Trader Joe's comes to the Carolinas....and the crowd goes nuts.

News Type: Event — Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:07 PM EDT

entertainment, california, shopping, north-carolina, charlotte, trader-joes

We just had the grand opening of our new Trader Joe's here in town yesterday and it was sumpin. You would think folks here had never been inside a grocery store before. People cheering. People doing "the wave." People hugging each other because they could get (almost) Two-Buck Chuck.

But mostly excitement involving a lot of recent Charlotte newbies who were used to shopping at TJ's where they formerly lived and now felt that Charlotte had joined at least the 1980's.

Don't get me wrong. I love Trader Joe's as much as the next ovo-lacto-organo-vegan health nut. None of which I am, btw. But I guess it says something for a town that is trying so hard to be a big fish...a city that is working so hard to be on the map, that when little things like a store opening "puts us on the map", you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Oh, yeah. We're getting an IKEA next year.

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schnoo

A little background for the uninitiated.

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6 votes

#1 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:07 PM EDT

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djd

Love the Pavlov's tasting team! Wonder if they start drooling when their alarm clocks ring too.

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5 votes

#2 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:18 PM EDT

{"commentId":957357,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}

schnoo

djd

Did you know that if you google 'Pavlov's tasting team' this article comes up at the top of the heap?

I feel so honored.

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3 votes

#2.1 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:00 PM EDT

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djd

Newsvine certainly does well in the Google rankings - it's one of the things that makes it a great platform to write on :)

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4 votes

#2.2 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:17 PM EDT

{"commentId":957426,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}

schnoo

That.... and the $1.29 I earned in April.

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3 votes

#2.3 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:52 PM EDT

{"commentId":957496,"authorDomain":"djd"}

djd

Yeah, don't give up the day job!

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3 votes

#2.4 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:31 PM EDT

{"commentId":957521,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}

schnoo

I already did. Damn.

Maybe I'll take me back. ;^)

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3 votes

#2.5 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:47 PM EDT

{"commentId":957190,"authorDomain":"jfxgillis"}

jfxgillis

schnoo synchronicity:

First time I'd noticed the "Garden Harvest Chips" ad was on this article. Thought it was one of your graphics.

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4 votes

#3 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:15 PM EDT

{"commentId":957236,"authorDomain":"forbidden"}

Robby The Robot

Do you have McDonald's yet?

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4 votes

#4 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:49 PM EDT

{"commentId":957360,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}

schnoo

We have a Burger Chef, an Eskimo Queen and a Brew-Thru. The Mickey D's advance squad was here a couple of years ago, but haven't been back.

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1 vote

#4.1 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:02 PM EDT

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greenpagan

Do you have electricity in your outhouses down there in Dixie yet? Thank the socialist FDR if you do...

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4 votes

#5 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:08 PM EDT

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greenpagan

BTW--Love that Afro. No one can say you aren't with it...

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2 votes

#6 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:27 PM EDT

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schnoo

That's Sly, brother man. Everybody is a star.

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2 votes

#6.1 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:03 PM EDT

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caltha-palustris

Greenpagan, I was thinking the same thing...I've thought it was sad to see it go out of fashion.

Schnoo, was always a fan of Sly and the Family Stone.

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3 votes

#6.2 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:15 PM EDT

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caltha-palustris

Sound is in your city too...

doncha...doncha ya wanna get higher....

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1 vote

#6.3 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:20 PM EDT

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schnoo

I've decided I love funk. You can quote me on that. ;^)

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3 votes

#6.4 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:48 PM EDT

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Robby The Robot

Can't go wrong with George Clinton, but you will most definitely go wrong with Grand Funk Railroad.

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1 vote

#6.5 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:18 PM EDT

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schnoo

I saw Grand Funk at a place I was working way, way back when. They were lousier than you might have ever thought.

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1 vote

#6.6 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:23 PM EDT

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jfxgillis

Robby, schnoo:

"I'm Your Captain" is so bad it's camp. I do shudder at anything else that comes on the Classic Rock station.

