Trader Joes...new stores

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marsha-tbay

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This came from their emailing today. Fla. has to be next, now that they're into Georgia.

Williamsburg Va

5000 Settler's Mkt Blvd

Richmond Va

11331 W Broad St, Ste 161

San Jose CA

7250 Bollinger Rd

Brooklyn NY

130 Court St

Huntington Bch CA

21431 Brookhurst St

Charlotte NC

1133 Metropolitan Ave

Atlanta (buckhead)

3183 Peachtree Rd

Oak Park IL

483 N Harlem Ave

Warwick RI

1000 Bald Hill Rd

Nashville TN

3909 Hillsboro Pike

 
Literally hundreds of people from here (Yuma, AZ) wrote to them.

T.J's got irritated and stopped sending polite replies to letters and e-mails and sent a letter to the local newspaper and told them to let people know that they do not have us on their future sites list.

 
I personally think they have a real attitude smileys/frown.gif...I've written 2 letters; they responded to the

first one and ignored the 2nd one.

Michael in Phoenix was nice to let me know they wouldn't put one in Fla. until they had a distribution center nearby.

At that time there was none in Georgia. So I'm hopeful now, though not holding my breath!

 
Years ago there was a TJ's in a nearby town. . .

But they closed the store in a couple of years. Then they opened a new store in the next town over.

An employee of the new store said they closed the old one because it was not making enough money. The quote I seem to remember is that a store had to make mucho-mondo bucks or it would be closed. And if they were going to open a new store, it whould have to be pretty much assured of making mucho-mondo bucks also.

Mebby stores in the towns of which you speak could not be guarranteed to make the big bucks?

 
and addendum: hundreds of people could not guarrantee. . .

the money that the store would need to be kept open--unless they could all spend several hundred thousand each! Or more!

 
Yesterday's St. Petersburg Times said that Trader Joes is looking at south FL.

I'm crossing my fingers that "South" really means in the Sarasota area...where I'm moving to on Sept. 11th.

 
TJ attitude...

I totally agree with this. They're getting a little full of themselves. I was having all kinds of problems with expired items (vitamins, molded cheeses, also packages of frozen fish that were not sealed and were opening). I talked to the store manager and they acted as if I was annoying them. I wrote to the company and received NO reply. Next time I shopped, I had an extra cart and I pulled every expired item I found and put it in the cart. I had about 50 assorted containers of vitamins (some of them over a year past the expiration date!), molded cheeses a week or more past the expiration date, stale bread past the date, etc. I wheeled the cart to the manager when I was ready to leave, explained that I tried to talk with them about it and got no response, wrote to the headquarters and got no response, so I decided to show them in a tangible way that would get their attention that they had a problem. I still am finding expired items. I don't know if this is just a problem in the store I shop at or what, but I examine the date on every single item I purchase there now, without fail. Caveat emptor y'all.

 
According to an article in USA today, Plano is the most affluent city in US with a

population of 250,000 or more. That should be good enough for Trader Joe's.

 
While on the subject of TJ's, I would like to announce my latest addiction: Mushroom Turnovers,

frozen, in the appetizer section. They're little mouthfuls of cream cheese dough filled with sauteed mushrooms and onions. Pop them frozen in a toaster oven and you have hors d'oeuvres in 15 minutes.

They may have been there all along, but I just discovered them this summer.

 
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