Trader Joes - The Exotic Healthy Alternative Grocery Store

July 25th, 2005 by leafworks

If you’re looking for a place to obtain healthy foods, exotic foods, and unique foods - Trader Joes is the key … fastly growing and with an intent on health consciousness, this unique new grocery outlet won’t disappoint you. It never does me …

Trader Joes
Upper Queen Anne Hill, Seattle (#135)
112 Galer Street
Seattle, WA 98119
(206) 378-5536
Between 1st Avenue W. and 2nd Avenue W.
http://www.traderjoes.com/locations/map/135.asp

Trader Joes is my favorite grocery store, though this location is not one of its better stores in the selection and space venue. Still, good enough for the fix I needed today. Trader Joes is a “Unique Grocery Store” with a unique selection of goods, groceries, and food stuffs from all over at very low prices. Originally a small outlet in California, it has quickly grown in popularity from coast-to-coast. When I live in a city where there is a Trader Joes, that’s the only place I shop. I of course grabbed some of my favorites for the camping venture this weekend: Vanilla soy milk, Chai, panang curry thai tuna, cashew butter, blackberry jelly, wheat bread, macadamian carmel popcorn, the famous $2.95/bottle wines, and other munchies. Rated: (storewide: 5 stars out of 5, this store: 4 out of 5)

“Trader Joe’s began in 1958 as a chain of convenience stores called “Pronto Marketsâ€? in the Los Angeles area. In 1967, the founder, Joe Coulombe, the original Trader Joe, wanted to expand the stores’ offerings and enhance their image. He doubled the floor space and offered hard-to-find, boutique domestic and imported wines and gourmet food items at outstanding prices. He decked out the stores with cedar plank walls and nautical dÃ©cor and garbed the Captain (the store manager), the First Mate (the assistant manager) and the Crew Members in colorful Hawaiian shirts. “Trader Joe’s” was born.
Currently Trader Joe’s has expanded to over 200 stores in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.” ~ Trader Joes website history.

leafworks wrote this on July 25th, 2005 and filed it under Healthy Living, Healthy Cooking, Healthy Eating, Health Foods, Vegetarian Cooking |