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2 votes

#6.7 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:31 PM EDT

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schnoo

OK. This one should be an article all by itself.

Remember Sweet Sweet Connie from Grand Funk "American Band" fame?

"Out on the road for 40 days/ Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze/ Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act/ She had the whole show and that's a natural fact."

Check this out. She ran for the School Board in Little Rock. The last time I saw her she was a check-out clerk at the local Hobby Lobby. I kid not.

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1 vote

#6.8 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:45 PM EDT

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jfxgillis

schnoo:

She figured into the Paula Jones case somehow but I'm hazy the details. I think she was the only woman who backed up the charge that Clinton used state police a procurers during his time as Governor.

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2 votes

#6.9 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:50 PM EDT

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Robby The Robot

jfxgillis, I wish I were making this up but Grand Funk Railroad really does have a song named T.N.U.C.

You won't find me, knockin' at your door.
I've known forever, you don't love me no more.
If you don't want to lay there, with your mouth shut tight,
I'm gettin' myself together, yes, I'm leavin' tonight

You ain't gonna' find nobody, to treat you like I do.
I been down on my knees, you treat me like a fool.
Now, I know what you're tryin' to do, awww, it ain't gonna' happen.
'Cause I just done got hip to you, I'm gonna' walk out laughin'.

And if you're truly brave or masochistic or both, here's a YouTube video of the boys performing it live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7IfABOh59E

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#6.10 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:53 PM EDT

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jfxgillis

Robby:

I can't resist the temptation, so all associated health problems I suffer because of your link I will recover by way of litigation.

Better Red Sox game tonight, huh? And I can't believe they're pulling this "he watched it too long" crap on Big Papi. Of course he did, for pete's sake. It was down the right-field line in Fenway, which is one of the screwiest fair/foul calls in the Major Leagues.

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2 votes

#6.11 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:03 PM EDT

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Robby The Robot

Beware the extended drum solo!

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1 vote

#6.12 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:08 PM EDT

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jfxgillis

Robby:

Too late!!! If only you'd attached that disclaimer earlier, you could have avoided liability.

And I have to sit through TEN MINUTES of that? You better settle because the jury is going to hammer you.

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2 votes

#6.13 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:13 PM EDT

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Robby The Robot

I could have posted Led Zeppelin's Moby Dick which is nothing but an extended drum solo. I've seen Spinal Tap live twice. Once at The Channel when This is Spinal Tap came out and a second time a few years later when they toured on their own to promote their self-produced and self-marketed masterpiece, Break Like the Wind, at Great Woods. They did a classic take on the extended drum solo where they dropped a video screen and all walked off stage except for the drummer of course and the video screen played vignettes of what they did while the drum solo was ongoing. One went for a fine dinner, another went for a spa treatment, etc. Then they all look at their watches and call for their drivers and run back on stage just in time to finish the song.

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#6.14 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:28 PM EDT

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jfxgillis

Robby:

Honestly, I couldn't take it. At about seven minutes I started scrolling the "related" menu and found a "Closer to Home" video from Shea in 1971 and played that instead.

Self-medication. I may not sue after all.

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2 votes

#6.15 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:37 PM EDT

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Robby The Robot

Was Tony Conigliario not a tragic figure worthy of an Aeschylus play? Did you know today is the 40th anniversary of the pitch that for all intents and purposes ended his career? He reached 100 homeruns faster than any baseball player in history. Dead at 45.

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1 vote

#6.16 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:58 PM EDT

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jfxgillis

Robby:

Yea, as a matter of fact, I tried to seed Jeff Passan's gorgeous Yahoo column on the subject the other day but saw I'd been beaten to it. I hope schnoo doesn't mind a link through:

Accidental Villain

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2 votes

#6.17 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:06 AM EDT

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schnoo

One pitcher's got a 42 inning scoreless streak going. Another cracks two homers and two more hits for eleven total bases.....the most by any pitcher in 50 years. It's looking like there's a chance the Red Sox, Indians and Cubs could all make the post season. This global warming thing is getting weirder every day.

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2 votes

#6.18 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:10 AM EDT

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schnoo

We should stay on topic. We were talking about Grand Funk, weren't we?

