Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional.
I’m disappointed. I really thought that TJs was more like Costco. You look at the employees and they are always smiling, just like Costco. Guess not all things are equal.
The founder died, shit has changed drastically in the last 5 years or so
Gotcha. Too bad.
I looked this up and he hasn’t been at the helm on the company since 1988, and had already sold it to the Aldi founder long before.
Who said those two sentences are related?
Trader Joe’s is overpriced Aldi. Their employees are told to smile, just like everywhere else you go that employees are always smiling. Nobody’s that happy at work, and that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody at this point.
Trader Joe’s is owned by Aldi
Different brother. There’s Aldi Sud and Aldi Nord (I think that’s right), who have common family history but are now separate companies. One operates the US chain called Aldi and the other owns TJ’s.
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Trader Joe’s is owned by the OTHER Aldi, which is related historically but entirely separate from the Aldi stores in the US.
Interestingly the US is the only country to have both companies other than Germany itself, and even there one is in one half of the country and the other in the other.
Different aldis.
The frozen stuff is WAY better at TJs; my local Aldi has mostly stuff that’s cheap because it’s about to expire
If I want frozen garbage, I can buy it at any grocery store. No need to go to an overpriced place that leaves most of their floor space empty. I legit do not get trader joe’s or why people like it. Easily have that place is just frozen crap, and the other half is random vegetables and candy.
My grocery store’s frozen crap has never been as good, interesting, or inexpensive as it is at Trader Joe’s. It’s not that the stuff there is great or cheap, but there’s a bit of variety that is harder to find in the Krogers and Safeways and they do switch things up so every few months there are new options. For me, between variety and C quality, vs the same basic American stuff and somewhere between F to B quality, I’ll take the former. That’s why I don’t really get frozen stuff at Costco.
Joe literally ate the motherfuckers who don’t smile.
Costco aint much better and are very anti union, the warehouse workers get treated better than their counterparts at Walmart but the company doesn’t give a fuck about its workers, just its image of being ‘one of the good ones’. Their response to workers in Virginia forming a union is pretty telling, they also don’t give out a annual cost of living raise even for “exceptional workers”, its maxes out at 3%
I really do believe that most people who work there enjoy their job and are happy there. Costco has also released a statement about how to become a better company in response to unionization.
Yes because they don’t want a union to form because then Costco loses control and potentially their reputation. Even if you like you’re job, which I know from personal experience many a Costco do, being in a union is good, it give you a say in the way your work life goes. Costco does not want that which is why they play the song and dance, and yes some of that does equate to a better situation than similar companies, but they are still paying the lowest they believe they can get away with . Being better than their competitors like Walmart, Amazon, and Target is a really low bar
Costco isn’t anti union
What the F, TJ? Want to make a loyal customer of 15+ years quit? This is how you do it. We’re a union family, we vote with our dollars too.
Where are you gonna shop that’s better? Kroger? Safeway? Walmart? Whole foods? It’s fucked up.
I used to shop at a kroger that had a UFCW sticker on the sliding doors out front. They represent 835,000 grocery workers. Unions have a strong foothold in American Grocery stores. Sounds like TJ’s needs em.
Kroger and Safeway are unionized
Your local co-op?
IGA!
My qfc has a sticker at the front door that says the staff is unionized, so I’m shopping always there.
More than the chain l, I think it’s better to shop of places that are unionized
Presumably union families have more dollars to vote with as well.
There has been a push to unionize some TJ locations.
Here is an interview with one of the organizers from MA.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-below/id1713434162?i=1000634877458
Not all locations, such as my local one, are unionized. Hopefully there is some good progress soon since some lawsuits against the unions were tossed out of court late last year.
Edit: Just want to clarify that the existence of unions doesn’t justify their anti-union rhetoric, I do believe that corporate is shitty. I recently learned about their union struggle and wanted to share the story
A TJ’s in my area unionized last year. I went there and congratulated as many staff as I could find. You could tell which way they voted by their response to my good tidings. Most seemed to really appreciate the support.
The end of our patronage of TJs.
I ended it when I can’t find half the crap I want to eat consistently.
No more Trader Joe’s for me.
Same. I thought they were one of the good guys.
If people don’t have the right to decide what their labor is worth, then they are no better than slaves.
I agree with labor protections, but also let’s not compare people who have a choice of workplace, paid a wage, have benefits, aren’t owned by someone, cannot be bought or sold, and count as a full 5/5 of a person for the purposes of federal resource distribution to slaves who had none of those things.
Bud there’s different kinds of slavery this includes way back when too
The smartest thing about wage slavery is that our whole system runs on it. Everyone is born into the system and it just continues to perpetuate. At some point we have to redistribute wealth to help the general population succeed more. People should not have to worry about their basic needs for example. Food, shelter, healthcare, education. They should all be covered no questions asked.
*Traitor Joe’s
Well played
Wow so that kinda fuckin sucks. Guess I’m down to market basket.
I guess labour has no choice but to go back to the old style of negotiating. Aka. Rocking up at the bosses house on mass and ‘asking nicely’ for a raise.
Don’t forget bidding them “a very good day” if they see them in the streets.
Is this the Michael Scott defense? Instead of yelling “I declare bankruptcy” they yell “I declare this unconstitutional”?
It’s all very “Sovereign Citizen”.
wow. Tjoes is just throwing its goodwill away by aligning with spaceX. Its to bad as I like them and aldis.
Yeah they frequently carry items no other grocer carries. Luckily I have a Sprouts nearby.
I didn’t realize 2024 was the year I was going to stop shopping at TJ’s.
We can go back to mob violence if they don’t like our mutually agreed upon legal framework???
Being in agreement with Elon Musk is a clear sign you’re an idiot.
“The working class having a board that helps them is unconstitutional” for those who need a direct translation
Hey Trader Joe’s owners,Don’t be a dick! I’m not a large customer, but I can always stop shopping there. Very disappointing.
