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Old 12-15-2008, 10:04 AM
 
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Any fellow health minded pep's living in and around The Woodlands area?? I don't know about you but I am aching for a more "whole foods" minded grocery to frequent!

I don't want to eat GMO's, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hydrogonated Oils, food-like products, strange and unpronouncable ingredients! I want healthier options. Here is what I did to change my predicament...

Reach out to both Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. Tell them how you feel. Go to the websites below and submit location requests!

Visit:
Whole Foods Market: Natural and Organic Grocery (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/company/contact_submit.php - broken link)
Welcome to Trader Joe's - Your Neighborhood Grocery Store - Contact Us:Location Requests (http://www.traderjoes.com/location_requests_form.aspx - broken link)

We can't wait for them to come to us. We can all go to them.
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Old 12-15-2008, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Any fellow health minded pep's living in and around The Woodlands area?? I don't know about you but I am aching for a more "whole foods" minded grocery to frequent!

I don't want to eat GMO's, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hydrogonated Oils, food-like products, strange and unpronouncable ingredients! I want healthier options. Here is what I did to change my predicament...

Reach out to both Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. Tell them how you feel. Go to the websites below and submit location requests!

Visit:
Whole Foods Market: Natural and Organic Grocery (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/company/contact_submit.php - broken link)
Welcome to Trader Joe's - Your Neighborhood Grocery Store - Contact Us:Location Requests (http://www.traderjoes.com/location_requests_form.aspx - broken link)

We can't wait for them to come to us. We can all go to them.
Why dosen't Texas have a Trader's Joe??? I think they took those "fattest cities" list seriously because Chicago or New York city don't have one neither.
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Old 12-15-2008, 11:35 AM
 
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Maybe these stores do not feel that The Woodlands does not have a large enough upper income bracket, nor large percentage of physical fitness junkies that the inner loop possesses. Additionally, they are building another Whole Foods at Waugh and Dallas, 3 or so miles from the Whole Foods on Upper Kirby. It appears that Whole Foods concentrates on urban centers although the West Side has a Whole Foods I have heard. Maybe in due time, The Woodlands will get one.
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Old 12-15-2008, 11:42 AM
 
Location: where nothin ever grows. no rain or rivers flow, TX
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Maybe these stores do not feel that The Woodlands does not have a large enough upper income bracket, nor large percentage of physical fitness junkies that the inner loop possesses. Additionally, they are building another Whole Foods at Waugh and Dallas, 3 or so miles from the Whole Foods on Upper Kirby. It appears that Whole Foods concentrates on urban centers although the West Side has a Whole Foods I have heard. Maybe in due time, The Woodlands will get one.
funny guy.
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Old 12-15-2008, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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The demographics aren't right for a Whole Foods/Trader Joe's to do well. Especially in this economy.
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:11 PM
 
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The demographics aren't right for a Whole Foods/Trader Joe's to do well. Especially in this economy.
In The Woodlands, I can see your point. But Trader Joe's would clean up inside the loop or in Memorial. Like H&M, it has reached near-cult status among those who follow retail. All I can guess is that they feel more comfortable in the markets they are in, and aren't ready to branch out to an known city, let alone another state with its own rules and regulations.
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:13 PM
 
Location: houston/sugarland
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Any fellow health minded pep's living in and around The Woodlands area?? I don't know about you but I am aching for a more "whole foods" minded grocery to frequent!

I don't want to eat GMO's, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hydrogonated Oils, food-like products, strange and unpronouncable ingredients! I want healthier options. Here is what I did to change my predicament...

Reach out to both Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. Tell them how you feel. Go to the websites below and submit location requests!

Visit:
Whole Foods Market: Natural and Organic Grocery (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/company/contact_submit.php - broken link)
Welcome to Trader Joe's - Your Neighborhood Grocery Store - Contact Us:Location Requests (http://www.traderjoes.com/location_requests_form.aspx - broken link)

We can't wait for them to come to us. We can all go to them.

Your just another woodland's resident looking to burn some money. And besides your jealous that Sugar Land got a brand new Whole Foods grocery store and the Woodland's didnt
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:21 PM
 
Location: Lake Arlington Heights, IL
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Why dosen't Texas have a Trader's Joe??? I think they took those "fattest cities" list seriously because Chicago or New York city don't have one neither.
Not true. Plenty Trader Joe's in Chicago area. Demographics of Arlington Heights seem similar to TW's and we have a Trader Joes.
I looked on Trader Joe's website and it looks like a distribution problem. Nothing in the central part of the country. No Aldi's in Texas either and I believe they are same parent company and share distribution. Looks like they are expanding east from CA and AZ so perhaps in a couple of years they will come. Between DFW, Houston, Austin and San Antonio they should have excellent demographics to build a warehouse that can centrally serve all these cities.
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:23 PM
 
Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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Not true. Plenty Trader Joe's in Chicago area. Demographics of Arlington Heights seem similar to TW's and we have a Trader Joes.
I looked on Trader Joe's website and it looks like a distribution problem. Nothing in the central part of the country. No Aldi's in Texas either and I believe they are same parent company and share distribution. Looks like they are expanding east from CA and AZ so perhaps in a couple of years they will come. Between DFW, Houston, Austin and San Antonio they should have excellent demographics to build a warehouse that can centrally serve all these cities.
I think someone mentioned on here or a similar message board that shall remain nameless... ahem... a while back that they had plans to open an Aldi's or build a distribution center in DFW. I don't know if it ever happened...

Edit: I used my Google-fu, and there's talk of a distribution center in Denton or the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, with stores opening in Dallas next year. Either way, it sounds like a definite possibility. Hopefully Trader Joe's is soon to follow!

I wonder where in Texas they would open a Trader Joe's first, though? Whichever city has the fewest Whole Foods?
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Old 12-15-2008, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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In The Woodlands, I can see your point. But Trader Joe's would clean up inside the loop or in Memorial. Like H&M, it has reached near-cult status among those who follow retail. All I can guess is that they feel more comfortable in the markets they are in, and aren't ready to branch out to an known city, let alone another state with its own rules and regulations.
Yeah, I meant The Woodlands. West Houston has a Whole Foods and that's direct competition for the Memorial Area. Also the new one that's going in on Post Oak. But some kind of specialty would do well in the new CityCentre.

ITL you have a Whole Foods and a Central Market.

PS- What is H&M?
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