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CHAPEL HILL -- Dozens of workers -- nay, crew members -- bustled inside the soon to open Trader Joe's in Eastgate Shopping Center this week.

They inventoried vegetable chips and bottles of wine. They shelved items, swept the floor and readied the store for the 5,000 customers -- landlubbers, they're called -- expected Friday starting at 9 a.m.

After months of waiting, the much-anticipated Trader Joe's, a California-based specialty grocery store known for its Hawaiian shirt-clad employees, quality goods and low prices, is finally opening.

On Wednesday, there was a definite excitement in the air.

"The whole setting up, placing the first product on the shelf, is very euphoric," said Greg Fort, the "captain" of the Chapel Hill store who's been at the helm of two other
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