The Fresh Market got its start 25 years ago 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 featured loose produce, vitamins, bulk foods and freshly roasted coffee in bins and stood in stark contrast to conventional grocery stores, where at the time, had increasingly become industrialized and the stores bigger and sterile.