Whole Foods Market to Open Six New London Stores by June – Doubling its UK Footprint
Whole Foods Market has announced the opening dates for six new stores coming to the U.K. over the next few months. In March 2025, the natural and organic foods retailer opened its first U.K. location in more than a decade with its 21,000 square foot store on King’s Road in London. The newest locations will open across Angel, Liverpool Street, Notting Hill Gate, Wood Wharf (Canary Wharf), Monument and St. James’s neighbourhoods, doubling Whole Foods Market’s U.K. store portfolio.
“We’re happy to be expanding Whole Foods Market’s physical store presence in the U.K., allowing us to reach more customers with our uncompromising quality standards and carefully curated selection of natural and organic products,” said Jason Buechel, Vice President of Amazon’s Worldwide Grocery Stores and Whole Foods Market CEO. “Each new store represents an opportunity to bring responsibly sourced, high-quality food to more communities who share our values of nourishing people and the planet.”
Opening dates for each location are as follows:
· Angel, The Mall, 359 Upper Street, The Angel, London N1 0PD, 2 April 2026
· Liverpool Street, Unit 4b-5, Blomfield Street, London EC2M 7BD, 23 April 2026
· Notting Hill Gate, 66-74 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3HT, 14 May 2026
· Wood Wharf, 4 Water Street, Wood Wharf, London, E14 5GX, 28 May 2026
· Monument, Unit 1, 20 Gracechurch Street London EC3V 0BG, 4 June 2026
· St. James, 57 Victoria Street, London SW1P 2HX, 11 June 2026
Special features and products will include prepared foods options include lunchtime salads, sandwiches and seasonal favourites, including Spanish-style free range chicken, Teriyaki Salmon and Crackling Cauliflower. Also, an array of certified organic and conventional produce as well as meat and seafood assortment featuring a variety of convenient grab-and-go offerings, including steaks, marinated and seasoned options for quick meals at home and packaged smoked items.
Other features will be a bakery department offering fresh bread daily as well as everyday favourites, such as Whole Foods Market’s Viennoiserie and brown butter cookies. The department also carries a wide variety of special diet items, including gluten and dairy-free brownies, doughnuts and biscuits.
There will also be a wellness & beauty department with a large assortment of supplements, skincare, haircare and more. And a speciality department dedicated to celebrating cheesemakers and artisan producers, featuring cheeses and charcuterie perfect for entertaining as well as local and premium range of beers, wines and spirits, including ready to drink options.
“We are thrilled to bring Whole Foods Market to more neighbourhoods in London,” said Jade Hoai, Executive Leader of Operations for Whole Foods Market U.K. “We look forward to opening our doors to these wonderful communities, and to providing great customer service and an excellent product assortment that meets our high quality standards.”
To celebrate the store openings, Whole Foods Market is making monetary donations to community nonprofit organizations including FoodCycle, All Saints Food Bank, Independent Food Aid Network and Family Action Food Clubs. Additionally, at the openings in Angel and Wood Wharf, Whole Foods Market will provide a food donation to The Felix Project, which makes regular surplus food pickups from local Whole Foods Market stores to help prevent food waste and serve the surrounding community. The nonprofit previously received a refrigerated van through Whole Foods Market’s Nourishing Our Neighbourhoods program which aims to enhance the ability of local food rescue organisations to transport surplus food to areas facing the greatest need.
The new locations also represent the international expansion of Whole Foods Market’s Daily Shop format, which launched in New York City in 2024. The Daily Shop store design maximizes the number of high-quality offerings available in locations under 14,000 square feet. These six new locations will vary in size between roughly 3,300 and 10,000 square feet. All stores will provide Whole Foods Market’s signature selection of fresh, high-quality products with a wide selection of organic across its grocery, meat, seafood, cheese and prepared foods departments.
All food at Whole Foods Market must meet the company’s rigorous quality standards, which prohibit hydrogenated fats, high-fructose corn syrup and more than 300 flavours, colours, sweeteners and other ingredients commonly found in food. In addition, all beauty and body care products must meet the company’s body care standards, which ban more than 240 commonly used ingredients, including phthalates, parabens and microbeads.