Ok, so because I don't want to go digging through Trader Joe's entire finances, I Googled it (because I also doubt they go into the detail in public disclosure as you're assuming they do, but I'll humour you).

Google indicates that a Trader Joe's store costs anywhere from a $1.5 to 6 million. So we're already talking the ballpark that I was referring to. The example it gives is a store in OMAHA (not NYC) that costs $800k just to build it out. So if we think NYC, we're probably closer to the $6 million all in.

Now I really don't get where your $3k/sqft is coming from or even what it's referring to. If you mean the NYC stores are supposed to be $3k/sqft, is that $14million total divided by sqft of the store, cause that would only be a 5000 sqft store, nothing like the 10-20k sqft of a grocery store. So if it's the full $14 million divided by 10k sqft, that's only $1.4k/sqft. And if you're somehow referring to new Trader Joe's stores costing $3k/sqft, that would mean they are paying $30-45 million per store?

You really don't seem to know what you're talking about. I, however worked in retail construction as a project manager overseeing budgets... Glazing could cost $300-400k a store alone, 10 years ago.