Trader Joe's Opens 6 New Stores, Plans Underway For 9 More — Including In IL

Trader Joe’s is continuing to expand its footprint nationwide, opening six new stores and announcing plans for nine others, including in Illinois

Between early May and mid-June, the California-based grocery chain announced that stores had opened in West Palm Beach, Florida; New Orleans; Johns Creek, Georgia; Tucson; Woodinville, Washington; and McKinney, Texas, according to the company’s website.

Also in May, Trader Joe’s announced on its website that stores were “coming soon” to Chicago; West Jordan, Utah; Phoenix; Yonkers, New York; Quincy, Massachusetts; Sarasota, Florida; University Heights, Ohio; Syracuse, New York; and Farmington Hills, Michigan.

The new Chicago location will be at 804 W. Montrose Ave. in the Uptown neighborhood and will be the city's seventh Trader Joe's.

Earlier this year, in March, the company also announced an Oswego location would be coming to 1930 U.S. 34.

As of mid-June, there are 656 Trader Joe’s stores in the U.S., according to data company ScrapeHero, up from 631 in February. Nearly a third of current Trader Joe's locations — 208 stores — are in the company’s home state of California, ScrapeHero reported.

When Trader Joe's chooses to open a new store, it takes into account population density and draw, site access, traffic patterns and parking, marketing executives Tara Miller and Matthew Sloan said in a 2024 episode of the Inside Trader Joe’s podcast, according to the episode transcript.

“This is very deliberate, and for us, what's important is that it's controlled growth,” Sloan said in the episode, according to the transcript. “We have to grow in a way that fits our business model.”