Henry Boney and his family founded Henry’s Farmers Market when they bought a truckload of peaches in 1943 and sold them on the street in San Diego. The chain had grown into 23 stores when it was bought by Wild Oats Market, which was then acquired by Whole Foods Market.
The Henry Boney family’s second venture was Sprouts Farmers Market, which had 150 locations when it was bought by Apollo Global Management and merged with Henry’s Farmers Market and Sun Harvest. The newly formed company operates under the Sprouts Farmers Market brand.
Today Sprouts Farmers Market operates 400 stores in Arizona, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah. The stores sell organic and local produce, all-natural seafood and meats, bulk foods, vitamins and supplements, and baked goods. Sprouts is #2 in the natural organic retail market, after Whole Foods.
In September 2023, Sprouts opened its 400th store in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Sprouts Farmers Market trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol SFM, is #857 in the Fortune 1000, has 17,000 employees, and had $2.97 billion in revenue in 2014.
Sprouts maintains a corporate office in Phoenix, Arizona.
Henry Boney and his family founded Henry’s Farmers Market when they bought a truckload of peaches in 1943 and sold them on the street in San Diego. The chain had grown into 23 stores when it was bought by Wild Oats Market, which was then acquired by Whole Foods Market.
History
The Henry Boney family’s second venture was Sprouts Farmers Market, which had 150 locations when it was bought by Apollo Global Management and merged with Henry’s Farmers Market and Sun Harvest. The newly formed company operates under the Sprouts Farmers Market brand.
Today Sprouts Farmers Market operates 400 stores in Arizona, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah. The stores sell organic and local produce, all-natural seafood and meats, bulk foods, vitamins and supplements, and baked goods. Sprouts is #2 in the natural organic retail market, after Whole Foods.
In September 2023, Sprouts opened its 400th store in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Sprouts Farmers Market trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol SFM, is #857 in the Fortune 1000, has 17,000 employees, and had $2.97 billion in revenue in 2014.
Sprouts maintains a corporate office in Phoenix, Arizona.
I had the worst experience at the 807 Sprouts in Owasso Ok. This Sprouts continues to hire snarky unprofessional managers . Jordon caused me to cuss because she wouldn’t listen to my problem and all she wanted to do was tell me her store problems! Why would I be interested in that, I’m the customer who had a problem with my ticket and she told me to leave the store, want taking verbal abuse! Is this how you train your managers to deal with issues?
On 12/18/19 my husband and I were in your store at 5150 W 120th Ave in Westminster, CO. There was a mat on the floor with a curled edge which I did not see. I tripped and went down on my left knee. The Manager was called who was a complete a**, my husband tried to tell him that it needs to be taken care of so no one else has a problem. All he could say is ” I know I got it “. I will never set foot in this store again, he never even asked if I was ok or not. I have been a customer of Sprouts for many years but I will sure change the location of the one I go to. It’s 2 days later and I am in terrible pain, thanks to the dangerous condition of the floor mat and incompetent staff at this store.
Thanksgiving Turkey, We ordered 2 20lb turkeys 2 weeks ago at the centennial colorado store, we were told we could leave the turkeys there and they will put our name on them to hold them. They told us we need to pick them up on 11/26 we went to pick them up on 11/26 and they gave them to someone else and did not know how this could happen. This is the 2nd year in a row this has happened. Now what do we do 1 day before thanksgiving and we need 2 20lb organic turkeys.
I love the new store here in LA on La Brea but I just got a mouthful of coffee grounds. I just wanted to let the store know so they could switch it out. I called and nobody picked up. Then I tried to fill out a contact form on the website but it wouldn’t let me select a city and it wouldn’t let me submit the form without selecting a city!
This has become quite a mission to let a store know to check their coffee filter but when I set my mind to something..
Resigned today from store #417. Calling local heath department and admin…
I have written to you 3 weeks ago to be removed from all mailouts, and yet I am still getting flyers…..I want this to end or will need to report this to government appropriate entity
Ron Kerbe
XXX Whalen Way
Oxnard, Calif. 93036
I bought a container of Nancys Probiotic cottage cheese yesterday May 8th. The
container date was April 19th I discovered a few minutes ago while hoping to prepare my lunch seriously!! I always check dates here because of previous bad dates however the employee was stocking the shelf at the time even handed it to me because his cart was blocking the way. Moral of story always check dates at Redlands Ca Sprouts.
