Trader Joe's opening three new California stores in 2025 - here's where

LOS ANGELES - Trader Joe's is slated to open a dozen new locations in 2025, according to the grocery chain's website.

Three of those new stores are in California, while two more Trader Joe’s are coming to Washington state and the District of Columbia. The other five will be located in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, New York, Alabama and Maryland, according to Trader Joe’s.

They will add to the hundreds of stores that Trader Joe’s currently operates nationwide. 

Trader Joe’s is "growing at a pretty good rate right now, adding more and more stores," Tara Miller, the company's vice president of marketing, said in an October episode of the Inside Trader Joe’s podcast.

She also said the chain was "growing at a pace that we can sustain."

Co-host Matt Sloan said Trader Joe’s looks "where people are" as it determines sites to open a new store. 

"It could be an area where there is no currently available Trader Joe’s store," he said during the episode. "Although it might be an area that's really densely populated and traffic patterns are such that getting from one Trader Joe's to another neighborhood, it may be close, but it might take a really long time, that could be interesting."

Trader Joe’s opened four stores in December, according to its store openings page. Those sites were located in Milwaukie, Oregon; Vista, California; Palm Harbor, Florida; and Alpharetta, Georgia. 

The chain’s first store opened in 1967 in Pasadena.

FOX Business reached out to Trader Joe’s for comment.