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Don’t expect another Trader Joe’s store in the Richmond region for at least two years.

The fast-growing specialty food chain already has a store in the Short Pump Station shopping center along West Broad Street, which opened in 2008.

“At this time, an additional Richmond-area store is not in our two-year plan,” said Alison Mochizuki, the chain’s director of public relations.

That’s probably unwelcome news for those Chesterfield County residents who wanted Trader Joe’s to take over the former Martin’s Food Markets store in the Sycamore Square Shopping Center.

Martin’s vacated that spot this month when it opened a new 74,000-square-foot store on Midlothian Turnpike at Charter Colony Parkway that is nearly twice as big as the Sycamore Square store.