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Re:North Carolina? - 2006/09/25 18:51
More detail on the Cary, NC (Triangle) site:
http://www.carynews.com/107/story/4039.html
By Adam Arnold, Staff Writer
Get ready epicures: Trader Joe’s is coming to Cary.
The discount gourmet store beloved by many on the West Coast and points eastward confirmed Tuesday that it is scheduled to open a Cary location in the Shoppes of Kildaire shopping center this year.
“There’s a ton of foodies there,” said Alison Mochizuki, Trader Joe’s national publicity director. “It seems like a really great city for us to be in.”
Trader Joe’s submitted plans to upfit the former Winn-Dixie space and use 18,725 square feet, said Bob Strowbridge, Cary’s director of Inspections & Permits.
Regency Centers, which handles leasing for Shoppes of Kildaire, shows on its Web site that the space has a total of 44,000 square feet.
Strowbridge did not know who prospective tenants for the remainder of the space might be.
Trader Joe’s started in California in the late 1950s and now has more than 250 stores in 20 states. Its reputation has developed because of low prices on its 2,000 products that range from beer and wine to cheeses to herbs, trail mixes and snacks. Many items, such as the Charles Shaw “Two Buck Chuck” wines (reds and whites ranging from $1.99 to $3.39 per bottle), are available only at Trader Joe’s or bear store labels.
According to Hoover’s, an online affiliate of business-research giant Dun & Bradstreet, Trader Joe’s is owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht, who also own the Aldi food chain
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