The first Trader Joe's opened in 1967 and began selling wine under its own label.
Although Trader Joe's plans to open 20 to 25 stores a year, it does not expect to please everyone.
Today, the theater is home to a Trader Joe's grocery store.
If Trader Joe's sets up shop down the street, he said, the companies will be intense competitors.
Trader Joe's grocery store opened in the neighborhood September 1, 2006.
At Trader Joe's, the proportion is close to 100 percent.
Berning retired from Trader Joe's in the middle of the 1990s.
About 80 percent of what it sells carries the Trader Joe's label.
Trader Joe's plans other stores soon in the city, if it can find equally agreeable landlords.
Trader Joe's frozen jasmine rice goes bad when the refrigerator dies.