{"id":8662,"date":"2017-01-20T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=8662"},"modified":"2017-01-20T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:17:25","slug":"store-growth-projections-for-the-naturalorganic-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/01\/store-growth-projections-for-the-naturalorganic-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"Store Growth Projections for the Natural\/Organic Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy, fresh, local \u2013 three words that have yet to lose their drawing power in the grocery, restaurant and foodservice industries. And the natural\/organic grocery chains are doubling down on the idea that demand will continue to rise over the next 12 months. Here, then, are <strong>Chain Store Guide\u2019s <\/strong>projections for new store openings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whole Foods <\/strong>will have its 500<sup>th<\/sup> store up and running by this time next year, but <strong>Trader Joe\u2019s<\/strong> is taking a more deliberate approach to openings in 2017. We project<strong> Sprouts <\/strong>will end the year with the greatest gain in net units within this segment (35) while upstarts <strong>Fresh Thyme<\/strong> and <strong>Lucky\u2019s Market<\/strong> will put their <strong>Meijer <\/strong>and <strong>Kroger <\/strong>money to work to grow their footprint in the neighborhood of 40% in the next 12 months. <strong>The Fresh Market <\/strong>looks to bounce back this year with a more geographically-concentrated approach to business that should return its store count to pre\u20132015-acquisition numbers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/organicchart2017.jpg\" alt=\"organic\" width=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chain Store Guide\u2019s<\/strong> Database of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-87-supermarket-grocery-retailers-convenience-store-leads.aspx\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Supermarket, Grocery &amp; Convenience Store Chains<\/span><\/a> contains listings and contact information for more than 300 buyers and decision makers at these natural\/organic supermarket chains and 18,000+ personnel across the industry. We also provide customized store-location and proximity-analysis reports for these chains (and thousands of others) to clients and customers each day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/t-contact.aspx\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Contact us<\/span><\/a> to find out how we can assist your organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy, fresh, local \u2013 three words that have yet to lose their drawing power in the grocery, restaurant and foodservice industries. And the natural\/organic grocery chains are doubling down on the idea that demand will continue to rise over the next 12 months. Here, then, are Chain Store Guide\u2019s projections for new store openings. Whole&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/01\/store-growth-projections-for-the-naturalorganic-segment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Store Growth Projections for the Natural\/Organic Segment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-8662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grocery-convenience","tag-csg-exclusive","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}