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WASHINGTON - Trader Joe’s is expected to open twelve more stores in the coming year – and two will be in the DMV area.
Fans of Trader Joe’s are slated to see a dozen new stores "opening soon," according to the grocery store chain’s website.
One stores is slated to open in Northwest D.C., and the other in Rockville, Maryland.
Locations for new Trader Joe's stores:
- 5335 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington DC
- 225 N. Washington Street, Rockville MD
FOX Business reached out to Trader Joe’s for comment. A spokesperson told Nexstar the chain will unveil additional planned openings "throughout the year."
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 in an October episode of the Inside Trader Joe’s podcast.
She also said the chain was "growing at a pace that we can sustain."
Co-host Matt Sloan said Trader Joe’s looks "where people are" as it determines sites to open a new store.
"It could be an area where there is no currently available Trader Joe’s store," he said during the episode. "Although it might be an area that's really densely populated and traffic patterns are such that getting from one Trader Joe's to another neighborhood, it may be close, but it might take a really long time, that could be interesting."
The D.C. location will be in the Friendship Heights neighborhood, near D.C.’s border with Maryland. The Maryland location is near Rockville Town Square, near other shops and eateries.
The Source: This story was reported with information from Trader Joe's and reporting from FOX Business.