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Sprouts makes headway in Florida’s Publix-dominated market

Arizona natural food grocer Sprouts Farmers Market is carving out a niche for itself in the state — even in the shadow of Publix, the 10,000-pound elephant.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. January 24, 2024
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Sprouts Farmers Market opened its Port Charlotte store Jan. 12.
Sprouts Farmers Market opened its Port Charlotte store Jan. 12.
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Around 6:45 a.m. Jan. 12, about 25 employees and 445 customers stood outside the new Sprouts Farmers Market in Port Charlotte, preparing to cut the ribbon to commemorate the store’s opening.

It was what is quickly becoming a familiar scene, a reflection of how the Phoenix, Arizona, grocery store chain is getting good at store openings thanks to so much practice. Just one week later, on Jan. 19, the process would be repeated. This time in Miami.

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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