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Originally Posted by ChrisLA
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Oh and they didn't make such big deal in Manhattan when Trader Joes opened? Also I recall the national media making a big deal about the Time-Warner (Whole Foods, a Texas based mostly suburban upscale supermaket) in NYC.
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I live two blocks from Time Warner, and I don't recall a particularly big deal being made about the Whole Foods. In fact the whole center was derided as suburban , boring, and poorly designed from the very beginning - at least by the NY Times. And I don't even know what Trader Joe's is. Although I keep hearing references to it on this site. In fact I've noticed a very pervasive interest in chains on this California forum. In NY, in my experience at least, chains are a sign of creeping suburbanization, and generally looked down on.