Trader Joe’s business practices

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15 April 2024, 01:14 AM

RealPlayer

Trader Joe’s business practices

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.

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15 April 2024, 02:33 PM

jodi

Well that’s pretty bad.

15 April 2024, 05:35 PM

rontuner

Ugh, I had no idea...

15 April 2024, 05:50 PM

AdagioM

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

15 April 2024, 05:55 PM

wtg

Spy vs. Spy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...erything/ar-BB1lxLz7

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16 April 2024, 07:58 AM

Mikhailoh

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

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16 April 2024, 08:29 AM

Piano*Dad

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.

16 April 2024, 10:41 AM

big al

The free market in action. The big fish continue to eat the little fish.

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16 April 2024, 03:44 PM

RealPlayer

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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16 April 2024, 07:55 PM

piqué

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.

17 April 2024, 06:23 PM

QuirtEvans

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.