PlantX Life Inc said it has celebrated the opening of its 6,000 square-foot vegan superstore XMarket Uptown in Chicago, the company’s second XMarket store in the United States and seventh store globally.
The company said the opening event included festivities such as booths and sampling stations from vegan brands Dreampops, Kitchen 17, Good2Go Veggie, and Up-N-Down Burger.
To continue to leverage the success of live events, XMarket Uptown has weekly events scheduled through the end of 2022, it added.
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PlantX CEO Lorne Rapkin said the company’s carefully designed XMarket concept brought the vegan lifestyle directly to consumers in Chicago to taste, explore, and understand the plant-based lifestyle.
"XMarket is a vegan bodega, featuring a highly curated selection of the best vegan products available from around the world as well as nearby,” he added. “Our goal is to make the plant-based lifestyle accessible.”
PlantX’s other XMarket locations can be found in Rideau (Ottawa), Squamish, Yorkdale (Toronto), Venice Beach, Tel Aviv, with a co-branded location in Plainfield (Illinois).
PlantX's platform is a one-stop shop for plant-based products.
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