{"id":73262,"date":"2025-08-16T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73262\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:22:09","slug":"whole-foods-closing-two-toronto-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73262\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods closing two Toronto stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0August 15, 2025 at 3:50PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0August 15, 2025 at 12:54PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">American grocery chain Whole Foods is set to shutter two Toronto-based stores in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A representative with the health-food focused market said they will be closing their Yonge and Sheppard and Leaside stores by Aug. 22. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLike any retail business, we regularly evaluate each of our stores and make decisions to position the company for long-term success,\u201d an email statement read. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Whole Foods Market Yorkville and Markham locations will continue to operate, and a new location is planned for the King Street West neighbourhood later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The grocery store\u2019s representative said they were committed to supporting impacted employees and \u201cmaking any transition as seamless as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An employee with Whole Food\u2019s Sheppard location told CTV News that staff learned on Friday morning that the store would be closing. The source said staff was told the decision wasn\u2019t related to the trade war with the U.S. or Amazon\u2019s ownership of the company, but rather based on which stores weren\u2019t performing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0August 15, 2025 at 3:50PM EDT Published:\u00a0August 15, 2025 at 12:54PM EDT American grocery chain Whole Foods is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-73262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}