I like Trader Joe's. I've found very good, healthy, affordable snacks for myself, wine for my wife and me, and wholesome meals for my son. The people who work there are nice, good layout.
Just one thing: the energy of some of the customers is trash. I don't know why stores like this attract so many weirdos from the Blue Bubble Zone, but it's ridiculous going into these places. You can just feel the shit energy.
I know a lot of my my fellow old school Reagan suburbanites go to Trader Joe's. My parents shop there, and they're OG Reagan Suburbanites. And that used to be all the people who went there when I went regularly in the 90s.
Something happened between 2000 and now. The mask zombies are still - STILL - a constant at these places. And just the weird, derpy left-wing loony energy. It seems to be MOST of the energy in these places now, which is tragic.
I mean, I'll still shop there. Because it hits all the sweet spots for people like me - healthy, good and cheap. What puzzles me is WHY so many of the weirdos shop there, instead of the obvious weirdo hangouts like Sprouts, Gelson's and Whole Foods (places I WON'T shop at).
I mean, why go half-assed on half-priced stuff when you can empty your savings account at some douchebag virtue-signaling place with a "mission statement"? What the hell are you weirdos DOING here at Trader Joe's (and why won't you leave)? You're making it really hard for me to pitch putting up a TJ's in Pensacola or Destin (and it would TOTALLY work there), because it's starting to get that "left-wing stink."
During COVID, I watched long lines of people wait for almost an hour, wearing their stupid masks, waiting to get into fucking Sprouts, when Ralph's was right down the street, an easy in-and-out, for cheaper - no line, no masks, no bullshit. So I know it's not about value, saving time, quality or common sense to these blue-bubble dorks. But Sprouts is fucking expensive and has a stupid mission statement. So I sort of understand that, in a we-are-not-the-same-but-I-see-a-pattern-here kind of way. You're strange and mentally ill, you have no concept of money or value for your time on this planet, but you like to feel morally superior while you buy awful-tasting food. I can't say I get you, but I see the pattern and can respect that, in a PT Barnum "a sucker is born every minute" kind of way.
Trader Joe's has Hawaiian shirts and looks like Jimmy Buffett is going to come back from the dead any minute and perform an impromptu gig there. Their food is actually good, and it's not overpriced. They don't sell awful-tasting crab apples for your shitty kale salads. And I've never known a blue-bubble weirdo to intentionally save money, especially on real food. And yet, there they are, derping up a perfectly good store on their way to Planet Fitness, an electric scooter convention, a feces hike in Downtown LA, or some documentary screening.
Like I said, we are not the same. And yet, we're both in Trader Joe's. I know they'd never be caught dead at Ralph's or, God forfend, WalMart. I know because I go to those places and I know who I see and don't see there. I never see them at the beach, either, though that's probably because I'm sleeping when the 5am Beach Cleanup, Weed Planting and Kale Juicing club meets up in Manhattan Beach. I prefer to go to the beach when the sunshine is also in attendance - and if the blue bubbles are scared of viruses, I'm sure they avoid sunshine like Dracula.
So why over the past 25 years did they decide to start derping up Trader Joe's? And how do we get rid of them? Is there an exterminator for derpy leftists?
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