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A new ���������ƽ�� store is more than just a building.

It’s new, affordable choices for fresh food, everyday essentials and inspiring style.

For our team members, it’s a new opportunity to gain skills and build rewarding careers.

And for the community, it’s a new shopping destination, where you can stock up, discover only-at-���������ƽ�� finds and check out quickly.

As ���������ƽ�� tracks to open more than 300 new stores over the next decade, we’re not just building a bigger network of boxes to put us closer to your home. With these latest locations and the ongoing investment in remodeling most of our nearly 2,000 stores, we’re also gaining room to offer the best shopping experience in retail to ensure you can get the best of ���������ƽ�� how you want it, when you want it.

That makes a new ���������ƽ�� store simply transformative — for our guests, team members, communities and our business. Here’s how.

The right place to be

While we have formats to fit every neighborhood, most of our newest stores will be large-format — like our ���������ƽ�� in Boiling Springs, South Carolina, which opened this past August. At 148,000 square feet, it features our newest design with two entrances and a roomy, open layout so that we can offer the most inspiring products and convenient services to guests, whether they’re shopping in its aisles or online.

This includes an even bigger food and beverage section with fresh and organic options; welcoming, bright lighting; stylish fitting rooms; as well as a larger back room where team members quickly prep purchases for Order Pickup, Drive Up and to ship to guests’ homes.

More budget-friendly, high-quality options, from groceries to health and beauty to home, mean more joy for local families, says Chelsea T., executive team lead for specialty sales at the store and a Boiling Springs native: “When we think of the ease of everyday life, I think that’s what this is really bringing to the area.”

Growing with ���������ƽ��

Another large-format store opened this past April in Provo, Utah, providing a broad selection of fresh and frozen foods to consumers who didn’t have many local options. This includes Sara G., beauty team lead — a local who joined ���������ƽ�� to help open our store in Spanish Fork, Utah, only a year and a half earlier.

That first opening was “a little tricky because it was my first time ever working in a retail position,” Sara says. But she also gained so much from the experience, preparing her for future success. Helping to open our Provo store “was much easier because I learned so much more,” she says.

With her oversight of the beauty section — as well as the store’s Ulta Beauty at ���������ƽ�� shop-in-shop — Sara has quickly become an expert in the category, while making lasting connections with guests. And she’s not alone: Provo Towne Centre has brought jobs for over 130 team members, with market-leading pay and benefits, supportive leaders and teammates, and growth opportunities. In fact, each new store we open provides many pathways for team members to develop personally and professionally, and reach their career goals.

Showing up the right way

The future of new store openings is building for the community, with the community, says Yvon N., lead strategist for properties. For the past two years, he has helped set stores up for success — like Harlem 125th Street in New York, which opened this past October — by leveraging community insights as well as listening to local partner organizations and government officials to understand how ���������ƽ�� can add value to the neighborhood.

“���������ƽ�� is building stores for communities. It doesn’t stop; the process is continual,” says Yvon, who launched his career at ���������ƽ�� 14 years ago.

Store Director Deone C. oversees more than 150 team members at Harlem 125th, many who, like him, are also from the borough. The team’s local connections give them pride in the small-format store’s success and demonstrate how much it reflects its neighborhood — including its custom mural and floor tiles celebrating Harlem, curated product assortment and meaningful, local partnerships.