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Article: Foodies' paradise; Nearby appearance of gourmet store chain feeds the grocery shopper's appetite for cheap adventure
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- The Sun - Naperville (IL)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2001
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Kathie Wheater Damm, right, shops with her children Emma, left, and Aaron at the new Trader Joe's grocery store in Glen Ellyn. The store offers an eclectic blend of world foods along with the company's own line of products.
Fasten your seat belt.
It's going to be an unusual trip to the supermarket.
For one thing, the stock people all are decked out in Hawaiian shirts.
And they're not called staff; they're the crew.
The manager is called the captain.
For another, there's a woman over there in a kiosk that resembles a grass hut, wearing similarly tropical attire, who does nothing all day except invent and prepare dishes, using ingredients found in the aisles of the store, for the patrons to ...