Interesting bit of history of Aldi, the owner of Trader Joe. The grocery chain was founded by two brothers. They could not get along, so they decided to split the world to “Aldi North” and “Aldi South” chains. Both use the same logo.
Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
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#42Trader Joe's presents an interesting punctuation problem. The most common rule, I think, for forming possessives is rule #1 of Strunk and White: "Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant." But Trader Joe's already has an apostrophe. Should the proper writing of this headline should have been...
Where in the World are Trader Joe's's Warehouses?
Or should it have been...
Where in the World are Trader Joes's Warehouses?
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#43Back in the nineties a very popular East Lansing supermarket announced they were closing. A campaign was raised to get Trader Joes to locate in the space. A major campaign was raised and they gathered a pretty amazing 20-25,000 signatures online. The organizers got a nice letter back from Trader Joes who said they really appreciated their enthusiasm but the East Lansing area was too small a municipal area for a Trade…
TJs is the bomb. But their choice of store placement is definitely cryptic. It always seems to be a little too far for a regular grocery trip; somewhere close to a hip strip, close to a blue collar neighborhood, but not quite walking distance from either. They have a very specific demographic and I'm sure they've been making shrewd property decisions as well. Here in Oregon they have to compete with New Seasons, whic…
I've never had a great experience with GroceryOutlet and don't understand how they operate or even have a franchise model.
But my experiences are from the Seattle Area south to Oregon.
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#44Funny thing. The author now has a Trader Joe’s in his hometown.
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#45Trader Joe’s is a favorite study in trying to explain how it manages to thrive with just a small number of SKUs (~4000) relative to typical grocery stores that carry 50,000 SKUs. Perhaps this might shed light on their warehousing strategy.
Easy. You don't need ten different types of butter, yogurt, tea, etc. You can grab the single TJ branded item and have a reliable indicator it's reasonably healthy, tasty, and a good value with minimal margin.
It flips the script - make the store brands the central offering, with big names as a sideline.
Another thing I've seen is that a product might appear only once in a while, but is never discontinued - it's in rotation with other products. I've seen this a lot with frozen goods. That gives them a way to offer variety without having zillions of SKUs in stock at any given time.
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#46Trader Joe's presents an interesting punctuation problem. The most common rule, I think, for forming possessives is rule #1 of Strunk and White: "Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant." But Trader Joe's already has an apostrophe. Should the proper writing of this headline should have been... Where in the World are Trader Joe's's Warehouses? Or should it have been…
Trader Joe owns the stores, and he also owns the warehouses.
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#47Trader Joe's presents an interesting punctuation problem. The most common rule, I think, for forming possessives is rule #1 of Strunk and White: "Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant." But Trader Joe's already has an apostrophe. Should the proper writing of this headline should have been... Where in the World are Trader Joe's's Warehouses? Or should it have been…
"Trader Joe's" could also be being used as an adjective in this headline right?
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#48Back in the nineties a very popular East Lansing supermarket announced they were closing. A campaign was raised to get Trader Joes to locate in the space. A major campaign was raised and they gathered a pretty amazing 20-25,000 signatures online. The organizers got a nice letter back from Trader Joes who said they really appreciated their enthusiasm but the East Lansing area was too small a municipal area for a Trade…
I get the sentiment: I was very excited to have an Aldi store being built near me. Great value for money and an almost “grab what you need and you wont get a shock at the till” unlike other stores that do stuff like 2 slightly different tomato varieties one double the price of the other. Another example the coke is always a good price. Other supermarkets keep rotating the 24 and 30 packs prices to pretend there is a…
My one and only experience with shopping at Aldi was nearly rotten fruit, off-brand cardboard-tasting cereal and stale chips. The price is hard to beat, but I feel too much like a raccoon digging in a dumpster.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah ordering online is sweet in this regard
To me the downside of online ordering is I always feel the need to tip extravagantly to make sure the delivery person doesn't get me rotten tomatoes. It ends up being a lot more expensive than just putting on a mask and trundling down to the market. If I'm in the middle of work I can justify it. I used to enjoy going to the market. (Well, and a lot of other things that aren't fun anymore).
I don't think the delivery person has any influence on your produce - at least in the UK, pickers and delivery people are separate jobs, and I can't imagine it any different in any efficient organization. (Also nobody I knows tips for delivered groceries in the UK - the delivery charge is supposed to pay for the delivery. This might be different in the US like all things tipping.)
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#50I like the model he created to "detect" the warehouses, but it's much easier to see the corporations via the state corporation agency. There is also the idea that They wouldn't have pure warehouses for everything and are direct white labeled direct from manufacturers.