Offers made to the Internal Revenue Service The New York State Offer in Compromise Program is distinct from similar programs offered by the federal government. For example, the guidelines for the acceptance of offers differ.
There are currently 395 Trader Joe's locations in the United States. This is the total number of stores as of January 2013. Most Trader Joe's stores are located in the state of California.
Monrovia, California. Trader Joe's was born in 1958 as a small chain of Southern California convenience stores opened by a drugstore executive named Joe Coulombe. In 1967 he changed the stores' name from Pronto Markets to Trader Joe's and began to have employees wear Hawaiian shirts. In 1988 the growing grocery chain expanded from Southern California into Northern California, and by 1995 it had 70 stores in five Western states.