What Did You Have For Dinner Tonight?

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Wow, wow, wow. I can't wait! I just heard, at the NYE party I went to, that TJ's is coming to my town. I just heard, also, that there's one in Indianapolis(about an hour away), and I had been planning on hitting that one, on my next trip. But now I can wait, until we get our own. It will have tremendous success in my town.

If you think it will be a tremendous success in your town, imagine an A-bomb explosion in NYC, home of the $3 tomato. Back when TJ's first store opened near Union Square, there were literally lines down the block just to get into the store. Even today, there are still lines to get into TJ Wines, which is a separate store next door. I heard somewhere that this TJ receives 10,000 customers every day and has the highest gross revenue per square foot of any store in the entire city. It's a tiny store too- perhaps as big as a typical pharmacy.