Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. (Nasdaq: SFM), a Phoenix-based specialty grocery chain, unveiled a new real estate strategy during an earnings call on last week, which will lead to a lot of new stores opening and some older ones closing.
Sprouts — which reported an annual revenue in 2022 of $6.4 billion, up 5% from the previous year and an earnings of $261 million, a 7% increase — announced that in 2023 it will open a total of 30 new stores across the country.
All of the new locations will be the…