Whole Foods Market expanding Daily Shop store concept — here’s where and when
Whole Foods Market is doubling down on its smaller format store concept designed for dense, urban areas.
The natural and organic food grocer will open two Daily Shop locations in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The first, a 10,000-sq.-ft. store in the East Village’s StuyTown development, will open May 14.
The second location, an 8,500-sq.-ft. store in Hell’s Kitchen, will open on June 4. The product assortment at both stores includes more than 400 local items from Northeast-based suppliers. Additionally, the StuyTown store will include a Juice & Java venue, offering coffee, tea, juices, smoothies, sandwiches and desserts.
Whole Foods opened its first Daily Shop in September 2024, in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The new format is about a quarter to half the footprint of an average 40,000-sq.-ft. Whole Foods store, allowing the company to expand in dense metropolitan areas.
“In bustling hubs like Manhattan where proximity matters, these stores will bring Whole Foods Market closer to existing customers, while extending the company’s reach to others in surrounding neighborhoods,” the company stated in a 2023 press release announcing the new format.
At the StuyTown opening, Whole Foods Market will present Harlem-based supplier Uncle Waithley’s with a low-interest loan through the grocer’s Local Producer Loan Program to help grow their operations and support expansion to more Whole Foods Market locations. Through the program, Whole Foods Market lends money to small-scale, local or emerging producers to help them grow their businesses. To date, the retailer has provided over 408 loans, representing roughly $34 million in capital for recipients.
As part of its ongoing commitment to supporting local communities, Whole Foods Market is contributing in-kind product to support the work of The Bowery Mission and New York Common Pantry. The company will also donate to area organizations Nazareth Housing and Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project.
Part of Amazon’s Worldwide Grocery Stores, Whole Foods Market serves customers in more than 530 stores across the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
