Scott Herhold on MercuryNews.com has written an editorial about a proposed subsidy to bring a Trader Joe's to downtown San Jose, Herhold: We Can't Afford Subsidy for Trader Joe's.
Try as I might, I can't support a $2.9 million public subsidy for a Trader Joe's at the new MarketCenter shopping center on Coleman Avenue, between San Jose's airport and its still-struggling downtown.
What makes it hard is that I really like Trader Joe's. I visited its Mountain View store last week (No. 83) and came away with a bit of seafood, three bottles of Chilean wine and a carton of blackberries. For the time-starved yuppie, it's almost the ideal store. The portions are right, the prices are reasonable and -- no small thing -- the clerks are swift and competent.
mountain view is store 81
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Posted by: chrys | August 09, 2006 at 02:16 PM
I don't know what happened with the subsidy, but I'm sure glad this store happened cuz it's the one I shop at at least once a week.
Posted by: Jessica | December 11, 2007 at 04:28 PM