desh ([personal profile] desh) wrote2003-09-05 05:54 pm
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To use one of my favorite journalistic throwaway words, the city was abuzz today! Why? Because a new Trader Joe's opened less than 2 blocks from here! Today!!! It's so cool, because it's like, um, like a health food supermarket! Only better!

Why is it better? I'm not entirely certain. But it was fun to shop there, and I'll probably go back a lot. As will half of the population of Center City, all of whom were there today. Not all at once, mind you, it wasn't THAT crowded there. But carrying a paper Trader Joe's bag today was a conversation starter among complete strangers. Everyone smiled and said how great it was, and isn't it amazing that no one in the city went food shopping all week because of this?

I collect these. Anything that makes perfect strangers want to talk to each other is cool to me.
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Riiiiight...the "Solar System"

[identity profile] bumonyou.livejournal.com 2003-09-05 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, had I been in town, I'd'a been there...no. I've been to trader joe's in CA, and yeah, my take on it was that its just another fru fru health food store. Cut me a break. The city needs several big reasonable supermarkets in walking distance from its denizens, not another fro-gro, or its ilk. Was it>Fro-Gro or was it<Fro-Gro? (or as I like to call it: Super-Gross)

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[identity profile] bumonyou.livejournal.com 2003-09-06 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Gadzooks! This madness, its...its contagious! Bloody literature

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[personal profile] desh 2003-09-06 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Totally better than Fro-Gro, if you ignore the stuff that TJ doesn't even try to compete with. Example: TJ has no staffed counters (deli, fish, etc). On the stuff that they both have, TJ seems to be better and MUCH cheaper. And very different.
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