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Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Trader Joe's is overpriced Aldi. Their employees are told to smile, just like everywhere else you go that employees are always smiling. Nobody's that happy at work, and that shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody at this point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The frozen stuff is WAY better at TJs; my local Aldi has mostly stuff that’s cheap because it’s about to expire

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I want frozen garbage, I can buy it at any grocery store. No need to go to an overpriced place that leaves most of their floor space empty. I legit do not get trader joe's or why people like it. Easily have that place is just frozen crap, and the other half is random vegetables and candy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

My grocery store's frozen crap has never been as good, interesting, or inexpensive as it is at Trader Joe's. It's not that the stuff there is great or cheap, but there's a bit of variety that is harder to find in the Krogers and Safeways and they do switch things up so every few months there are new options. For me, between variety and C quality, vs the same basic American stuff and somewhere between F to B quality, I'll take the former. That's why I don't really get frozen stuff at Costco.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Trader Joe's is owned by the OTHER Aldi, which is related historically but entirely separate from the Aldi stores in the US.

Interestingly the US is the only country to have both companies other than Germany itself, and even there one is in one half of the country and the other in the other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Different brother. There's Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord (I think that's right), who have common family history but are now separate companies. One operates the US chain called Aldi and the other owns TJ's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Different aldis.