Hey Trader Joe's owners,,,Don't be a dick! I'm not a large customer, but I can always stop shopping there. Very disappointing.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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I didn't realize 2024 was the year I was going to stop shopping at TJ's.
wow. Tjoes is just throwing its goodwill away by aligning with spaceX. Its to bad as I like them and aldis.
Yeah they frequently carry items no other grocer carries. Luckily I have a Sprouts nearby.
If people don't have the right to decide what their labor is worth, then they are no better than slaves.
These companies trying to do away with civilized negotiations, you'd think they want to go back to the bad old days when Labor got the bosses to come to the bargaining table by blowing shit up.
The end of our patronage of TJs.
I ended it when I can't find half the crap I want to eat consistently.
Wow so that kinda fuckin sucks. Guess I’m down to market basket.
What the F, TJ? Want to make a loyal customer of 15+ years quit? This is how you do it. We’re a union family, we vote with our dollars too.
There has been a push to unionize some TJ locations.
Here is an interview with one of the organizers from MA.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-below/id1713434162?i=1000634877458
Not all locations, such as my local one, are unionized. Hopefully there is some good progress soon since some lawsuits against the unions were tossed out of court late last year.
A TJ's in my area unionized last year. I went there and congratulated as many staff as I could find. You could tell which way they voted by their response to my good tidings. Most seemed to really appreciate the support.
Where are you gonna shop that's better? Kroger? Safeway? Walmart? Whole foods? It's fucked up.
Your local co-op?
Kroger and Safeway are unionized
My qfc has a sticker at the front door that says the staff is unionized, so I'm shopping always there.
More than the chain l, I think it's better to shop of places that are unionized
I used to shop at a kroger that had a UFCW sticker on the sliding doors out front. They represent 835,000 grocery workers. Unions have a strong foothold in American Grocery stores. Sounds like TJ's needs em.
IGA!
Presumably union families have more dollars to vote with as well.
No more Trader Joe’s for me.
Same. I thought they were one of the good guys.
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