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3 votes

#6.19 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:11 AM EDT

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Robby The Robot

Jack Hamilton always said it was an accident and just before Tony Conigliaro died he said he believed him. Tony C. was the Billy Budd of baseball!

God Bless Captain Vere!

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1 vote

#6.20 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:26 AM EDT

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jfxgillis

The joyous affection and subsequent aching sadness we felt for Tony C. is largely inexpressible.

As I said. Worst baseball day of my life, by far.

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2 votes

#6.21 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:36 AM EDT

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Robby The Robot

He never actually forgave him though! That's Boston for ya!

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1 vote

#6.22 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:41 AM EDT

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Aine MacDermot

Damn, I'm going to have to think about moving south again... hehehe.

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3 votes

#7 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:47 PM EDT

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schnoo

Wait till next year. We're getting our second Trader Joe's out near the, uh, university. The 2-buck Chuck will be hard to keep in stock. ;^)

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2 votes

#7.1 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:06 PM EDT

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Kathleen54

Two-buck Chuck's is not bad - even for three bucks.

I'm jealous. In Ashland, we have an Albertson's and a Safeway, neither of which has good bagels. :-(

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2 votes

#8 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:52 PM EDT

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schnoo

kath

As I may have mentioned elsewhere, I scored bigtime when I found a place that was closing out their wine. Kendall-Jacksons pinots, merlots and syrahs for six bucks a pop. We've got wine in every nook and cranny in our house. But that's a good thing. ;^)

Otherwise, I'd be backing up both the vehicles at Trader Joe's right about now.

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5 votes

#8.1 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:52 PM EDT

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Jimster

Shhh...Don't ell amyone, but 2BC Chardonnay won top honors at the Calif State Fair's wine competition this year. Raised a few eyebrows (and reddened some faces) in the wine biz for sure.

It's pretty good too. (a steal at 2 bucks, wow)

I love TJ's. It started in my hometown, Pasadena. Used to go there when it was Pronto Market,

THE Trader Joe went to our church.

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2 votes

#8.2 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:04 PM EDT

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Jimster

I feel everyone's pain at not having a TJ's in their area.

After shopping at TJ's for, ahem.. Thirty years or so, We moved to Seattle. Where they didn't have one close by, it was torture not having one down the block.

Back in Calif now, many TJ's, all is well :)

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1 vote

#8.3 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:16 PM EDT

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schnoo

When we got to San Francisco, our hotel is a couple blocks from a TJ's. Great stuff for hotel room snacking and imbibing.

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1 vote

#8.4 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:31 PM EDT

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Darlene1005

schnoo,

you live in Charlotte?

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1 vote

#9 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:09 PM EDT

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schnoo

What gives you that impression?

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2 votes

#9.1 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:26 PM EDT

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Darlene1005

when little things like a store opening "puts us on the map",

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1 vote

#9.2 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:34 PM EDT

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schnoo

Oh, that.

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2 votes

#9.3 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:45 PM EDT

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Darlene1005

thanks for your answer...:-)

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2 votes

#9.4 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:58 PM EDT

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Behind My Screen

TJ's is great for Organics! the food is half the price you would see in any super market... making it only a few cents more than the non-organic foods in the super markets.

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1 vote

#10 - Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:23 PM EDT

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schnoo

BMS

It's a great store period. I wish there were one in every location currently occupied by the chain that owns the market here, Harris Teeter. Or Taj Teeter, as we unaffectionately call the behemoths.

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1 vote

#10.1 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:18 AM EDT

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Leah M

I want trader joes here soooo bad. We wrote them messages, even started a facebook group for it. I don't think they like Champaign, IL... (or as we like to call it... chambana)

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1 vote

#11 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:23 AM EDT

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schnoo

Trader Joe's is into slow laid-back California surfer-style growth. They took freakin' furever to get this store built, even though it was a take-over of another grocery store.

They have their own set of priorities. And Jeebus bless 'em for it.

