People are a little fanatical about their Love of Trader Joes. Yes it's wonderful to get 2 Buck Chuck and cheap processed frozen dinners at a good price. I want to tell you that this was no dream job or a good place to work at. Hyping up a place because they pay their workers 8 to 10 dollars an hour is comical. I used to work at several locations Westlake, Culver City, Camarillo, and Emeryville. When I worked at the Emeryville location, I called it the revolving door TJ's. People were constantly being fired for very mundane problems. It's interesting when the costumers were the ones that noticed this and commented about it while checking out at the cashier,"Why are there different faces every I shop here? Every 3 months you've cycle through new people, why did they fire..." It wasn't fun visiting a chiropractor from all the heavy lifting either. It's a busy store so its hard to keep up at the pace they want you work at. Most of the blame goes to management at that store.
TJ has an awesome business model and has an excellent customer following but don't confuse that with it is a wonderful place to work at.