Evidence receipt / observation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: observation
27 Oct 2025 Acquired Trader Joe’s
“Let's hop all the way to the East Coast. They decided to start in Boston and build out a set of stores in the 500-mile corridor from Boston to D.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 27 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Trader Joe’s
Transcript context
…Yes. Let's hop all the way to the East Coast. They decided to start in Boston and build out a set of stores in the 500-mile corridor from Boston to D. C. At this point, you should be able to say, "I know why they did that." It is the most dense population of universities in America all along that corridor. And it's kind of crazy. Dan Bain, who would take over as the third CEO of Trader Joe's in 2001, did a podcast just recently, and he actually talked about it. He said, "Yeah, I probably wouldn't have made that decision if I were CEO at the time."…
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