After a period during which it slowed new-store growth to invest in price, Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market (and its new investment partner, Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners) expect to open 17 new stores in 2011 and 19 in 2012, compared with 15 stores opened last year and 15 more expected this year, reports Supermarket News. Sites include San Francisco; Boise, Idaho; Minneapolis; and Washington D.C.; plus two in Austin.