I worked for sprouts in Simi Valley California for 3 years. I went from cashier, to back up scan, to head cashier to Scan Coordinator in 1 year. I worked tireless hours. I came in anytime they called, I never called out sick, I did a lot of overnights and overtime with no complaints. Durning the fires I was out in the parking lot giving out waters and sandwiches to people evacuated with no complaints. Breathing in the smoke n ashes but I was there for the community. So December 11,2018 sprouts decided to fire me because of 2 meal violations. One was on Thanksgiving I clocked in 30 seconds before my 30 min lunch was up because I was helping a customer. The 2nd time was the day after and I clocked out for lunch 1 min after my 5th hour because i was the only one in my department and I was behind putting sale tags up. I loved my job, I loved my store (220). I did so much for sprouts, to be let go over these 2 meal violations in so wrong. Then a week after I was fired the put in a new time clock that won’t let you clock out after your 5th hour or clock in before your 30 min lunch is up. How is this company going to fire me for these violations and then turn around and fix the problem a week later. This is so crazy and devestating to me. I don’t even know how to fight my wrongful termination or who to talk to? Anyone know how or who please call me 805-285-XXXX
Yeah I just received my termination today, this company is not right.
The reasons they gave me were rediculus
I manage a Mall in Anchorage Alaska which is the only Mall very well know for Healty Life Choices. We are losing a tenant of many years REI as they are building a new stand alone. The mall is filled with alternative living eateries, 24 hour health club and more. I am being asked by many to bring a Sprouts to our market. People pay more for food in Alaska and people will always pay more. What they want however is a healthy choice Market. The two main markets here are Carrs Safeway and Fred Meyers. People in Anchorage have always considered themselves “Foodies”. They go out to dinner more than most other areas of the Country. The cost of living is higher but so are the wages. We would love to know who to contact Thanks
Worst customer service! The management and corporate mentality does transfer to the very disposable staff. Employees at Sprouts are miserable because they are treated horribly. The corporate team that walks stores are clueless and rude. Regarding operations, Sprouts sells Mexican avocados even though the Mexican government has asked Americans to stop eating Mexican avocados because they are destroying their forests. Sprouts should not be selling Mexican avocados or Chinese produce. Pinching pennies and treating staff badly is what Sprouts is becoming known for. Also, notice that Sprouts is now removing many brands and product lines that customers shop there for- all so that they can put in their own brand name products that are mediocre at best. Their new cheaper coffee is disgusting. Camerons is gross, they should have stayed with Volcanic. But alas, they want to save money, not customers. Also, until they install gravity feed bulk containers, you do not want to buy in their bulk department. Other customers stick their hands in the bins, spit old shells back into the bins and basically contaminate food constantly. Too bad to see the direction Sprouts is going.
I paid for 1 pound of boys head cheese and 1 half gallon milk received
9 pices of cheese and a hot gallon milk have multiple health issues and they refuse to address these issues so over $14 and nothing in return but hand ups
The Sprouts Store in Frisco TX : Produce stocker and one of the Mgr’s Norm, were stocking Broccoli. It was being taken out of a box with Asian Writing on the side. J) PING
with the Asian writing below this. On the bottom of the box it said, Premium Broccoli. Loomis Distributing, Arroyo Grande, CA 93421 Ph: 805-748-0559. I asked the Mgr Norm
if they were selling Broccoli from China. I told him to look at the box. He did, and said he
did not know, but would look into it. I don’t know about other customers, but I do not want
my family eating any produce that comes from China. It doesn’t make sense. However,
I spoke with Steve at Loomis Distributing. Steve told me we do not get produce or neither
do they distribute any produce from China. It would not be eatable once it got here. They do use these boxes to distribute produce to Asian Customers. Doesn’t know why we got
it here. He told me to look on the box, upper right hand corner, and it should say product
of USA or Mexico. I will look for this the next time I am in the store to verify. I do not want
any food stuff from China. Whole Foods got into to a mess a year or two ago. They had
the Media with cameras out side the store in Plano TX holding frozen foods up in air “Made in China.” I know many of us buy products made in China, but not FOOD. Be
careful, investigate, read labels, buy Organic. BT
I cannot believe the way the store is going myself. I will go to their competitor which was one of his partners .
