a total of 30 new stores in 2019.

 

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