Schnucks readies opening of Eatwell Market in suburban St. Louis

A brand new Eatwell Market is about to open this week in Chesterfield, Missouri. / Photograph courtesy of Schnuck Markets

Schnuck Markets is about to open its second Eatwell Market on Wednesday, March 29, in Chesterfield, Missouri.

The brand new 30,000-square-foot retailer, positioned at 220 THF Blvd., within the St. Louis suburb, will concentrate on pure and natural meals, St. Louis-based Schnucks introduced Monday. The regional grocer had unveiled plans for the brand new Eatwell location, its second, in early November.

A Schnucks spokesperson couldn’t instantly be reached for touch upon the brand new retailer.

The primary Eatwell Market opened in Columbia, Missouri, in June 2020. That location was expanded in August 2022 with the addition of a Schnucks Specific location. The enlargement got here after clients requested extra standard merchandise, the grocery store advised Winsight Grocery Enterprise on the time.

Schnucks stated the brand new Eatwell in Chesterfield will present “alternatives for patrons to find new objects every time they store.”

“We sit up for introducing St. Louis-area clients to our Eatwell Market, which can carry them a ‘past the anticipated’ procuring expertise,” Schnucks Chairman and CEO Todd Schnuck stated in a press release. “This retailer will permit us to construct on our mission to nourish individuals’s lives by providing consumers a retailer the place they’ll keep targeted on well being and wellness whereas additionally discovering new, native objects.”

The Chesterfield Eatwell Market will carry natural produce in addition to “a big array of conventionally grown vegetables and fruit,” in accordance with Schnucks. Additionally, the meat division will provide merchandise which are freed from antibiotics or progress hormones. 

The corporate additionally highlighted sections providing made-to-order merchandise equivalent to pizzas and sandwiches, store-cut artisanal cheeses and charcuteries, an olive bar and a man-made intelligence-powered “sensible salad bar.”

The brand new Eatwell, which might be Schnucks’ one hundred and fifteenth location, might be managed by Taylor Clark, who’s relocating from Schnucks in Maplewood, Missouri. The shop will make use of roughly 75 individuals on the outset and continues to be hiring, the grocery store famous.

General, Schnucks at present operates 114 shops in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.