What a shame the lack of caring by Sprouts is very wrong I do want to know where my produce comes from!
WE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF A STORE IN PUEBLO OR PUEBLO WEST COLORADO.
THE STORE IN COLORADO SPRINGS IS TOO FAR AWAY.
WE NEED QUALITY PRODUCE AND OTHER VARIETIES TO CONTINUE TO LEAD HEALTHY LIVES.
PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you
I have been a Sprouts customer for several years. This is the first year I ordered a Thanksgiving turkey breast dinner to take home. I was very, very disappointed!! The breast itself was very small and overcooked, the “mashed potatoes” were thin and soupy, and the Hawaiian dinner rolls were stale. Also, I’ve always thought Spouts was health oriented, but the amount of sodium in the food made it inedible… Sorry to say, I could not eat it or even give it to my dog.
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I have been a weekly loyal customer of Sprouts in Encinitas, CA for many years. However, during the last few months they are continually out of a certain product (Cinnamon Bread). Ive asked the bakery department how often they stock this bread, I was told periodically. It use to be there every week. I contacted the company who sells the product to Sprouts and was informed that the management with Sprouts is having problems and that I can buy this product from Trader Joes fresh everyday! Not only have they increased their prices, they have horrible customer service. I will no longer shop at Sprouts, Trader Joes now has all of my business.
One of their employees told me to f**k off how do you like that one??
One of their employees told me “f**k Joe Biden”.
I was at the Sprouts store #10 (Higley and Southern in Mesa AZ) yesterday – A sign on the Arrowhead water (24 pkg) read – 2 for $5.00 – exp date was 8/30 – because I could not take the cases of water with me yesterday I decided to pick it up this morning which is 8/30. The sign was gone and a new sign said buy one get one free. I told the cashier about the sign from yesterday so she had a manager come over. I was told my your manager the dates on the sale signs mean nothing – they can change them when ever they want to and sometimes they don’t put dates on the signs. (I should have taken a picture of the sign but really didn’t think I would have issues – my mistake.) Just want you to know that is not a good way to run a store – even Walmart doesn’t to that. I’m really very disappointed in your store. You must remember the public has lots of stores to shop at – and I heard Whole Foods has lower prices woohoo – guess that is my go to store now. PS your store manager is NOT a “people person” – not a real nice person:((
I’ve been a loyal customers to Sprouts for years. I go in every weekend. This past weekend I bought some fresh wild caught sockeye salmon. I cooked a piece for my 2 year old the next day and the day after I was prepping to cook the other piece for my husband I noticed something moving on the surface. I looked closer and saw LIVE MOVING WORMS coming out of the fish!!! I fed my child this same fish the day before! I called the store immediately and was told someone will call me the next morning. I didn’t receive a call. I called myself and was told ‘I don’t know what to tell you’.. I emailed the pictures and videos I took and was still told ‘ I don’t know what to tell you’.. I am completely appalled and disgusted by this and how it was (wasn’t) handled with any concern.
Omg!!!! And I’m betting you’ve gotten still no apology or resolution!!
After reading your reviews I would be afraid to go to your store when you open on August 2nd in Nashville (Bellevue) Hope your customer service is better here and the management plus the corporate office.
I was looking for something…vinegar, Fire Vinegar, actually. The woman in the “nutritional Supplements was in her little office. I asked her if she knew anything about the products in that department. She left her computer, came out of ht office and spent twenty minutes explaining various supplements to me. I was so thankful and she was so knowledgable. I really appreciated her. She was tall-ish and blond-ish, but I don’t now her name.
I told her she was so helpful she must really love her work. she said she does.
Thanks. She’s an asset to you.
6/22/17 … afternoon.
