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Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada by mullingitover on Saturday October 04, 2014 @03:13AM (#8408990)
> What makes Trader Joes Trader Joes is that they carefully curate the entire experience and having a loss of control over how they are presented to the customer is a big deal.

Ha! Every Trader Joe's I've ever shopped at has actually been a pretty miserable shopping experience. I keep going back because their stuff is so good, but it's not a carefully curated experience, unless the curators are sadistic. They're ruthlessly efficient, and have sales per square foot figures that are the envy of the grocery industry.

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Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada by gcb4 on Saturday October 04, 2014 @05:27AM (#8409148)
their food is just a more "Kraft food" version of hippie food you find in regular "organic" markets.

basically pump oils and sugar. instant tasty,

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Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada by mullingitover on Monday October 06, 2014 @06:32PM (#8418722)
I have yet to find a hippie market that has their selection of beer, wine, and spirits (TJs started out as a wine shop).
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Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada by tormeh on Saturday October 04, 2014 @08:17AM (#8409331)
"If it tastes good, spit it out" may be an exaggeration, but there's a lot of truth to it...
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Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada by SoftwareMaven on Saturday October 04, 2014 @02:25PM (#8410122)
I don't think there's any truth in it. We developed taste buds to guide us to what we should eat and what we should avoid. That evolution has been usurped by food science.

On the other hand, "if it has an ingredient list, it's not food" is much closer to a truism. It's obviously an exaggeration as well; nonetheless, I tred cautiously with ingredient lists.

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Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada by tormeh on Sunday October 05, 2014 @08:38AM (#8412140)
And now the situation we use our taste buds in is so different from the situation they were trained in that our taste buds are behind the biggest health issue in the world after aging.
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