February 14, 2014

Trader Joe’s shakes up natural market

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Ah, Trader Joe’s, we hardly know ye. But that soon will change.

Just when you thought Boulder couldn’t support yet another natural-grocery store, in comes Monrovia, California-based Trader Joe’s, which is opening at Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street retail center on Valentine’s Day. That same day will see the chain also open stores in Denver and Greenwood Village, with at least one other location in the works for Denver, and plans for a Fort Collins store.

Trader Joe’s joins a crowded natural-grocery scene in the Boulder Valley, which already boasts:
• Alfalfa’s, which maintains its flagship store…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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