The company has hired about 100 full-time and part-time employees to operate the new location. We're very happy with the Minnesota market.' Sherrell said he doubts the company will fulfill his original goal of 12 Twin Cities stores by 2020, but he added, 'We still think this is a 12- to 15-store market. The Prospect Park location will be the company's 71st store.

Special pricing offered at the Minneapolis location will also be honored at the six other Twin Cities locations. The event continues through Saturday with live music, kids' activities, food sampling and beer tastings. Wednesday and will include a free bag of groceries to the first 250 customers 18 or older. 'They want a store that you can navigate easily with one look and get in and out quickly.' 'We're seeing that virtually all lifestyles are time-starved these days,' said Mark Doiron, chief merchandising officer at Fresh Thyme. All those stores are about half the size of a typical Cub or Hy-Vee and will be built as part of a mixed-use development that includes housing. Aldi will open a new Minneapolis store at 26th and Lyndale and one in Chanhassen, both next year. Trader Joe's is scheduled to open a new store on Washington Avenue in downtown Minneapolis this summer. That concept of grocery stores in mixed-use developments is going to become common in the region in the next year.Ĭub Foods is testing its first urban concept store at 46th and Hiawatha, set for next year. Hy-Vee CEO Randy Edeker announced last year that the company put a hold on construction of new locations in the Twin Cities as it rethinks sizing of its stores, which are around 90,000 square feet.īoth Fresh Thyme and Trader Joe's have stores that are part of apartment complexes in St. The new Fresh Thyme, about 29,000 square feet, is well-positioned at a time when retail grocers are downsizing their new stores. It specializes in an extensive produce selection, as well as meat, deli, bulk foods, dairy, frozen foods and health supplements. Louis Park, Vadnais Heights and Waite Park. Since then, the supermarket has added locations in Apple Valley, Plymouth, Savage, St. There are 100 more underground spots in a garage that also has a 'cartilator,' an escalator for shopping carts.Ĭhicago-based Fresh Thyme entered the Twin Cities market in 2015 in Bloomington. What's unusual for a project in such a densely populated area is the abundance of parking. It's the first supermarket in the neighborhood, and it includes a liquor store. is part of The Link, a mixed-use development that includes 336 apartments in a 13-story tower above the store.

'It fits everything we're about - fun and funky, New Age and health.' 'It's one of the coolest projects we've ever done,' Chris Sherrell, chief executive of Fresh Thyme, said as he checked out the store Tuesday. From organic local produce and quality meat to body care products scented with real-simple ingredients, we stock our store straight from the source-so you get all the flavor and freshness at a naturally lower price. Including this store, Fresh Thyme Farmers Market now runs 1 location in Greenfield, Wisconsin.īrowse this page for the entire index of all Fresh Thyme Farmers Market branches near Greenfield.Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, riding a wave of interest in smaller-size grocery stores, will open its seventh location in the Twin Cities in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Specialties: At Fresh Thyme Market, we make it easy to get real about better living, with real-healthy solutions and real-affordable prices. Fresh Thyme Farmers Market Locations Nearby Greenfield, WI John the Evangelist School, Dan Jansen Park, 84South Retail, Layton Avenue Baptist Church and Armenian Orthodox Church. In the neighbourhood you might visit Ascension Wisconsin Hospital - Greenfield, Towering Woods Nature Area, Spring Mall, Martin Luther High School, St. If you are arriving by bus, you will be dropped off at Layton & 84Th Street and Layton & Supreme. By carġ minute drive time from West Layton Avenue, Exit 5A-B of I-43, South 84th Street and Hawn Run a 5 minute drive from Airport Freeway, Exit 3 of I-894 or West Forest Home Avenue (Wi-24) or a 12 minute drive time from Rock Freeway (US-45) or South 108th Street (Wi-100).įor route finder devices please enter 8680 West Sura Lane, Greenfield, WI 53228 as your destination. Getting Here - West Sura Lane, Greenfieldįresh Thyme Farmers Market is easily accessible near the intersection of Hawk Run and West Sura Lane, in Greenfield, Wisconsin.

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