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Someone on a local group posted this article alleging shady business practices at TJ’s. At some level this “copy-catting” is something many businesses do, but maybe this is at another level.

We Need To Talk About Trader Joe’s


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Well that’s pretty bad.


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Ugh, I had no idea...


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I know there are two sides to every story, but this sounds plausible…and terrible.


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The consumer goods business is rife with this sort of thing. It's very cutthroat.


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That's an excellent bit of muckraking by that writer! Anyone who might be considering negotiating with TJ's is now on notice.

I would hope that that form of "inspiration" for TJ's now fully dries up. The customer base probably won't much care and only a small fraction will probably have read the article. But the small emerging vendors are now fully informed. Any of them that want to continue trying to "expand" via TJ's have no one to blame if they find their product appropriated by that firm.

Not a TJ's shopper here. I've never really liked the place the few times I have walked in.
 
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I suspect the small local brands can work a better deal with places like Whole Foods. Here I know they carry product from a dozen small coffee roasters.


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what PD said. we don't have a trader joe's here and i don't eat that kind of stuff anyway. i don't like the costco private label pre-prepared foods, either. i think this story should get more play so that more people know about it. a nice piece of muckraking, indeed.


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I can’t speak to their business practices, but we know people who work there, and shop there regularly. They treat their employees well and they seem happy to be there. The staff is uniformly the most friendly and helpful of any nationwide franchise.

And they make great frozen soup dumplings.
 
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