Inviting...comfortable...convenient. The Fresh Market stores evoke different responses for every customer. Maybe you enjoy our daily sampling and the opportunity to warm up with a cup of coffee while you shop. Or maybe you expect the great service our butcher provides each time you hand-select your meat and seafood. Whatever the reason you shop TFM, the stores boast a warm friendly atmosphere and an accommodating staff.

The Fresh Market got its start on March 8, 1982 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded by Ray and Beverly Berry, The Fresh Market was the fulfillment of a dream; to develop a better grocery store that brought back the feeling of open European style markets. Smaller, service oriented and focused on perishable goods, the 14,000 sq. ft. store with 50 employees at the corner of Lawndale Drive and Pisgah Church Road was just that. The small store with loose produce, vitamins, bulk foods and freshly roasted coffee in bins stood in stark contrast to conventional grocery stores at the time where foods had increasingly become industrialized and the stores bigger and sterile.