Sprouts Farmers Market
It's an extremely attractive store, and one of my favorite things about Sprouts is that they keep all of the fixtures low so that there are sightlines across the whole store. Here we're looking out across the sales floor from the main entrance/exit on the left side of the storefront. Deli/bakery, meat, and seafood line the left side with produce and bulk taking up the middle of the sales floor, and dairy/frozen/grocery in the back right corner and HABA in the front right corner.
I'd forgotten that I really do like Sprouts and would be very happy to see more Sprouts sprouting up in New Jersey. Here we can see the service departments lining the left side wall. Very nice decor with the metal and wood! I do like this decor package for sure, but in the last few years Sprouts has refined it a bit and we'll see shortly another Sprouts that has a newer variation on the same decor package that's much nicer.
Here's meat and produce in the back. The skylights are a nice touch, too.
Lots to see across the middle of the store, with bulk foods before we get to the service departments back on the other side wall.
I'm remembering that Sprouts had some pretty nice pricing on produce, too. Check out those prices in the front -- cucumbers and green peppers 2/$1, Brussels sprouts $1.88/lb, pomegranates 2/5. Those are solid and more in the range of what I'd pay at Food Bazaar than ShopRite or ACME.
Dairy and frozen runs around the outside wall of this area, with a few grocery aisles in front. Sprouts has clearly perfected the formula of how much general grocery to have compared to how much perishable merchandise.
And here we're looking across frozen up to HABA in the front corner.
Sprouts also has its own storebrand, which helps a lot with the pricing concerns I was discussing at MOM's.
And here in the middle is bulk foods and HABA. I feel like a broken record, fairly certain I've said that too many times in this post.
So here in the front corner, we have pink helicopters and a family of sasquatch. Better?
Opened: 2019
Previous Tenants: part of Burlington
Location: 227 NJ-73, Marlton, NJ
Photographed: January 2021
Picture this: it's 3:30 on a Friday afternoon. You want to be home for dinner at 5:30, and you live two hours away, but you drive by a really cool supermarket. Naturally, you go, right? Well, I did, anyway. I remembered Sprouts from an approximately 2013 visit to the Colorado Boulevard location out in Denver (at the time my grandmother lived a few blocks away) which does not appear to be all that exciting from the outside but inside we can tell that it was built as a Marina Safeway since the arched ceiling is still exposed. Obviously, I regret not taking pictures, but even 2013 Zachary understood that there was something special there. Anyhow, I promptly forgot about Sprouts Farmers Markets for roughly 10 years until I was driving through Marlton and found that this store had opened up. It was constructed in part of the Burlington Coat Factory store, which had been downsized at the time, and the roughly 34,000 square foot space was built out for Sprouts' first New Jersey location.
Anyway, that wraps up Sprouts, which was definitely a fun stop. It's our second-to-last day of New Jersey, so don't forget to check out today's other post here, and tomorrow, we wrap up the state with a very nice small independent store to the south of here on The Independent Edition!
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