Trader Joe's comes to the Carolinas....and the crowd goes nuts.

We just had the grand opening of our new Trader Joe's here in town yesterday and it was sumpin. You would think folks here had never been inside a grocery store before. People cheering. People doing "the wave." People hugging each other because they could get (almost) Two-Buck Chuck.

But mostly excitement involving a lot of recent Charlotte newbies who were used to shopping at TJ's where they formerly lived and now felt that Charlotte had joined at least the 1980's.

Don't get me wrong. I love Trader Joe's as much as the next ovo-lacto-organo-vegan health nut. None of which I am, btw. But I guess it says something for a town that is trying so hard to be a big fish...a city that is working so hard to be on the map, that when little things like a store opening "puts us on the map", you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Oh, yeah. We're getting an IKEA next year.

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