The Fresh Market opened two stores on Wednesday as the specialty grocery chain continues a growth spurt that has seen it debut seven locations in 2025.
The new stores include a location in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood as well as one in Lexington, Kentucky. Both offer a selection of meats, seafood, fresh produce, local products and goods from outside the U.S., The Fresh Market said in a press release.
The Chicago store occupies space that housed a Dom’s Kitchen & Market store until that chain went out of business in early 2024.The Fresh Market opened its first store in the city in October 2024. That location, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, also previously housed a former Dom’s store.
The Fresh Market’s new location in Lexington is about 15,000 square feet larger than the chain’s first store in the city, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. The just-opened store is located in a space that was formerly home to a Buy Buy Baby store.
While The Fresh Market is wrapping up 2025 in expansion mode, the chain also closed two stores this year. Those locations, in Naperville, Illinois, and Framingham, Massachusetts, were both open for less than a year at the time the chain decided to shutter them.
The grocery chain operates about 170 stores in 22 states as well as a single Spirits & Wine store in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, that opened in March. The five other stores The Fresh Market debuted in 2025 include one each in South Carolina, Florida and Connecticut as well as locations in the greater Chicago area communities of Algonquin and Northbrook, Illinois.
