An interesting article tells the story about the mysterious Trader Joe's, my favorite grocery store chain. During our recent trip to the US, we decided to stay in a motel in CA just because it was next door to a Trader Joe's!
Here are the interesting bits from the article:
"Square foot for square foot, that Trader Joe’s outperforms an average Walmart, which would have to do $30 million in business to match it during the same period."
"We don’t know who or what owns Trader Joe’s."
"Albrecht (who owned Trader Joe's and also co-founded Aldi) was held captive for 17 days, during which time he reportedly negotiated down his own ransom of 7 million deutsche marks. Later he wrote off the sum as a business expense on his taxes."
This sentence made me finally realize where my love towards Trader Joe's comes from,
"Stepping into a Trader Joe’s after visiting a supermarket is akin to crossing the state line from New York into Vermont."
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