The existential question now facing Trader Joe's fans in the Capital Region: what cruel deity would bestow a TJ's on the Rochester metro area before the Albany area? [Rochester Democrat and Chronicle] (Thanks, Aaron!) Update: Chris talked with TJ's -- got the standard "Albany's not in our two year plan" line. [TU Places and Spaces]
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Because that's where Wegman's is from...damn you, TJ and Wegman's! Damn you!
... said ajw93 on Oct 13, 2011 at 4:18 PM | link
And that is precisely one more reason why we're moving to Rochester ! Wegmans + Trader Joes + URMC + Eastman School + Anthropologie + Eastview + Whats Coming that's Really REALLY BIG but can't tell you just now!!!!!!!
... said Nina Griscom on Oct 14, 2011 at 7:14 AM | link
This is good news for us and falls in line with everything I've been hearing, from my own experience, from the feedback I've been getting from many of my members who have traveled to Trader Joe's regionally, as well as from other sources. They all say Albany and Rochester, Rochester and Albany. It would have been nice to have Albany announced first, but the sequence really isn't important. I believe that Trader Joe's has a holistic plan to cover upstate NY in one fell swoop, and that plan has started!
I say congratulations Rochester (where I went to college)! We're right there with you!
Bruce Roter, President
We Want Trader Joe's in the Capital District!
www.wwtj.org
broter2@verizon.net
... said Bruce Roter on Oct 14, 2011 at 8:07 AM | link
@Bruce: It does seem a bit odd that TJ's would expand to Rochester alone -- it's pretty far from its other stores. And lot of its stores do seem to be clustered. (Though it's also opening one in State College, PA which isn't close to... anything.)
... said Greg on Oct 14, 2011 at 9:03 AM | link
Thanks for the positive thinking, Bruce... it just seems as if they're dancing around Capitaland in some sort of weird ancient torture ceremony or something, and after 8 years and a boatload of emails... it's a tad discouraging to me. I do hope you're right though.
... said Beverly on Oct 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM | link