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WATCH ABOVE: Whole Foods Market has announced it is expanding into Alberta. Lisa Wolansky has the details.

EDMONTON — Edmontonians will have a new option for grocery shopping by next year.

Whole Foods Market – which specializes in natural, organic and local products – announced plans Wednesday for a 42,000-square foot location in south Edmonton.

The company hopes to have the store up and running in South Park Centre on Calgary Trail by the fall of 2016.

“We will be working with growers, suppliers, ranchers and manufacturers in Alberta … to source as many local products and services as we can find,” said Joe Rogoff, president of Whole Foods Market’s Pacific Northwest Region.

This will be the company’s first store in Alberta. Whole Foods has been in Canada for more than 10 years and currently has stores in B.C. and Ontario.

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Whole Foods also announced Wednesday it will open new stores in Calgary and Victoria, B.C.

The Calgary location is expected to open its doors in the summer of 2017. An exact location for the store has not yet been announced.

Whole Foods says each store will create an estimated 150 jobs.