SFist: Careful What You Stick In Your Mouth

mattymatt

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:12:30 -0800

I think TJ's has opted for the convenience of having pre-packaged produce -- it's a faster assembly line if cashiers don't have to weigh things and check for the codes on the little stickers.

Rain

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:58:12 -0800

Why can't they just have stuff sitting in bins unwrapped, like at other grocery stores? (Preferably not below where they are changing ceiling tiles.)

mattymatt

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:32:07 -0800

TJ's locations are INCREDIBLY inconvenient. I joined CityCarShare exclusively so that I could drive to TJ's on Geary -- there's no good way to get to either store other than by car. That's mostly Muni's fault. The packaging does seem a bit materially wasteful. But it's hard to check the quality of produce unless it's in a transparent container.

Rain

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:01:52 -0800

I haven't been to Trader Joe's in about a year; not out of protest, just out of its inconveniance for me. But I'm wondering, do they still package their vegetables in plastic, paper AND saran wrap? That always seemed ridiculously un-green for a store that at least APPEARS to care about such things...

guest

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:00:45 -0800

So the complaint is that the owner is rich and European? Where are people supposed to shop then, at the corner store? I'm not giving up my two buck Chuck. No way, no how.

mattymatt

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:38:17 -0800

Why, that's an outrage! If I'm going to shop at an upper-crust food store, I want the owner to be 10th or above in global richness! I had no idea TJ's owner was so bourgeois. Twenty-second? Why, he might as well be a hobo. As for the last line of the above comment, I suspect that it's the opening of a dirty limerick.

guest

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:58:04 -0800

I used to be a big fan of TJ's too. That was before I learned they have the same owner as Aldi's which is Europe's answer to Wal*mart. TJ's is owned by Theo Albrecht who is the 22nd richest man in the world. There was an American named Joe (Coulombe), but he's been globalized.