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American grocery giant Whole Foods Market, specializing in natural and organic food, announced Wednesday it will open a store in Calgary in the summer of 2017.

But it did not say exactly where the local store will be located.

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Susan Livingston, regional marketing director for the company’s Pacific Northwest region, said Calgary has been in its sight for a number of years.

“Scouting the area, looking for locations and trying to understand how it all could work,” she said. “We know it’s a thriving community. It’s growing. A lot of new industry there. And a place where there’s not a whole lot of natural and organic grocery available for customers.”

Livingston said she is hopeful there will be more than one store eventually in Calgary.

“That’s our vision. It takes time. Typically what happens is we start with one store in a market . . . and we will learn a lot with that first store,” she said. “We have a lot to learn about the community itself, about the priorities and needs of the community and we need to establish an employee base there.”