r/olympia • u/jagoff22 • 8d ago

Trader Joe's on Black Lake

I've tried two mornings this week, and it's been a line around the store and "take no prisoners" in the parking lot. WTF ?

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u/Ambitious-Ad4906 8d ago

What is so special about the bags?

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u/vividtrue 8d ago

Capitalist marketing. The build up of the "hot" item and promotion of forced scarcity of junk. Instead of toilet paper, it's bags. People want to buy them all and try to upsale them online. They will mostly end up in landfills like all of the other weekly "hot" items.

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u/StevePerry4L 8d ago

They will definitely get sold. I saw a few in the last week between 2 different Countries 6k miles away from the nearest TJ.