Photo by The West End.

Today’s scuttlebutt comes from the grocery aisle, with the Prince of Petworth publishing a rumor from one of his readers who overheard employees of the Trader Joe’s store in Foggy Bottom whispering that the trendy market is expanding to the intersection of 14th and U streets NW.

“Well it won’t be ‘official official until they issue a press release,” Dan Silverman wrote.

Well, one does not even need to wait for a press release. A customer-service representative at Trader Joe’s corporate headquarters in Monrovia, Calif. confirmed to DCist that a new location is in the works for the bustling U Street corridor.

“That location is on our list of places” targeted for expansion, the representative said, though cautioning that it will be at least another year before Mid-City residents start filling their reusable canvas grocery bags with boutique frozen dinners and Three Buck Chuck.

The tricky thing about Trader Joe’s is getting the company on the phone. It does not list a number on its website, and is famously press-averse. In 2010, Fortune called the niche grocery chain “obsessively secretive.”

But we were able to track down a working phone number for corporate headquarters in Monrovia and, after identifying the call as a media inquiry, were transfered to the customer-service line and asked the same question about the forthcoming store.

Trader Joe’s will likely go in at the JBG project known as Louis, which is consuming the southwest corner of the intersection. Last December, the City Paper’s Lydia DePillis was so sure of it, she even wagered a month’s shopping at Walmart if she was wrong. But it appears she was correct.