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Trader Joe’s is expected to open more stores in the coming year.
Fans of Trader Joe’s should see a a dozen new shops “opening soon,” according to the grocery chain’s website.
FOX Business has reached out to Trader Joe’s for comment. A spokesperson told Nexstar that the chain will reveal additional planned openings “over the course of the year.”
A sign on a shopping cart at Trader Joe’s Upper East Side Bridgemarket grocery store in New York City on December 2, 2021. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The 12 stores that Trader Joe’s announced are spread across the country.
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Three of them are set to open in California, while two more Trader Joe’s are coming to Washington state and the District of Columbia. The other five will be located in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New York, Alabama and Maryland, according to Trader Joe’s.
It will add to the hundreds of stores Trader Joe’s currently operates across the country.
The exact locations of the 12 stores expected to open soon are:
California
- 9224 Reseda Blvd., Northridge
- 14140 Riverside Dr., Sherman Oaks
- 18700 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana
Washington
- 8726 Greenwood Ave., Seattle
- 4255 Meridian St., Suite 200, Bellingham
District of Columbia
- 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW
- 701 Monroe St. NOT
Tennessee
- 2305 Medical Center Parkway, Murfreesboro
Pennsylvania
- 550 Lancaster Ave., Berwyn
New York
- 6400 Amboy Rd., Staten Island
Alabama
- 1771 Montgomery Hwy., Hoover
Maryland
- 225 N Washington St., Rockville
Trader Joe’s is “growing at a pretty good rate right now, adding more and more stores,” Tara Miller, the company’s vice president of marketing, said on an October episode of the Inside Trader Joe’s podcast.
She also said that the chain “growing at a pace that we can maintain.”
Co-host Matt Sloan said Trader Joe’s looks “to where the people are” as it determines locations for new store openings.
Trader Joe’s, an American grocery store chain, has no sales, coupons, loyalty programs or membership cards. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“That might be an area where there’s no Trader Joe’s available right now,” he said during the episode. “Even though it might be an area that’s really densely populated and the traffic patterns are such that getting from one Trader Joe’s to another neighborhood might be close but might take a really long time, that might be interesting.”
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He said Trader Joe’s criteria for locations “is really about access and ease of ingress and egress, and traffic flow.”
Trader Joe’s “is not interested in growing by buying another chain and putting a different sign on the building,” Sloan also said.
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“It wouldn’t quite feel like the Trader Joe’s next door,” he said. “So we’re looking at things that are opportunities for us to make that neighborhood store a great Trader Joe’s for the area.”
The grocery store chain Trader Joe’s is instantly recognizable upon entering. Quirky and humorous signs are spread throughout the store, luring shoppers in Buffalo, New York, on July 10, 2015. (Melissa Renwick/Toronto Star via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Trader Joe’s opened four stores in December, according to its store openings page. These locations were located in Milwaukee, Oregon; Vista, California; Palm Harbor, Florida; and Alpharetta, Georgia.
The chain’s first store, launched in 1967, is located in Pasadena, California.
