Sprouts Farmers Market
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc offers a specialty grocery experience featuring an open layout with fresh produce at the heart of the store. Sprouts inspire wellness naturally with a carefully curated assortment products paired with purpose-driven people. The company continues to bring products made with lifestyle-friendly ingredients such as organic, plant-based, and gluten-free. It approximately has 407 stores in nearly 23 states. The Company has one operating segment that is healthy grocery stores.www.sprouts.com
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Sep 28, 2026
Tim ChantarangsuHOST
I'm a big Whole Foods guy.
Tim ChantarangsuHOST
I'm a big Sprouts guy.
Tim ChantarangsuHOST
Um-
Hungry4MunchiesGUEST
That's what I'm saying.
Tim ChantarangsuHOST
Mm.
Tim ChantarangsuHOST
Like that?
Hungry4MunchiesGUEST
Sprouts and Whole Foods aim health-
Tim ChantarangsuHOST
Mm-hmm
Rob McDanielGUEST
And it's super frustrating.
Rob McDanielGUEST
I mean, I would say of all the major grocery chains, Sprouts probably does the best job.
Rob McDanielGUEST
It's still frustrating because they will sell greenwash labels.
Rob McDanielGUEST
And so...
Erica HaftGUEST
Yeah, I did do in-store demos.
Erica HaftGUEST
We were lucky enough to launch in Sprouts' Forge Refines Innovation section.
Erica HaftGUEST
Thank you.
Erica HaftGUEST
That was an incredible experience.
Caitlin BrickerHOST
So what was it like when somebody comes back to you after doing their grocery shopping? What's the feedback that they're giving you?
Erica HaftGUEST
So the feedback I got was, yeah, it tasted really great.
Erica HaftGUEST
It was like still in their mouth, but they were like a little hesitant because they looked at the price in Sprouts when I was doing the demos and we priced it at $8.99 initially.
Erica HaftGUEST
I'm happy to report we've lowered it to $7.99.
Lou PenroseHOST
Good news, though.
Lou PenroseHOST
You can still get Boar's Head here in San Diego at Sprouts.
Lou PenroseHOST
Okay, we got time for the Starbucks story? We got this.
Lou PenroseHOST
All right.
Jill NorrisGUEST
And if you don't eat your produce in two days, it's going to go bad.
Jill NorrisGUEST
Then I got to Phoenix and I realized that the best options out there were Walmart and Sprouts.
Jill NorrisGUEST
Both of these places are spraying their produce with something called ProMax.
Jill NorrisGUEST
I know that's the name of it from Sprouts, but they're definitely spraying our organic produce to give it a longer shelf life.
Jill NorrisGUEST
So when our options are not the best, when it comes to the food system, cleaning our food becomes extremely important.
Jill NorrisGUEST
The amount of pesticides, I know we talk a lot about Roundup and glyphosate, but there's a lot of other ones that don't get spoken about so much like Paraquat.
Kelly CappasolaHOST
You can also find them at independent natural retailers nationwide.
Kelly CappasolaHOST
I know Sprouts has brought them in.
Kelly CappasolaHOST
But again, organic, vegan, non-GMO, and always crafted with clean ingredients.
Kelly CappasolaHOST
And those are things you can always feel good about.
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Brian UptonGUEST
Yeah.
Kelly CappasolaHOST
Look, you got a lot going on.
Kelly CappasolaHOST
You're getting picked up in major markets, you know, Erewhon, Sprouts.
Kelly CappasolaHOST
What's really next? What are you most excited about as Elevate Organic enters into the next chapter of being in this business and this industry?
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You got chicken? Welcome back to another food waste dump.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
For those of you that are new to my page, we take thousands of pounds of food waste from Sprouts Farmers Market and local restaurants and bring them back and dump them for our chickens.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[upbeat music] Now, you guys have been asking for a longer time of them eating the food scraps, so I'm gonna leave it on longer and let them eat away so you guys can enjoy.
Tara Vander DussenHOST
And for our audio listeners like me, [laughs] essentially it was a giant, like, truck and trailer, not like a semi-truck, just like a truck pulling a big wooden trailer, filled with food waste, scraps, produce, vegetables, meat, chicken, as we will probably talk about, and he is literally just ch- dumping it into a pasture with, um, chickens, ducks, geese, all sorts of birds of fowl.
Matthew KubickGUEST
So that also helps us stay in line.
Matthew KubickGUEST
So like Sprouts is like our number one, retailer that we demo at.
Matthew KubickGUEST
So because we demo there, naturally, we're going to have more organic, more regenerative, organic, more sustainable type brands that we represent.
Matthew KubickGUEST
So it's been hard at times, but in general, we've been very blessed.
Corwin HiebertHOST
And when I was doing my homework on you, I was, I'll be honest, I was especially given your brand and positioning and messaging around your B2B offering.
Corwin HiebertHOST
I was kind of surprised to see this two sides of the coin.
Corwin HiebertHOST
You've got Costco and you're leaning into Costco roadshows on one side, and then you've got this Sprouts, plucky, scrappy neighborhood kind of demo, local demo feel on the other side.
Corwin HiebertHOST
Where do you see sort of the commonalities and the differences between those two types of activations?
Billy EdPANELIST
They were using pesticides? Well, yeah.
Billy EdPANELIST
Isn't the whole point of Sprouts that it's like a healthy grocery store? They decided not to mention it to the shopping public or put a word out about it, but somebody in Texas government found out that that's what they're doing.
Billy EdPANELIST
They're spraying this particular pesticide as a chlorine-based synthetic pesticide Anti-microbial.
Billy EdPANELIST
Yeah, anyway, it's not really to fight bugs or pests like a pesticide normally would be.
Billy EdPANELIST
And isn't that really the most important part is how delectable
WaltonHOST
it looks before you buy it.
WaltonHOST
Well, Sprouts is one of those crunchy granola grocery stores like Whole Foods.
WaltonHOST
The whole point of going there is that you're supposed to get healthier, cleaner produce.
Ashley NicholHOST
I'm your host, Ashley Nichol, and I'm delighted to welcome as our guest today Blake Lee, produce director of Rouses Markets.
Ashley NicholHOST
Blake's career has also included stints at Bristol Farms as the director of produce procurement, marketing, merchandising, and supply chain.
Ashley NicholHOST
Earlier, he was at Sprouts Farmers Markets as a produce buyer, and before that, he was at Henry's Farmers Market as a produce manager.
Ashley NicholHOST
Blake, thank you so much for taking the time today, and welcome to the Produce Retail Podcast.
Blake LeeGUEST
Happy to be here.
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