UK: Whole Foods announces store in Cheltenham

Whole Foods Market has announced the opening of a new 27,000 square-foot (2,500 square meters) store in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK. This was the grocer’s fourth new store announcement in recent months following Giffnock scheduled to open in November 2011; and Fulham Broadway and Richmond upon Thames opening in 2013. (Picture: Whole Foods Market in Kensington, London)

The new store in Cheltenham will open in autumn 2012 just outside of Cheltenham town centre and include an outdoor seating area, a bakery, and a full service butchery counter. Whole Foods Market’s natural remedies department, Whole Body, will also feature. About 150 new full and part-time jobs will be created. 

Whole Foods Market currently runs 300 stores in USA, Canada and the UK. The five of stores in the UK are located in London - in Camden, Clapham Junction, Kensington, Soho and Stoke Newington. 44 stores are in development worldwide.

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