Best Yes, We're Going to Talk About a Nonlocal Store Because People Have Been Asking For It For So Damned Long
Trader Joe's Comes to Boise
Staff Pick
Yes, we know we're bending our own rule about focusing on only local businesses, but when one business has been the subject of full-on campaigns by locals asking them to, "please, please, pretty please come to Boise" for years on end finally sets up shop in the City of Trees, we have to mention it. So, Trader Joe's, what took so long?
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