At June 7 the at Sprouts Peachtree City GA, Deli Department I was waiting for almost 10 minutes (as the only customer this time) until I could announced my order of 2 items.The
Employee Corry was to busy goofing and talking around with his colleges. Result, I have to repeat twice my order and he charged me a higher price on one item. I asked to correct the price, he give a terrible and unprofessional attitude, still was googling and goofing with his college.. I remained him to focus more on the customer order and job, and he just left with a very bed attitude. A College finished than my order. A person like him should not work at such place especially with customers.He need a very good training in customer service, behavior and education. People like him give the store a bed reputation and rate! Unprofessional and be mannors and attitudes. I was a very unhappy and upset customer, so to shop there lost the positive side. Hope for the future, it will change and better customer service !
Hard to take you seriously when you can’t even write a simply educated paragrah that is even remotely understandable!!!! Sounds like jiberish!!! Did you read what you wrote….guess not! A little advice ….when complaining about other peoples incompitence make sure your grammar skills are complete!!
English was not the first language here and more importantly, the point got across. Well, I might add, considering the language barrier. They had a bad experience at Sprouts with a goofy college boy whim was playing on the phone and ignoring the customer, caught an attitude when corrected, and walked away having a tantrum. I understood what was said. Your response was unrelated and uncalled for.
I’m a former employee at sprouts and I will just say that management is horrible. The reason people do not put effort into their jobs is becuase the management is terrible. We have a 96% turn over rate and I once had a manager tell me that he would ” put me in a different postion just to fire me”. This is a unfortunate and a unacceptable way to speak to an employee. So it only makes sense that costumers are not receiving the care that they require from a “costumer service based company”. If the employer is not treating the employee correctly then the customers will not be treated correctly.. it is common sense that the two would go hand in hand. My suggestion to the customer is complain about management. Since that is why employees do not feel safe or capable of doing their jobs. Managers need to treat employees correctly. That way they feel comfortable in front of customers.
This does not surprise me at all my local sprouts here has terrible customer service.
I have written emails to Sprout’s Corporate, to no avail. Once again, I caught a man holding a dog in one hand, while bent over the salad bar picking olives and eating them, then petting his dog!
I am now beginning to tell people to STOP shopping at the Sprout’s in Carlsbad, Ca.If the owner does not have enough integrity to follow the California Food Retail Code Law, then he doesn’t deserve to have people shopping in his store.
Unfortunately this is a lot of sprouts.. and if it isn’t where you can see it… then it is probably in the back where a customer can’t see…
I work there and if your saying what I think….that if that is what we see in the outside you can only imagine what we don’t see? And I’m here to tell you that YOU ARE SO RIGHT ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY!!
Hello,
I fell in your Colorado Springs store on 12/23/16 roughly 5 feet from one of your employees in produce. After other customers helped me off the floor, he was right on cleaning up the water. No he did not ask if I was okay. I am sure he did witness that I fell. Yes I was able to get up and limp through my shopping. When cashing out I told your cashier what had occurred. Alyssa, the cashier profusely apologized cashed me out and said have a good day. I didn’t want to make a big fuss, though I was told to go back to the store that day so that I could sue. I don’t even want that now. I think it is greedy and unfair to falsely attempt to get money from anyone! I felt I did my part and if the knee I fell on was more then a bruise I would get the help that I needed to have it check out. I am finding that I should have made a big deal out of it and taken it all to the limits because not causing a scene and pretending I was broken or something…. Okay I am now upset. I have called the store and spoken to Penny, the Assistant manager. She said that she is getting no reply from Corp! She does not know what to do,and again I am apologized to. I am 52 years old and over 200 lbs person. My left foot slipped on a patch of water and shot out forward. I landed on my left knee. When the knee started to swell and get worse, is when I called your store to ask for help with getting it check out. Please tell me in what way was it my fault that two of your employees didn’t follow your protocols. Or is it that there is no process for them to follow? I am upset now because I am hurt and I do have faith in people doing the right thing. It is sad that I even have to write this because no one will contact the store manager so they can help me. I am trying to keep my emotion out of this. I just want help with getting my knee checked out and now feel that to have that done I am going to have to call a lawyer and make the fuss that I tried not to in the first place. It is stupid!
