Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
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Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
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Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#2I wish Trader Joe's would start a delivery service since they don't partner with delivery vendors like Instacart. Great and unique selection of food!
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#4I wish Trader Joe's would start a delivery service since they don't partner with delivery vendors like Instacart. Great and unique selection of food!
It's especially baffling because TJs deliberately keeps a fairly small number of SKUs, so it is actually much better placed for online orders than more traditional grocery stores that have 12 kinds of Cheerios.
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#5The author ends their analysis a little early, which is a shame, because it is a fun but also very interesting research question.
Next step would be to plot the known/suspected warehouses and give an error measurement for the best predicted locations against those more or less known warehouses.
Further steps could be to look into a pattern of how those known/suspected warehouses are placed in relation to stores, and extrapolate that into the missing warehouse locations.
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#6I really enjoy this site's design. At first I thought that LocalCDN was blocking some CSS/JS but to my surprise, no - it just looks that way. I like it.
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#7It should be noted that it is a project from 2015.
But just looking at the clusters, esp. on the east coast and look at the marked known locations one can visually see that the 22 clusters don't make sense. You can visually cluster a lot of stores towards the existing warehouses and remove the need for the estimated ones in between.
But still this is an interesting approach as it helps in identifying the clusters that seem to be served by these known warehouses.
Maybe not taking the distance as the crow flies, but trying a street route could be an optimization. And then trying to find the minimal amount of clusters that still show the known locations at roughly the center.
Not sure if this would be a valid approach.
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#8Back 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 Trader Joes but if that criteria changed they'd keep us in mind. A number of the group years later kept the campaign going and maintained an active Facebook page.
A couple of months ago Trader Joes announced an East Lansing store in that very strip mall they'd turned down decades earlier. Different store but the exact same development.
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#9I wish Trader Joe's would start a delivery service since they don't partner with delivery vendors like Instacart. Great and unique selection of food!
It's especially baffling because TJs deliberately keeps a fairly small number of SKUs, so it is actually much better placed for online orders than more traditional grocery stores that have 12 kinds of Cheerios.
I think online ordering would just be too far outside their wheelhouse. I don't know what improvements they have made over the years, but when I used to work there years and years ago they were very much a human-driven company. By that I mean that ordering was done entirely manually by people that specialized in their sections, inventory tracking was rather loosely done, and the customer question of 'do you have any of X in the back' would need to be answered by actually checking in the back.
From my experience on the customer side since, things haven't changed much at all. In light of that, I think that even now, online ordering for them would be a mess that the company just can't afford in customer goodwill.
Re: Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
#10Clever, but the guesses aren't useful, because "the middle" is rarely the most efficient place to get goods off trucks and rail. I know the TJs in Kansas are stocked from a Kansas Aldi distribution center, near rail and highways.
A better start might be mapping known Aldi warehouses.
https://careers.aldi.us/employment/olathe-warehouse-jobs/61/...