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Old 11-19-2012, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Ooper View Post
I have to say I agree with a previous poster. Never heard of Trader Joes and I assume that it is just a grocery store where a turkey is a turkey and ham is ham. Why would anyone drive over 120 miles to buy groceries when you can get to a store on your golf cart? What is the draw?
I don't know in what areas all of Trader Joe's stores are located but they are a big, big thing with the upper-middles & richies here in the Baltimore area. I've been in our local one just once, and I left with the same impression I had the one time I went to one of the local Whole Foods outlets. If you're not of a certain political persuasion and didn't run with the hippies you weren't their kind of people.

Thankfully for us, Wegman's is exploding in this area in a big way, and there are now 3 Wegman's stores in the Baltimore metro. Something I will dearly miss once we are permanent in TV area.
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