<p>Whole Foods has opened a new 31,513 square foot store in Melrose, Massachusetts. The store, located at 880 Main Street, employs 125 full and part time local team members and marks the company’s 24th location serving Massachusetts. To celebrate this grand opening, Whole Foods Market is proudly partnering with the Whole Kids Foundation to donate a salad bar to the Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">“We feel so privileged at the opportunity to serve as the community grocery store to our new neighbors here in Melrose,” said Todd McInnis, Store Team Leader. “Since this store was first announced, the wonderful feedback and resounding support we have received has made us feel so welcome in the community.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The location presents thousands of high quality natural and organic grocery, dairy, produce, seafood and body care products on their shelves. In addition, the new store also presents a full butcher shop with meat cutters on staff offering consumers a combined 94 years of experience. There will also be a specialty department complete with charcuterie and fresh, cut-to-order pastas, a pizza oven with a dedicated phone line in the bakery department that allows customers to call in orders, as well as a bulk department featuring a broad selection of dried beans, nuts, dried fruits and grains, according to a press release.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The prepared foods department will chef-run and will be serving cold and hot, restaurant-quality options from breakfast through dinner, as well as soup, rotisserie chickens, sandwiches, made-in-store sushi and convenient pre-packaged meals to go. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/healthy-eating" target="_new">Whole Foods</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
