Trader Joe's to open 12 new stores, following 13 in December

Trader Joe’s took an unexpected spotlight in December’s Supermarket News monthly store map, opening 13 locations across the U.S., and the expansion doesn’t stop there for small-format grocery chain—the grocer’s website says a dozen more are opening soon.

The rapid number of store openings in December comes close to rivaling that of its sister chain Aldi, which opened 22 locations for the month, according to Scrapehero.com.

For December, Scraphero recorded 125 store openings and 58 store closings. More than 70% of the store closings were pharmacies—CVS with 23, Walgreens with 12, and Rite Aid with six.

Dollar General and Dollar Tree dominated in store openings in December, registering 55 and 29, respectively. 

In addition to Trader Joe’s rapid expansion in December, the grocer’s website noted that a dozen more grocery stores are set to open soon. Three in California, two in Washington, and one each in Alabama, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.

AL.com, a news website in Alabama, published the full list of stores opening soon. 

Click through the slides to view the interactive maps.

Store Openings

Store Closings

Here’s a breakdown of how many stores opened or closed in each chain this past month:

Albertsons: 2 closed

Aldi: 22 opened; 1 closed

Costco: 1 opened

CVS: 1 opened; 23 closed

Dollar General: 55 opened

Dollar Tree: 29 opened; 3 closed

Kroger: 1 closed

Lidl: 1 opened

Publix: 1 closed

Rite Aid: 6 closed

Safeway: 2 opened; 1 closed

Save A Lot: 1 opened; 7 closed

Stop & Shop: 1 closed

Trader Joe’s: 13 opened

Walgreens: 12 closed

Also see our maps from October and November. 

This interactive look at the grocery landscape comes via a monthly partnership with ScrapeHero.com, a web scraping service firm that provides POI data scraped from the websites of retailers across the country.

ScrapeHero provides fully managed enterprise-grade web scraping services. The company provides complete data pipeline processing, from data extraction to custom robotic process automation and even building custom AI models from the data. This project is in no way intended to be a complete map of every grocery chain and only represents changes in store count based on what each grocer is reporting to the general public online.