A sign is up inside the Trader Joe's on Union Square announcing that the new location at 432 E. 14th St. at Avenue A is now hiring. (Thank you to Erika for pointing this out!)
This is the next step in the long evolution (May 2017!) of the new EV TJ's...
Still looks as if there's a way to go before this TJ's is ready. Here's a look inside the space on Friday... there's some TJ-esque paneling up, but otherwise, it's still pretty boxy-y inside...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Trader Joe's finally confirms that a Trader Joe's is opening on 14th Street at Avenue A
All about EVE, the Peter Stuyvesant Post Office-replacing rentals on 14th Street
Claim: A Trader Joe's won't be coming to new development at 14th and A after all
Trader Joe's: No current plans for grocery at 432-438 E. 14th St.
Looks like there's a Trader Joe's coming to 432-438 E. 14th St. after all
Many people losing their jobs at Associated which closes on Nov 31. Maybe they might hire some of them?
ReplyDeleteI like Trader Joe's. They're great for reasonably priced quality packaged goods; their produce, on the other hand, is mediocre, goes moldy in a weird way, and just about everything is packaged in plastic. Thinking about this in light of the closing of Associated, TJ's only sells one brand of an item, really; there is limited choice.
ReplyDelete90% of the staff at associated are absolutely HORRIBLE (started at the TOP---with the TOTALLY incompetent manager that allowed the staff to despise/objectify the customer)---GOOD RIDDANCE TO ALL OF THEM :(
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: Well that's sort-of the point. There is just one brand of item on everything, instead of 20 like a Food Emporium. The costs of doing this are lower. Hence savings passed onto the consumers, who don't mind if most of the things in the store are "mediocre", if everything is just being cooked or used in a no-frills way anyway.
ReplyDeleteI don't have to buy anything at TJ's that I do not want to buy (if I want the "good" olive oil I can get it somewhere else), but there are still crazy lines in all of the stores for checkout so I guess they have a market. Meanwhile every Gristedes/Morton Williams/D'Agostino is empty all the time. And these other chains, their grocery items are a panoply of mediocre expensive options. Associated has not been different.
It comes back, though, to the point where people in the neighborhood were belaboring the point that losing the Associated market was going to create a humanity crisis of people who would just not be able to buy groceries at all with the new retail setup on 14th Street. You will likely have to change brands if you switch from Associated to TJ, but you likely won't have to pay more & you won't suffer a drop in quality that you would notice. Note that the quality control dates on all the TJs items are pretty accurate, in the sense that things normally don't spoil sooner than the sell-by dates on the packages. Beyond that... literally every grocer in New York has this problem where things don't last as long as they would have if you got it from a Shop Rite in New Jersey. Well, there's always moving to New Jersey...
Will there be a wine shop at this location?
ReplyDeletebelieve----ONLY 1 wine shop allowed for TRADER JOE'S---NYS liquor authority thingy :(
ReplyDeleteI bet they don’t have Detroit style pizza.
ReplyDeleteTrader Joe's sells non-Trader Joe's brands too. Numerous beers. Orangina. Toblerone, Ritter Sport chocolates. Cabot cheddar. Kerrygold butter. Off the top of my head. Hey, what do you want from me? Go see for yourself.
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