Fortune Magazine recently did a piece all about Trader Joe’s stores. The grocery store is one that has a ton of business secrets and is also relatively popular among company loyalists. Fortune magazine revealed several secrets about the $8 billion company. The company, which built it’s first store in Pasedena California in 1967, is famous for only having the very best products and deals. For instance customers know that if there is only one brand of ketchup on the shelves, it must be the very best. Trader Joe’s stores stand behind only the products they feel are the best, and do not put poor quality items on their shelves. Typical grocery stores stock well over 50,000 different items, while Trader Joe’s stores only stock approximately 4,000 different items.

The store which has the majority of their locations in California, does in fact have dozens of locations throughout the rest of the country as well. A complete list of all Trader Joe’s store locations can be found at http://www.traderjoes.com/pdf/locations/all-llocations.pdf