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95 points

Trader Joe’s, aldi, and small private stores from now on. Go fuck yourselves Kroeger.

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I only have one smaller chain grocery store in my area, and it’s half snake oil targeted to old hippies. It’s also three to four times as expensive because old hippies apparently have money?

I wish we would get an Aldi’s.

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2 points

Right because this won’t spread…

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15 points

Aldi is so rad and they have the best chocolate.

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Those chocolate peanut butter cups are crack. I’m sad that people at my location have realized that, because they are sold out a third of the time.

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10 points

That Burnt Caramel Sea Salt though. The best!

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If ethical reasons are a concern, you might want to avoid Trader Joe’s as well on account of their union busting activities.

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Traitor Joe’s is more like it

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They’re also one of the companies trying to destroy the NLRB.

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AND they actively steal small brand recipes and ideas, then have a contract manufacturer churn it out at a cheaper price.

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Curious as to what the union’s demands are. It’s my impression that Trader Joe’s treats their employees relatively well. I have multiple friends who work for them and are paid a living wage (in the Bay Area of all places) for working reasonable hours.

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If a company genuinely cares about their employees, they’d support them unionizing.

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I hear you. I agree that union busting is bad. I support trader joes employees unionizing. I don’t want their stores to close and those employees to be out of a job.

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Any employer that’s a union buster deserves to be boycotted until they close and something better comes along to fill the need (which it will do quickly). In truth, the grocery supply chain/warehousing being so strongly coupled with the supermarkets is the primary point of inertia in the US regarding grocery stores opening where they’re needed. Most independent distributors only focus on restaurant contracts, because they can achieve higher margins there.

Edit: Not that coop distribution doesn’t exist. For example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Wholesale_Grocers who are represented by the teamsters in four of their distribution centers.

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