Cypress: Trader Joe’s Opens

In Cypress, Texas, Trader Joe’s will open its much anticipated store in Cypress Friday, adding to dozens of new locations across the country in 2025 for the fun-loving California-based grocery chain. The date was revealed just a day before the opening on Trader Joe’s website.

Cypress residents no longer have to drive to The Woodlands or Katy to get their fix of TJ products such as Truffle Risotto or Peppermint Brookies.

The newly-built store at 9715 Towne Lake Parkway in the Towne Lake large-scale planned community represents the eighth Trader Joe’s in the Houston area and one more is on the way in Bellaire. The chain, which entered the Houston market with several stores in 2012, opened its Kingwood store at 600 Kingwood Drive on December 5.

Located near the intersection of Tuckerton Road and Barker Cypress Road behind Kroger, the Cypress store is in a growing area for homebuilding, southeast of the Bridgeland large-scale planned community. The store contains just over 15,000 SF, as stated by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

A fraction of the size of traditional grocery stores, Trader Joe’s stores are packed with unique private label products sourced from around the world at value prices. Shoppers will find new and seasonal products along with familiar favorites such Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel Nuggets.

Trader Joe’s stores in the Houston area range from about 9,500 SF to 17,000 SF. By comparison, the nearby Kroger, H-E-B, and Walmart stores in Cypress each top 100,000 SF.

Texas has been an expansion market for Trader Joe’s, which has 26 of the company’s more than 600 stores. Other new stores have opened recently in the Austin and San Antonio markets and one is coming soon to McKinney near Dallas.

This year’s growth comes on top of 34 store Trader Joe’s added across the country in 2024, including one local store in Sugar Land, as stated by the company. While the new Kingwood store was built in part of a former Randalls store, the Cypress Trader Joe’s was built from the ground up.

Also in Cypress, Walmart opened its first Supercenter to be built from the ground up in the U.S. in four years in April. The “Store of the Future” prototype with an improved layout and technology was the first in the country.