Allston to get a Trader Joe's

...about the liquor department comment - they don't need to lose one from another store for this, esp since Martinetti's and Blanchards are pretty close by. However, I think this store will be mobbed, as there are not a lot of affordable groceries right in Harvard Square. The Cambridge TJs is kind of a long walk. I agree I wish they had one more south of Boston. The Patriot's Place TJs is fantastic. Needham is a little cramped, and no alcohol, but the crew there are super nice.

More like two miles from Coolidge Corner and a mile and a half from Mem drive. There are Star Markets much closer to each other than that. (Including the Brighton Mills and Packards Corner stores, as a matter of fact.) Also, stores get more than three liquor licenses per chain now.

Also, Hingham isn't south shore? Because there's totally a Trader Joe's in Hingham.

I bet almost no one from that area currently travels to TJ's in Coolidge Corner, so that's not a problem. Even though Martinetti's and Blanchard's aren't TOO far from here, they require a special trip to get there. This TJ's will sell a ton of alcohol.

That's precisely where you use a liquor license.

Have you noticed in terms of city life that Boston is an incredibly safe city?

1. Fire Safety - All these new buildings have sprinklers, alarms, pull stations, etc. They aren't a 1920 built two family that has been divvied up into an illegal 14 room boarding house by some scumbag landlord so some kid trying to save a few bucks while at BU doesn't get roasted to death. .

2. EMS - Perhaps you have a point there, but if you notice, one of the reasons that Boston has a fairly low death rate from shootings is that we have a really good EMS system, a national model. and I think we have a few good hospitals.

3. Police - Last time I checked, the BPD is the biggest gang in town. Not to many are able to challenge their authority. Unless you are dealing on someone else's turf at around 10:30 PM up on Humboldt, I wouldn't be overly concerned about your general safety.

Overall, we should be ok, except of course when you die on the T from heat stroke or a 1977 Boeing LRV slams into you at Arlington because its brakes went because along with all this new tax revenue it doesn't seem to be filtering down to the thing that moves people around to all these new jobs.

If that was the barrier to getting comments posted around here, I would be a mere gleam in your eye.

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(e.g. bread or peanut butter without sodium, organic dairy products and produce)

Have you checked out Teddie All Natural Peanut Butter (unsalted)?

http://teddie.com/products/peanut-butter/

And it's made right here in Everett! (and can be purchased at most supermarkets!)

Plenty of us in Dorchester have tried to get Trader Joe's to come here. They won't. Apparently we are not the right customer base for them (they are sooooo wrong about that!). The space on Morrissey where the Burger King used to be (ages ago) would have been a perfect spot. Plenty of parking, great visibility, etc but they weren't interested.

As for anything near a Stop & Shop or Shaw's there are clauses written into leasing agreements barring those landlords from renting to competitors within a certain range. Don't know the details but this was an issue when we were lobbying for a TJs at the Carruth Building at Ashmont Station, because the developer had some deal with one of the local supermarkets. This is also why there is no supermarket at Puritan Plaza as it is too close to the Stop & Shop on Freeport street. So instead of a Trader Joes or (gasp!) a Whole Foods, we got National Wholesale Liquidators.