Luxury supermarket chain Erewhon is expanding in Southern California with three new stores in 2025, in the cities of Manhattan Beach, West Hollywood and Glendale.
The openings mark the largest expansion in several years for the retailer. “We see 2025 as the beginning of Erewhon 2.0 — a wave of expansion for us,” said Tony Antoci, who is chief executive. After relocating its central kitchen to a much larger industrial space last month, the company says it has the capacity to grow even more around Southern California.
The Manhattan Beach store will be Erewhon’s first in the South Bay and is scheduled to open in March. The West Hollywood store is set to open over the summer, and the Glendale store is expected to open toward the end of the year. Erewhon currently operates 10 markets, all of them in affluent areas of Los Angeles County. Its Pacific Palisades store, which survived the Palisades fire, is temporarily closed.
To support the addition of three new locations — and particularly the in-store cafes that have become core to Erewhon’s business — the company recently completed a three-year buildout of a new central kitchen in Vernon, which at 65,000 square feet is five times larger than its previous one in Boyle Heights. About 350 of Erewhon’s 2,500 employees work out of the new 110,000-square-foot Vernon building.