A new Whole Foods Market store will soon be serving grocery shoppers from southern Maine, and could also serve a boost to southern Maine real estate.
But the 42,000-square-foot supermarket, expected to open in June, is across the Piscataqua River from Maine, where a Portland store is the lone Whole Foods outpost.
The Portsmouth, N.H., store will be the third Whole Foods has launched in that state since 2014.
The upscale organic and natural foods retailer, acquired by Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) in 2017 for $13.7 billion, now has over 530 stores in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. For the past two years even during the pandemic Whole Foods has been adding stores at a rate of more than one a month.