Whole Foods Market announced Thursday (March 12) the opening dates for six new U.K. store locations, all under the Daily Shop format, doubling the grocer’s footprint in the country.
These stores, all in London, mark the first locations under Whole Foods’ small-format concept to debut outside the U.S. and will open between April and June. All but one are former Amazon Fresh storefronts.
This international expansion comes at a time of significant change for Whole Foods’ parent company, Amazon, which ceased operations on its Amazon Fresh format at the start of this year.
Whole Foods’ growth in the U.K. has been largely dormant for more than a decade, aside from a 21,000-square-foot location the grocer opened in March 2025 on King’s Road in London.
The soon-to-open storefronts in the Angel, Liverpool Street, Notting Hill Gate, Wood Wharf and Monument neighborhoods are former Amazon Fresh sites, while the final store to open is in the St. James area. These new locations will bring Whole Foods’ U.K. store count up to 12.
The new stores vary in size, but will range roughly from 3,300 square feet to 10,000 square feet, the announcement noted.
Each new store will offer prepared foods, a meat and seafood assortment with grab-and-go offerings, a bakery, a wellness and beauty section and a department dedicated to cheese and charcuterie.
Since shuttering the Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go banners earlier this year, Amazon has pivoted to focus solely on Whole Foods for its brick-and-mortar grocery business. But even before announcing the end of these grocery chains, Amazon last September revealed plans to close more than a dozen Amazon Fresh locations in the U.K. and convert five into Whole Foods locations.
Whole Foods opened its inaugural Daily Shop store in New York City in 2024 and, since then, has opened three more in the city, one in Hoboken, New Jersey, and another in Arlington, Virginia.