LaDonna Kuhlman
719-641-XXXXX
So sue them.
Like many of the other reviewers I am appalled by my recent shopping experience at a Sprouts located in Carmel Mountain Ranch (San Diego). Here is a synopsis of my visit today 1/9/2017:
I wanted to purchase fresh cod in the “butcher department” but you had to buy a shoulder to tail filet which equaled a piece too large for one serving. My husband asked the butcher to cut it in half for us but the butcher said that was not possible because if they cut fish in half then they can’t sell the rest. Seriously? Why bother having a “butcher shop” if you can’t cut meat or fish to order?
Next, in the produce department I went to the organic section to select some broccoli. There was broccoli with a sign on the display saying it was organic and just a little ways down in the display was more broccoli. I approached a “female” (looked more like a man) who was restocking produce to inquire about the broccoli that was in the organic section but not labeled organic. She advised it was not organic(?) so why was it in the organic section??? I also asked why the organic broccoli sold by the pound was sold untrimmed so it included much of the stalk which is useless. She replied “that’s how it comes in” in a snarky manner. I remarked that her attitude was similar to the butcher who couldn’t cut a piece of fish in half!
But wait there’s more incompetence…
In attempting to find the freshness date on some natural almond butter I found my hand dripping with oil from the containers. Apparently the stocker who put them out didn’t bother to wipe them off before putting them on display (very considerate)! So I decided to ask a cashier for a paper towel. The black haired woman with fake eyelashes looked at me as if I had asked for the moon, handed me the paper towel and didn’t say anything to me. (I’m sorry to have imposed upon you grumpy!)
And lastly, we were finally at the check out…and I asked that a package of frozen meat be put in a bag before placing it in the carry out bag. The bagger and the cashier looked at each other and said they could put it in a paper bag (that I would be charged for) but there were no bags to place meat in. I guess all the other customers don’t mind having raw meat juice leak on food items and stain their fabric bags. Keep in mind there was a produce display not more than 10 feet away from the checkout that has small plastics bags, but the bagger (small woman with red hair) was too busy chatting with the customer behind us to ensure out transaction was handled properly.
I hope the store manager from this location (Arturo) reads this and understands why I won’t be shopping at this or any other Sprouts again. Don’t your employees get any training on the value of good customer service? We spent over $100.00 today and You can be sure that the next time I need organic or gluten free products I’ll shop at at a local Farmers Market or commercial grocery where GOOD customer service is valued, even if it costs twice as much!!!
What terrible service at the La Canada Flintridge, CA store. All the good employees have left. All the friendly workers are gone. What is left is miserable and unhappy workers and far too few workers at that. This is a business that is operated with the intention of failing. Clearly operated to loose money. A most unfriendly and unpleasant store to shop at. I’m only shopping at Gelson’s down the street and I’m happy to pay more for fresher food and friendlier workers.
Love your store but Very Disappointed there are no ginger-mollasses cookies in the stores. I’ve waited all year and was told they aren’t even on the order lists! What’s going on? Please tell me they will be late or something but not that you don’t plan to make them anymore. Thanks for your help.
Call your Pearland store, early this morning, to see if there were any oatmeal raisin cookies in stock. Why did one of your managers answer the phone, left me on hold for 11 minutes (piss poor phone etiquette), never came back to answer my question and forced me to call back to get an answer that took 10 seconds on the 2nd call? A little retraining might be needed.
Since the contact function on your main page doesn’t work, I’m trying this. Could you satisfy my curiosity — is your store at Lomas and San Mateo in Albuquerque intended to lose money, as a tax write-off or is there some other reason you’ve hired the seriously poor manager. Spoiled food, most registers closed when store is busy, general dirtiness. Even though it’s closest to my house, I will be shopping somewhere else.
The La Canada Flintridge store is identical in poor or nonexistent management reported by jcb in Lomas and San Mateo/ The same spoiled food, closed registers during the busiest check out times and is also generally dirty. Corporate officers mailboxes are full so one can’t leave any messages. They clearly don’t want to hear from customers. This is a business that is well structured and intended to fail.