Grocery Chain Growing. (Up Front).WHOLE Foods Market Inc. is expanding rapidly on the Westside Adj. 1. westside - of the western part of a city; "he lives in upper westside Manhattan" west - situated in or facing or moving toward the west with three new markets opening this year. The Texas-based chain plans to open a new store at the corner of Third Street and Fairfax Avenue Fairfax Avenue is a street on north central Los Angeles, California. It runs from La Cienega Boulevard (which separates the Westside from the central part of the city) with Culver City at its southern end to Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood on its northern end. across the way from the Farmers Market in late March or early April. The opening will coincide with the debut of the new Grove at Farmers Market shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . The Whole Foods Market will be housed inside an old Albertson's supermarket that closed several months ago. "Our demographic study shows that this could be our highest volume store because of the density of residents in the area and the higher level of education," said Elizabeth Carovillano, a company spokeswoman. A second Whole Foods is slated to open in mid-to-late summer at the corner of Weyburn and Gayley avenues on what is currently a Mann's cineplex theater in Westwood. A third store is being built from the 30,000-square-foot structure that used to house Madame Wu's Garden Restaurant at 2201 Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. . That market opens sometime in September. All three will have pizza ovens, coffee roasters, aging rooms for meat and bulk seafood seafood Edible aquatic animals excluding mammals, but including both freshwater and ocean creatures. Seafood includes bony and cartilaginous fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, edible jellyfish, sea turtles, frogs, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. as well as the usual selection of health foods and organic produce. |
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