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Trader Joe's is expected to open more stores next year.
Trader Joe's fans should a Dozens of new stores “Opening soon,” according to the grocery chain's website.
FOX Business has reached out to Trader Joe's for comment. A spokeswoman told Nexstar that the chain will unveil additional planned openings “throughout the year.”
A sign on a shopping cart at Trader Joe's Upper East Side Bridgemarket grocery store in New York City on Dec. 2, 2021. (Jane Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The 12 stores that Trader Joe's announced are scattered across the country.
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Three of them are set to open in California, while two more dealers are coming to Washington state and the District of Columbia. According to Trader Joe's, the other five will be located in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New York, Alabama and Maryland.
They will add to the hundreds of stores Trader Joe's currently operates across the country.
The exact locations of the 12 stores that are set to open soon are:
California
- 9224 Rashada 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 Ave
Tennessee
- 2305 Parkway Medical Center, 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 very good pace right now and adding more stores,” Tara Miller, the company's vice president of marketing, said on an October episode of the Inside Trader Joe's podcast.
He also said that the chain “Growing rapidly that we can preserve it.”
Co-host Matt Sloan said Trader Joe's looks where the people are as it selects sites to open a new store.
Trader Joe's, an American chain of grocery stores, does not have sales, coupons, loyalty programs, or membership cards. (Michael Silock/UCG/Universal Pictures Group via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“This could be an area where a Trader Joe's store isn't 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 it might take a long time, that could be interesting.”
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Trader Joe's criteria for locations is “really about accessibility and ease of entry and exit and flow of traffic patterns,” he said.
Sloan also said Trader Joe's is “not interested in growing by just buying another chain and putting a different sign on the building.”
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“It doesn't really feel like a neighborhood Trader Joe's,” he said. So, we're looking for things that are an opportunity for us to make that neighborhood store a great Trader Joe's for that area.
The grocery chain Trader Joe's is immediately recognizable upon entering. Quirky and witty signs are scattered throughout the store, attracting customers 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 opening page. Those sites were located in Milwaukee, Oregon. Vista, California; Palm Harbor, Florida; and Alpharetta, Georgia.
The chain's first store opened in 1967 in Pasadena, California.