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[goldensrbest]

@Noel7, This long posting in which you keep posting what others say,i find that really is just too much to read.

[bewise]

I heard that TJ was connected to Aldi's,anybody know that answer?

[Noel7]

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@goldensrbest wrote:

@Noel7, This long posting in which you keep posting what others say,i find that really is just too much to read.

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@goldensrbest

Sorry, but to my knowledge there is no other way for it to come out with an iPad.

You could just skip it.  I assume you know you don't have to read it over and over if you are interested, just the last comment.

I mentioned I am having a Lupus flare and I am having trouble using my hand much on the desktop.  Sorry that affects you.

[Cakers3]

The only thing *I* see at Trader Joe's is minimal meat selections so in that sense perhaps some folks do not see it as a full grocery store.

Their dairy is full-egg, milk, etc.

Their produce is full with fruits and veggies although one may not find exactly what they want.

There are household products-TP, paper towels, cleaning supplies, and personal items such as toothpaste, lotions. etc.

Frozen foods run from breakfast to snacks to entrees to desserts.

Cereals, snacks, soda, alcohol-it's all there

I guess it just depends upon what one buys.

[momtochloe]

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@bewise wrote:

I heard that TJ was connected to Aldi's,anybody know that answer?

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@bewise I believe they are owned by the same parent company.  I love both stores and shop both often.  I won't have any other ketchup in the house besides TJ's, the best I have ever had!

[Noel7]

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@momtochloe wrote:

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@bewise wrote:

I heard that TJ was connected to Aldi's,anybody know that answer?

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@bewise I believe they are owned by the same parent company.  I love both stores and shop both often.  I won't have any other ketchup in the house besides TJ's, the best I have ever had!

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Me, too!  I *love* their organic ketchup!

Hi @momtochloe 

[momtochloe]

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@momtochloe wrote:

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@bewise wrote:

I heard that TJ was connected to Aldi's,anybody know that answer?

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@bewise I believe they are owned by the same parent company.  I love both stores and shop both often.  I won't have any other ketchup in the house besides TJ's, the best I have ever had!

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Me, too!  I *love* their organic ketchup!

Hi @momtochloe 

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Tee hee, normally I am not that passionate about a condiment @Noel7 but that ketchup just knocks it out of the park for me . . . I know you are not feeling well right now my friend and I so hope for better times ahead for you in the very near future!

[Moonchilde]

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@stuyvesant wrote:

In my neighborhood, we fought the good fight to keep our neighborhood supermarket, and lost.

It is closing, and Trader Joe's is going to open in about a year.  I think it's their second (third?) store in Manhattan.  By the time these neighborhood killers get to New York City, they have their formula down pat.

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You're on the wrong track.  Trader Joe's is NOT a supermarket, nor do they sell brands you would find in a supermarket.

@stuyvesant

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The supermarket is closing so at least we'll have Trader Joe's.  Even if they are not a supermarket, at least they are something.  An expensive something, but something.

@Noel7

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@stuyvesant

They aren't expensive, their products are cheaper than big store brands.

They can't be the reason you lost your supermarket. My guess is your neighborhood will need a new supermarket, TJoe's isn't a substitute.

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They aren't the reason.  Trader Joe's is building a new store.  Some neighborhood stores burnt down several years ago (the beauty store was operating out of a barbershop for several years) and the other stores are just gone  (The pizza shop, the immigrants who bravely offered pork products to a customer base who loved them (AND against their own beliefs) and the guys who imported cheap little stuff at bargain prices.)  Trader Joe's is building on that now empty lot.  We tried for a long time to get these little stores back.  Our supermarket which is exactly across the street from this new constructiuon is closing down because they can't make their rent.  Also there may be some dorm construction.  We have to wait and see. 

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How awful for your neighborhood  But I don't understand your anger, calling TJoe's a neighborhood killer.  They are a fairly small store and neighborhoods are glad to get one, they offer alternative food at less cost.

@stuyvesant

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TJoe's (your phrase) is a fairly small store?  They took down multiple family owned businesses and are building, BUILDING, a new store on the empty block-long lot that remained after their bulldozers came through.  Morton Williams, which I understand is a big chain store, announced one day that they would take over Associated's lease, and the next day, after T'Joes announced they were coming, dropped out.  Supermarkets can't compete.

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@stuyvesant

You lost me.  TJoe's didn't take down your stores.  You said they burned down a few years ago.

Supermarkets don't compete with TJs.  They are different entities and TJs is smaller and less expensive than a supermarket.   You certainly don't have to go there.  

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The entire misplaced rant gets weirder and makes less sense with each post. 

[islandergirl]

I only have 5 of those 18 stores in my area (although Whole Foods is over 15 miles away), but I do agree that I always am impressed with the customer service at Trader Joe's here. 

[Moonchilde]

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@bewise wrote:

I heard that TJ was connected to Aldi's,anybody know that answer?

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They are owned by the same company. I'm bummed that so far I've missed out on Aldi's. They arrived in SoCal about 6 months after I moved north. I would love to have a chance to cruise one. From what I've read of what/how they sell I would enjoy it. There might be one about an hour north of me some day if the stores in general do well in CA, but not any time soon. 😕