Sprouts to open Venice, St. Petersburg stores, hire nearly 200 employees

Sprouts Farmers Market is opening a new store in South Sarasota County and is hiring nearly 100 people. 

The new store is at 1120 Jacaranda Blvd. in Venice and scheduled  to open Nov. 14. 

The Arizona grocer says it is one of two opening in the state that day. The other is at 3411 32nd Place S., St. Petersburg. 

Sprouts is holding a job fair Sep. 30 and Oct. 1at the Venice Community Center on Nokomis Avenue for the Venice location. 

Among the positions it is looking to fill are department managers, cashiers, courtesy clerks and receivers. 

Hiring details were not available for the St. Petersburg location. 

Sprouts has 478 stores in 24 states and employs 35,000. In Florida, it has 58 stores, 23 of them along the Gulf Coast.