September 2026

One Year In: What Bee Cave’s Trader Joe’s Actually Changed

Last October, Bee Cave got something a lot of Austin suburbs had been asking for: its own Trader Joe's. It opened at 12812 Shops Parkway, tucked into the Shops at the Galleria next to PetSmart, and it was the chain's first location outside Austin's city limits. Almost a year later, it's worth talking about, not because it's new anymore, but because of what it did to that whole corner of Bee...