{"id":615,"date":"2006-01-18T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/backwater_no_more_two-buck_chuck_is_on_the_way.html"},"modified":"2006-01-18T10:59:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T18:59:44","slug":"backwater_no_mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/backwater_no_mo.html","title":{"rendered":"Backwater No More, Two-Buck Chuck Is On The Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City may have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirednewyork.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=4057\">eight Vermeers<\/a> but it had no Trader Joe&#8217;s . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/18\/dining\/18joes.html?ex=1295240400&#038;en=440d64795beb2b82&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">until now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The specialty grocer Trader Joe&#8217;s will open a store near Union Square in about three months, a spokeswoman said yesterday, confirming a year&#8217;s worth of reports that the national chain would join a growing list of food stores along 14th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Trader Joe&#8217;s, based in Monrovia, Calif., is best known for low-priced groceries and prepared and frozen foods. About 80 percent of what it sells carries the Trader Joe&#8217;s label. A little more than a third of its merchandise is fresh, but also packaged.<\/p>\n<p>It is also known for selling cheap Charles Shaw wine, known as Two-Buck Chuck because it sold for $2 a bottle when it was first offered.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which has 250 stores in 19 states, will open at 142 East 14th Street, with a separate wine shop next door at 138 East 14th Street. It has 19 stores in the New York area, but none in New York City.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City may have eight Vermeers but it had no Trader Joe&#8217;s . . . until now: The specialty grocer Trader Joe&#8217;s will open a store near Union Square in about three months, a spokeswoman said yesterday, confirming a year&#8217;s worth of reports that the national chain would join a growing list of food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}