Comments on: Eye on the Street

By: Syc

Syc — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:50:16 +0000

Not sure why the fixation with Trader Joes, lots of Chinese origin products, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, sodium in the marinades. Would much rather have a Fresh Market.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:21:18 +0000

My mother still has and USES her bonnet hair dryer. Seriously. She will never give it up. Nor her big “hairdo”. I’ll say one thing for bonnet hair dryers–you can read or watch TV while your hair “sets”. And there’s no blow dryer arm fatigue.

By: At Home in Decatur

At Home in Decatur — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:16:35 +0000

Evidently he has not examined my shopping record. I once lived at the Trader Joes in West LA. I cannot go to the Landmark Theater without coming home with several bags of Trader Joes items.

Then again, I tried to support Metro Mart all by myself and that didn’t work out….

By: Billy

Billy — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:52:37 +0000

I posted this a while ago but I met the CFO of Trader Joes and, believe me, he knows of Decatur. He told me they are not considering Decatur because to Trader Joe’s there is not a large enough population with a high income for them. In his words, you have the downtown area which is the socio economic population they are looking for (except not enough people) surrounded by a larger but lower socio economic population. I think we sometimes forget that Decatur is larger than just the square area.

By: smalltowngal

smalltowngal — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:20:05 +0000

I’ll bet they figure in the traffic passing by, too, though — some proportion of everybody going up and down N. Druid Hills and Lavista every AM and PM.