The Fresh Market is a chain of gourmet supermarkets based in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Fresh Market was founded by Ray and Beverly Berry on March 8, 1982 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Berrys' idea was to develop a better grocery store that brought back the feeling of open European-style markets. The company (as of December, 2011) operates 110 stores in 21 states, located in the Southeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast, with plans for continued expansion throughout the country. Their first store in the West opened in October 2012 in Roseville, Placer County, California, and it was an immediate success despite stiff competition.
Longtime family-owned Houston grocer Rice Epicurean Markets is closing all but one of the 5 stores to make way for The Fresh Market, the Greensboro, N.C.-based specialty food chain announced November 14, 2012. Fresh Market will remodel each location and plans to open the four stores in the latter half of next year.
After increasing the price of its initial public offering from $18–20 to $22, Fresh Market raised $290 million, and on November 5, 2010, began trading on Nasdaq using the symbol TFM.
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“Birch boughs enough piled everywhere!
All fresh and sound from the recent ax.
Time someone came with cart and pair
And got them off the wild flowers’ backs.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)