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2 votes

#11.1 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:06 AM EDT

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Jimster

Toad alley Duuude :)

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1 vote

#11.2 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:11 PM EDT

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Pev

Hate to burst your bubble, there, schnoo, but the Carolinas already had a Trader Joes. Just, y'know, not the bustling metropolis of Charlotte. Cary opened its Trader Joes last year.

I know, I know, if it ain't in Charlotte it don't count, but there you have it.

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1 vote

#12 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:21 AM EDT

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dcuben

Yeah - and the rumors about another one opening in Chapel Hill soon (at the site of the old Earth Fare supermarket), are making me hanker for some of that "two-buck chuck," although at the Cary store it's more like three-buck chuck...

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4 votes

#12.1 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:03 PM EDT

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schnoo

If it ain't within a hundred miles of me, it don't count. So there you have it.

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3 votes

#12.2 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:32 PM EDT

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dcuben

Hey, as the crow flies, it is... sort of. Of course if you have to drive... how droll.

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1 vote

#12.3 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:23 PM EDT

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schnoo

Ah, if only they had a helipad.

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1 vote

#12.4 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:18 PM EDT

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dcuben

WTF?!? You mean they don't? Bastids! That's how I'd been planning to get there! (Chapel Hill traffic is... well... SLOW).

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1 vote

#12.5 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:04 PM EDT

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schnoo

You could take the Chunnel, but that's so déclassé.

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2 votes

#12.6 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:07 PM EDT

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dcuben

What a great idea, Schnoo! Perhaps we can get Halliburton to build a (no bid contract) Chunnel between Chapel Hill and Carrboro... and pay for it with another tax cut for the rich! Hmmm... better yet, I'd like 'em to build me a transporter, instead. I don't want to have to queue up for no stinkin' chunnel.

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2 votes

#12.7 - Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:08 PM EDT

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schnoo

I stopped by the new TJ's this afternoon. It was hectic, but not crazy. The check-out guy said the lines were so long over the weekend, it took some folks over an hour to check out.

There were some characters in there today. Everything from old school hippies to the country club boob job set. Fun.

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2 votes

#12.8 - Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:34 PM EDT

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Pamela Drew

If it makes you feel any more sophisticated in Charlotte, the first Trader Joe's opened here on 14th Street like a year ago, my memory could be closer to two, anyway I walked by and saw lines like a concert or preregistered buyers for the Wii and iPhone. Here folks line up for tons of stuff, anyway it was a shock to see it was a Trader Joe's, us too!

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3 votes

#13 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:16 PM EDT

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eElementary

Schnoo--we got the TJs here in Raleigh about a year ago, and being the crazy folks, we went the first weekend. Nothing on the shelves.

That was to be our Ikea... (-; Oh well, we'll make due with our...ah....we do have Sheetz...that's always good...

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2 votes

#14 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:10 PM EDT

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Robby The Robot

We don't have any Sheetz where I live. I'd gladly trade you a Trader Joe's and Whole Foods Market for a Sheetz.

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#14.1 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:28 PM EDT

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schnoo

I always prefer to be in deep Sheetz, it seems.

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1 vote

#14.2 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:35 PM EDT

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eElementary

I won't even reply to that one, schnoo! (-;

Sorry, but no trade Robby. I had Sheetz up North, and they finally begin to make it to Raleigh. We have about 6 right in Wake County, with another coming in Zebulon. We have the Whole Foods and TJs. Wouldn't mind an Eat-N-Park though.

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1 vote

#14.3 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:46 PM EDT

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Leah M

What's Sheetz?

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#14.4 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:56 PM EDT

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eElementary

Sheetz is a 'convienience restaurant' that offers not fast food, but good food, fast. And no, I don't work for them. They have cheap gas, but then also made-to-order food like sandwiches, wraps, salads, etc. A glorified 7-11 if you will. The food is really good. Check out their website:
http://www.sheetz.com

They started around Altoona, PA, and have slowly moved south, now to NC.

