Eskinder Kedir, general manager of the new Hayward Sprouts supermarket, will be the featured speaker at the May 5 noon lunch meeting of the Hayward Rotary Club at 1074 B St.
Hayward has not had a full-service supermarket developed in more than a decade, and Spouts opened last fall at the corner of Mission Boulevard and Harder Road as part of a redevelopment of the former K-Mart site. Its community support includes connections to the Alameda County Food Bank.
Sprouts began as a fruit and vegetable stand in San Diego in 1943 and is one of the largest and fastest growing specialty retailers of fresh, natural and organic food in the United States. Sprouts employs approximately 31,000 team members and has more than 415 stores in 23 states.