Trader Joes

[esef]

todays supermarkets are a cluster fuck. i don't wanna shop for food in a walmart superstore enviornment.

i dig Trader Joes. i dig $2.99 bottles of wine. i dig meals i can throw in the oven and bake.
they may not be all over the country, but for those lucky enuff to have one, rejoice!

[CSquare]

actually, they're $2 bottles of wine aka 2 buck chuck. great store. good prices. good food. best market there is. that is when you can get a parking spot without smacking a yuppie.

by the way, their ahi tuna steaks are the bomb

[skahound]

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a walmart superstore enviornment.

I avoid Wal-Mart like cholera. The ones we have over this way are infested with the lowest rung of the lower class, both working there and shopping there. There was an interesting study that I recently read that talked about how the standard-of-living in a community declines as soon as a Wal-Mart opens in that community.

[FM]

^^^true dat. I go in there just to see how low the people really are at times...and man it's like rock bottom nearly.

In any event, there's one somewhat near me that opened a few months back...haven't gone to it yet, but heard nothing but great things, so I'll need to check it out one of these days.

[thesightless]

yup, trader joes is insane.

there is this place out here in long island called fariway that is awesome. like a normal supermarket until you go in and actually see that they make all the pasta in house to order. have thier own butcher shop where you can get anything from ground beef to filet. a coffe stand with over 50 types of coffe still in barrel, you pick it out they grind it. seafood place where you can order shit in advance like giant spider crabs or puffer fish(cut correctly). there are two of them in NYC as well.

http://www.fairwaymarket.com/Departments/overview.cfm?DID=7

[picklemonkey]

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a walmart superstore enviornment.

I avoid Wal-Mart like cholera. The ones we have over this way are infested with the lowest rung of the lower class, both working there and shopping there. There was an interesting study that I recently read that talked about how the standard-of-living in a community declines as soon as a Wal-Mart opens in that community.

Standard of living decelined?

OI dpm't go there cery oftej, ut hwen I do I wouldn'[t say that it representrs that the standard of living has delciened. It's the people, notthe buzsiness.

[esef]

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there was an interesting study that I recently read that talked about how the standard-of-living in a community declines as soon as a Wal-Mart opens in that community.

there's a shocker. that store and it's customers feed off each other like maggots on rotting meat. i didn't see that study, but i watched a prog on msnbc or cnbc (one of the news channels) bout the whole walmart phenomenon. also, fortune had a big story on the family two or three issues back.

[skahound]

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Standard of living decelined?

OI dpm't go there cery oftej, ut hwen I do I wouldn'[t say that it representrs that the standard of living has delciened. It's the people, notthe buzsiness.

The standard of living declines withing the community surrounding the store. It's not my study, it was performed by a group of professionals. Their theory was that in a way it became a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the fact that consumers, for the most part, want low prices. In order to obtain low prices you have to keep your overheard low, which includes the cost of labor. By and large, the people that are willing to work for the wages Wal-Mart is willing to pay (for support services) are people that lack education, single mothers, and people who need it as a 2nd or 3rd job. A FT job at Wal-Mart alone would hardly put you above the poverty line in the United States.

This contributes to the deterioration of the community around the Wal-Mart which ultimately pushes the 'good' of the community further away and invites even more 'low class' in.

[picklemonkey]

touche, skahjound..\ touche.

[cyrus32]

walmart freakin sucks! trader joe rules!

[blkcrow]

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Trader Joe's is great. Wal-Mart is run by Nazi's, ask krinkle.

[djrapture]

Yeah Trader Joe's is great, but I think I like Whole Foods even better! Damn good food, unfortunately it's not quite as cheap as TJ's...

[Pataky P]

Nice topic!!!I like it!!!

[Yao]

From what you've all written here, I'd say: introduce Trader Joe's in Europe...

[anonin]

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i fucking love trader joes, just got back from there got a pizza and some chocolate truffles mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm