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When I lived in Duluth, I recall there being a huge push for Trader Joes’s and Chick Fil A but their respective corporate cited being too far from distribution. I thought that was an unsatisfactory explanation because Grand Forks, ND has Chick Fil A and definitely more out of the way.
When I lived in Duluth, I recall there being a huge push for Trader Joes’s and Chick Fil A but their respective corporate cited being too far from distribution. I thought that was an unsatisfactory explanation because Grand Forks, ND has Chick Fil A and definitely more out of the way.
Really? I thought Chick Fil A was all over the place nowadays. Honestly I'd imagine they'd be building a location up there sometime soon, they expanded like crazy over the past decade or so.
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Our current city of 60,000 has one, as did the unincorporated town we lived in before, Castro Valley, CA population about the same. I suspect that it's not population as much as having people that fit their customer profile. That is, educated, tech savvy, health conscious, but looking for better prices than Whole Foods.
Our current city of 60,000 has one, as did the unincorporated town we lived in before, Castro Valley, CA population about the same. I suspect that it's not population as much as having people that fit their customer profile. That is, educated, tech savvy, health conscious, but looking for better prices than Whole Foods.
There are two towns that border my town that each have one. Those towns only have 11,000 and 18,000 people in them. Both Trader Joe’s are within 5 miles of my town, which has 30,000 people.
I lived in San Rafael, CA in the early 90s and we had one there, back then. I missed it when I moved back east, and it was over a decade before we got them here.
Now we just need In N’ Out Burger and we are all set.
The smallest community with a TJ's here in GA is Athens (pop 125,691).
Interesting. Portland, ME was my first guess as the metro is somewhere in the ballpark of 550k. Then I realized Burlington VT had one in the metro (215k) too. Bend has a larger population within the city limits, but is a much smaller overall area (165k metro). So Bend is definitely the smaller area.
Hadley, MA wasn't on my radar and may be the smallest municipality with one, but it's part of the Springfield Metro area which has nearly 700k people. The interesting thing is that this kind of says a lot about where the wealth and cultural influences are in the Springfield MSA. The Trader Joe's is just over a half hour from downtown Springfield, but it's 5 minutes from downtown Amherst (UMass and other colleges), and less than 15 from downtown Northampton - the cultural hub of the region. So while this is a larger metro area, the fact that there's a TJ's there likely has little to do with the principal city/urban area of the metro (Springfield) and much more to do with the massive college town of Amherst and the smaller, but culturally influential city of Northampton.
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That's why I deleted the post. The first site I looked at turned out to be way outdated compared to TJ's official website.
To date, TJ's has pretty good urban coverage. I don't see any large cities without one, but there are some mid-sized cities out there that don't.
Little Rock, AR
Savannah, GA
Augusta, GA
Mobile, AL
Greensboro, NC
Chattanooga, TN
Columbus, GA
Huntsville, AL
That's why I deleted the post. The first site I looked at turned out to be way outdated compared to TJ's official website.
To date, TJ's has pretty good urban coverage. I don't see any large cities without one, but there are some mid-sized cities out there that don't.
Little Rock, AR
Savannah, GA
Augusta, GA
Mobile, AL Greensboro, NC
Chattanooga, TN
Columbus, GA
Huntsville, AL
Actually Greensboro is getting one soon. Bear in mind neighboring Winston Salem has had one for many years though.
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