Sprouts Farmers Market on Palm Avenue in La Mesa traces its lineage to a 1943 San Diego fruit stand where the Boney family hauled peaches from a single truck. The open-floor layout positions bulk bins of grains, nuts, and dried goods at the store's center, framing a produce-forward shopping path that echoes the farm-stand origins shared with La Mesa Boulevard's own breakfast-and-brunch pipeline at La Mesa Bistro & Bakery. Stan and Shon Boney opened the first Sprouts in Chandler, Arizona, in 2002, and a 2011 merger reunited the brand with Henry's Farmers Market—the chain their family had sold to Wild Oats Markets in 1999 for $46 million. The vitamin and supplement aisle stocks plant-based proteins, adaptogens, and certified-organic tinctures sourced from over 700 suppliers, placing Sprouts La Mesa in the same natural-foods corridor as Frazier Farms Market farther east on University Avenue. The in-house butcher counter processes antibiotic-free poultry and grass-fed beef to USDA specifications, while the bulk foods section dispenses over 100 varieties of whole grains, legumes, and trail-mix components through gravity-fed bins calibrated by weight.