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Whole Foods to open new chain aimed at millennials
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May 7, 2015
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Whole Foods to open new chain aimed at millennials
The new chain is set to open next year.
File: A Whole Foods store in Austin, Texas, February 2007. Whole Foods Market has voluntarily recalled several sizes of assorted cookie platters sold at stores in Arizona, Southern California, Hawaii and Nevada.
File: A Whole Foods store in Austin, Texas, February 2007.
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The new chain is set to open next year.

Whole Foods announced yesterday its plans for a new chain that will cater to millennials. The new chain, which has no name yet, is set to open next year and will offer "high-quality fresh food at great prices," according to Co-CEO Walter Robb. 

Burt Flickinger is a grocery industry analyst in New York for Strategic Resource Group and he joined the show to explain the reason behind this move.