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In 1969, his sons developed Boney's Market, which grew into a beloved community grocery store. By 1997, the family's unique set of small-box farmers-market grocery stores were renamed Henry's Farmers Market after their father. Sprouts Farmers Market was founded in 2002 in Chandler, Arizona by members of the Boney family. [5] [6]
Following a merger in August 2007, Wild Oats—including the Henry's Farmers Market locations—was acquired by Whole Foods Market. [4] [5] In October 2007, Whole Foods Market sold all 35 Henry's Farmers Market and Sun Harvest Market stores to a subsidiary of Los Angeles grocer Smart & Final for $166 million (~$235 million in 2023). [6]
However, the withdrawal may have also been partially due to negotiations resulting in the February 2011 acquisition of the Sprouts Farmers Market which had 9 locations in Colorado. In 2012, Apollo sold its stake in Smart & Final to Ares Management for $975 million. [13] Smart & Final went public in 2014. [14]
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Sprouts Farmers Market opens a new location that looks like this design at 2750 SW 27th Terrace in the Coconut Grove area of Miami-Dade on South Dixie Highway on Jan. 19, 2024.
As UC continued to propose a development project with "Sprouts Farmer's Market", the movement organized a Boycott Sprouts campaign. [50] [51] As of December 2014 a 1.3-acre experimental urban farm on the north side, shared ground with a quarter-acre urban gardening project and a 2.5-acre plot devoted to corn genetics research. [52]
The NDMA also hosts a weekly farmer's market from June to October outside the market building. [1] The Dublin market, completed in 2020, was designed to be more modern than the downtown location. The new market has 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m 2) of space, two-thirds of which is for the public. The market has 15 vendors, with a total capacity of 19. [3]
2006 – Acquires Albertsons stores in the Sacramento, California area, San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley and northern Nevada and converts them to Lucky and Save Mart stores in 2007. The acquisition marks the company's first foray outside of its home state of California. 2012 – Rebrands Monterey Bay Save Mart locations into Lucky stores.