Whole Foods Market expanding Daily Shop store concept — here’s where and when

Whole Foods’s Daily Shop made its debut in fall 2024, on the Upper East Side of New York City.

Whole Foods Market is doubling down on its smaller format store concept designed for dense, urban areas. 

The natural and organic food grocer will open two Daily Shop locations in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The first, a 10,000-sq.-ft. store in the East Village’s StuyTown development, will open May 14. 

The second location, an 8,500-sq.-ft. store in Hell’s Kitchen, will open on June 4. The product assortment at both stores includes more than 400 local items from Northeast-based suppliers. Additionally, the StuyTown store will include a Juice & Java venue, offering coffee, tea, juices, smoothies, sandwiches and desserts.

Whole Foods opened its first Daily Shop in September 2024, in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The new format is about a quarter to half the footprint of an average 40,000-sq.-ft. Whole Foods store, allowing the company to expand in dense metropolitan areas.

“In bustling hubs like Manhattan where proximity matters, these stores will bring Whole Foods Market closer to existing customers, while extending the company’s reach to others in surrounding neighborhoods,” the company stated in a 2023 press release announcing the new format.