Trader Joe's coming to Sarasota.............
How lucky we are..... I was @ Trader Joe's in Naples yesterday and it was a ZOO.....
The parking lot is way too small to accommodate their needs.... You would think they were giving food away free. I think I counted 8 people waiting to checkout at every register.......
The former Rooms To Go showroom on 41 South is a perfect location, with plenty of parking in the rear of the building.... It appears that it might also be a little larger then most Trader Joe's stores which is great....I must say that their prices are very low...
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HabaneroJane
Apr 29, 2012 04:35 PM
i frankly wasnt impressed by the selection at the naples trader joe's. I've been to several in California and the one in Naples seemed lacking to me. Maybe they were yet to receive their stock? Was on a recent Sunday, so perhaps.
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Happy Dance!!! I moved from Seattle to Florida in January, and am missing my Trader Joe's! We had them EVERYWHERE up in that area.........The only problem will be getting that frozen stuff home here in Clearwater without thawing...............hmmmmmmmmmm It will be WORTH the drive.......... (my mouth watering just thinking of all my fav's again)..........
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re: Mother of four
That would be even better. I did get on the Trader Joe's list of stores and it didn't say anything about where they were planning new stores. I really WISH they would offer Franchise's to people because I would open my own here, but they don't franchise out. They don't even have any stores in Hawaii, if you can believe it!
Now my mouth is really watering. They have the BEST Carne Asada in their organic meats sections. It makes the BEST Fajitas or taco''s
How far is Naples? LOL
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re: Slingerss
lax2mia
Mar 19, 2012 12:26 PM
Drove to the Naples location from Miami the weekend it opened. Bought tons of stuff, much of it refrigerated or frozen. Took a couple of coolers and after checking out at TJ's went to a nearby Walgreens and filled them up with ice. I intentionally bought some ice cream sandwiches (S'mores flavored that were delicious!) to test if things got too warm. Aside from the ice cream sandiwches slightly melting (as much as they would had I driven home from Publix with them) everything made it fine. Even arugula and pea shoots made it OK (the produces is a steal compared to Publix and there's items like blood oranges and meyer lemons that Publix doesn't even carry. I hate Publix). We've been enjoying the black bean taquitos and mango mochi for a few weeks now. Time to make another run soon!
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re: irwin
Already started to remodel!! Yea! I was in Naples on Monday, still a zoo but able to find a parking spot in front of the store. Came back with bags of goodies! I have never been to a TJ that had a ton of parking,, but always more then enough. Once the initial mad house is over with it will be fine. So close to me...maybe 15 min, will be wonderful not to have to drag down bags of stuff from up north in the Fall. If I'm not mistaken Naples is 22,000 SF and ours will be 17,000.
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re: Mother of four
Naples store is 14,000 sq ft., according to the original article, and ours is 17,000 sq. ft. That's pretty big for a TJ's isn't it? I've never been to one, but I'm a huge fan of ALDI already, and I know TJ is supposed to be a lot better - I love cheap gourmet and health food! We in Sarasota are so lucky to be here because we get so many great stores - I feel really spoiled!
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re: gypsyrose
Now all we need are some decent ready to ware stores! Dillard's is horrible to shop in, Macy's is Macy's, Saks is way too small, and that's about all our choices aside from small bouquets which don't seem to exist here.
The Naples store seemed to be fairly large, more like the newer one's that they have been opening, but 17,000 would be even better. None of the stores that I have been to have been very large.
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