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1 vote

#14.5 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:03 PM EDT

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dcuben

Hey, eE: I had a friend in PA that I had told I'd meet at an Eat-N-Park... they spent an hour searching that road for Eaton Park. Oh well... ;-)

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1 vote

#14.6 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:26 PM EDT

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schnoo

ahhh, didn't make the connection. I've stopped at a Sheetz before, up in Roanoke. But just for gas. Never thought about buying food there.

You guys would rather have a Sheetz over a Trader Joe's? Guess I need to try it before I sling that hash.

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1 vote

#14.7 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:27 PM EDT

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Robby The Robot

I don't get the fascination with Trader Joes. They get a lot of stuff from Asian countries with absolutely no food safety standards whereas Sheetz has things like barbecued chicken and hot dogs!

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2 votes

#14.8 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:58 PM EDT

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Leah M

Do you know what is in hot dogs????

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1 vote

#14.9 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:39 PM EDT

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schnoo

Do you know what's in chicken?

(That's right......)

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3 votes

#14.10 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:07 PM EDT

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eElementary

Sheetz are the only hot dogs I eat. Mmmmm....

It's still fast food, but it's all made to order yummee goodness.

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1 vote

#14.11 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:38 PM EDT

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caltha-palustris

Robby,

Never heard of Sheetz...the convenience stores here that seem to carry healthy stuff are called WaWa. Schnoo, I've never been to a Trader Joe's. Not even sure where to find one. I love the Whole Foods market, but I can get cheaper vegetables at the local supermarket or farm stand.

Funny story: was in a Walmart the other day (a family member buys her vitamins there) and Clorox bleach was more than at my local supermarket. I've never purchased anything from Walmart.

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#14.12 - Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:42 PM EDT

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Robby The Robot

Some things at Wal-Mart are more expensive. It's kind of weird.

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#14.13 - Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:00 PM EDT

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schnoo

cal

You can check here to see where TJ's are located.

I saw Annette Benning at the Trader Joe's in Carmel...or near Carmel or Pacific Grove or whatever. She had on a scarf and shades at night. Funny, it made me look to see who it might be, rather than her being anonymous.

Was hoping to see Clint. Uh-uh.

We get Whole Foods next year. We have Fresh Market now, if you're familiar with them. I also like Wegemann's (sp?). Just been to the one up in DC. It's enormous.

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#14.14 - Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:50 PM EDT

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caltha-palustris

Schnoo,

I remember Wegmann's in upstate NY in the late 80s...just the ordinary garden variety supermarket...nothing to write home about...now the one nearest us is like trying to shop at Stu Leonards in CT...shoppers to travel at their own risk...or take out shopping cart insurance...the shoppers are/were crazy.

Actually, I recall shopping at Stu Leonards back in the 1980s...the traffic flow was sort of like a conveyor belt...one way in and one way out...heaven forfend you missed something. There was no turning back or going against flow of shopping carts. I think Stu Leonards finally went belly up...mooOOooo.

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#14.15 - Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:10 PM EDT

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schnoo

We refer to it as Schwegmann's for some reason. Must be that "Sch" thing.

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#14.16 - Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:20 PM EDT

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Greg Hoke

Does anybody see inconsistency in buying ready-made meals (packaged in India), while placing all those far-flung purchases in cloth bags to conserve petroleum used to make plastic bags? I shop at Trader Joes in Columbus, O, but it always makes me feel just a tad fraudish.

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2 votes

#15 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:00 PM EDT

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schnoo

We've been trying to use plastic bags here to conserve whole cloth.

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3 votes

#15.1 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:05 PM EDT

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Mike Dojc

Dude, I live 90 miles south of you in Columbia SC where a store opening the magnitude of a Trader Joes would get a two-page story in The State newspaper.

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4 votes

#16 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:02 PM EDT

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schnoo

Heh. I had to pick up someone at the Columbia airport a couple of years ago. I found a free spot right in front that didn't even have a parking meter. Saturday morning and you would have thought a neutron bomb had gone off in the place. A Trader Joe's may not be in your immediate future. ;^)

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4 votes

#16.1 - Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:07 PM EDT

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SCHNOO

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Trader Joe's comes to the Carolinas....and the crowd goes nuts.

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