![]() ![]() “I think we’re getting closer.”īedria added, “She (the executive) said to be sure to get back in touch with her by February to discuss and go over what their expansion plans area. “The biggest thing is putting in location requests before January,” Bedria said. “For all we know, they have tried to open a store in our area, but it just hasn’t worked out.”īedria said she was told that Trader Joe’s plans to count how many requests the chain gets for new locations at the end of the year and that the real estate committee will convene in early 2020 to make its recommendations. “She (the executive) said they can’t share any specifics without a signed lease,” Bedria said. However, when Bedria mentioned that tip to the Trader Joe’s executive, she said she was told, “That’s 100 percent not true.”īedria said she believes it is possible that Trader Joe’s has been considering potential sites in the Daytona Beach area, but “nothing is definite, like (the executive) said.” “An employee at the (Trader Joe’s) warehouse here messaged me saying that there was a promise from an executive that there were two stores opening in Florida, one in Miami and one in Daytona,” Bedria said. That would seem to confirm a tip Bedria said she received a few months ago. The executive confirmed that the chain plans to open two stores in the Sunshine State soon, but did not specify the cities. The “Open a Trader Joe’s in Ormond Beach” Facebook page has 3,700 followers.īedria said she was especially encouraged when the Trader Joe’s executive told her the chain “definitely wants more of a presence in Florida.” She noted that fans of the chain in Arkansas had created a Facebook page similar to Bedria’s that had 7,400 followers. That decision, according to the executive, came after the grocery chain received an impressive number of location requests via its website, Bedria said.īedria said she did not think to ask how many location requests Trader Joe’s received for the Little Rock location. “Though there are no guarantees, my source did share that the areas with the most requests and interest through this form DO gain more consideration and have a likeliness to be more seriously discussed” in an “in-depth” annual meeting the grocery chain’s site-selection committee holds, she wrote.īedria in a phone interview on Wednesday said the Trader Joe’s executive she spoke with, whom she declined to name, gave the example of a Trader Joe’s store that opened earlier this year in Little Rock, Arkansas. That form can be found online at /contact-us/location-request. “As confirmed directly from the source, the executives of Trader Joe’s real estate pull and tally every location/store request they receive,” Bedria wrote on a Facebook post. The executive offered her some encouraging words, while at the same time underscoring the chain has no firm plans at this time to open a store here, This past Tuesday, Bedria said she had a fairly lengthy phone conversation with a real estate executive for the California-based grocery chain. Her quest began in 2012 when she created a Facebook page called “Open a Trader Joe’s in Ormond Beach, Florida.” ![]() She continues to regularly make the nearly one-hour drive to the nearest Trader Joe’s store in Winter Park.īut Bedria believes she finally may have made a breakthrough this past week in her campaign to convince Trader Joe’s to open a store here. More than fours years after the opening of that distribution center along the east side of Interstate 95, Bedria is still waiting for a Trader Joe’s store closer to home. DAYTONA BEACH - Ormond Beach resident Jasmin Bedria was hopeful in 2015 that upscale grocer Trader Joe’s decision to open a regional distribution center here would lead to its adding a store as well. ![]()
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