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There is a new Trader Joe's on the Sunset Strip at Crescent Heights in the old Virgin Megatore Complex. It's been open almost a month--since March 13th to be exact. 
This afternoon at Trader Joe's | Lisa Borodkin/LAist
A visit around lunchtime proved the store to be nearly empty.
"People who work there say it is never crowded, as even the neighbors don't seem to know it's open yet," LAist Contributor Lisa Borodkin said in an e-mail from her cell phone.
The popular grocery chain recently opened a storefront in Westwood Village and is planning a large location on Olympic at Barrington in West LA. The well-established Sherman Oaks location was known as storefront with the highest Los Angeles area customer count.
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there's going to be one on Olympic & Barrington by the Ralphs.
Thanks for reading the whole post
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Olympic & Barrington is a horrible location. Anyone that lives near there would never go to that side of the 405 from 4-7pm on weekdays.
ugh, i agree! i'm not even sure which street moves slower between 4 and 8pm, barrington or olympic. but maybe that's the point -- all the frustrated commuters will end up in the Trader Joes parking lot, waiting out rushhour(s) with Two-Buck Chuck.
The one on Sunset/Crescent Heights is like nothing I've ever seen!! Wide isles OMG, wide isles! People were walking around in amazement as if shopping was a form of zen. Of course this makes 3 Trader Joes in almost a linear mile and a half.
omg i love this trader joe's. it's right down the hill from my house and free parking.
now it looks like the secret is OUT!
When they open the one on Hollywood and Vine, they will have more locations in a five mile radius than Ralphs.
If anyone with TJ's is reading this, open one downtown and I'll never shop at Ralph's again.
not to be all snarky quarrygirl, but if its right down the hill from your house why is free parking important for you?
haha, no that's a good question. i live up a very treacherous hill. i couldn't walk down w/o getting killed.
ah ok. =)
the only hassle is parking on P3 three levels down...so, its fine when you need to load your weekly groceries but, if you just need a few items...and want to jump in and out...you'll need to walk to the store. Slowly we are becoming a walking neighborhood...I walk everywhere...subway, bars, shops and now grocery store...its awesome!
Yeah, but it's kind of an out-of-the-way location. The parking and the design of the plaza make it really hard to get to, and people who live in the hills aren't going to walk. My friend was transferred to the Starbucks in that plaza and since CPK left, NO ONE goes in there. Especially not in the morning. No one knows there's anything inside there at all, despite the seemingly prominent sunset/crescent heights location.
I guess it's good for individuals that it's never busy, but probably not for the businesses. I live within walking distance of the TJs on Santa Monica/Poinsettia, so I go to that one. You just have to time it right. Within an hour of opening on the weekends, it's packed. Around 10:30, there's no one. And it probably stays slow until the afternoon rush, followed by the people coming in before close to buy a bunch of beer. And forget going after work on a weekday.
wonder if i'll live to see the day they open a store in south la.
There was a Westward Ho market in that complex when it originally opened. Actually, I think the first tenants were Virgin, Laemmle, and Westward Ho. I remember going to a movie and then deciding to pop into the market for something and I thought I had walked onto a film set. There were ZERO customers. When I walked down the one of the aisles, the shelves were stocked in a perfect linear fashion, like nothing had been touched. When I went to check out, 4 workers hovered around me - happy to be able to even pretend to do something, I guess. It was actually very creepy - like a "Twilight Zone" episode or something. I wasn't surprised when it went out of business there a short time later. I remember mentioning it to someone who lived in the neighborhood and he surmised that no one wants to park underground to buy groceries (as others have mentioned here). I hope TJ's doesn't suffer the same fate, though - it rocks.