Organic grocer Sprouts’ plans for Florida locations seem to have wilted.
Widely reported to be scouting sites throughout Florida in 2013, Phoenix-based Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. (Nasdaq: SFM) has planned four stores in metro Atlanta, two of which have recently opened.
But real estate sources in Tampa and Jacksonville say the specialty grocer is no longer actively looking in Florida, and that they’ve been told Sprouts will wait to see how those stores in Atlanta perform before they will open stores elsewhere in the Southeast.
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