EXCLUSIVE: ABC 4 being told Trader Joe's scouting for store in Utah


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Updated: 5/14/2012 10:23 pm | Published: 5/14/2012 6:55 pm
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - It looks like Utah may finally be about to land its very own Trader Joe's.

ABC 4 News is being told that the popular grocer has been in Salt Lake recently scouting potential store locations and that negotiations are "on-going."

According to our sources, Trader Joe's has been closely looking at several possible store locations for months.

These locations are said to include the 4th South, 7th East area in Salt Lake and maybe an area in Holladay

We're also told that negotiations are active and continuing.

Then there were some possible clues we found on Facebook.

On the Facebook page, “Trader Joe's Should Go the Distance...Salt Lake City,” we found an interesting post from someone claiming to be a Trader Joe's employee.

According to him, in a recent company bulletin, it reportedly asks who might be interested in re-locating and that one of the re-location sites is Salt Lake.

Another post is from someone claiming to have seen an internal Trader Joe's memo.

It also suggests Salt Lake is on the expansion list.

There are more than 3,600 members on this fast growing Facebook page.

Now, we did try to get a comment from Trader Joe's.

But we were told that there is nothing new to report.





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Return of B - 5/20/2012 2:23 PM
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It does actually have a lot to do with liquor, beer, and wine sales. Rier, the problem with the argument of other states/counties having equally or worse liquor laws is those states/counties are generally places nobody goes. Utah wants to be at the center of tourism, conventions, innovation, etc of the country but still has a giant noggin up its dairy air.

RierJ - 5/16/2012 12:50 PM
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Its got nothing to do with wine sales. That is a Utah myth. I have lived in other part of the country with more restrictive alcohol laws than Utah that have Trader Joes and where TJ's does not sell alcohol.

beccay10 - 5/15/2012 7:40 PM
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yeah they are never coming until they can sell their two buck chuck in the store. Fat chance, but I can dream!

sss13579 - 5/15/2012 1:06 AM
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I can't wait for them to come to Utah so I can look over their wonderful selection of wine. Oh wait...

iceman19730 - 5/14/2012 10:23 PM
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I am in the industry that would be bringing them to Utah, and i guarantee that they are not coming to Utah right now. We are one of the locations that they are rumored to scouting, and we have heard the rumors as well, but no one has confronted us from Trader Joes. The best we can figure is that a agent floated the rumor and it is not true.
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