In the two weeks ago since I first blogged about the Facebook petition to bring Trader Joe's to Kansas City, the group number has jumped by over 1,000 people. It's clear that Kansas Citians are desperate for a Trader Joe's, and group founder Rachel Perry Hanses has organized people to write Trader Joe's, twitter Trader Joe's and repeatedly put Kansas City on the Web site's location requester.So it's with a saddened heart that I say these requests have largely fallen on deaf ears. I called Tr
If you have a Facebook account, I demand this instant that you log in and join the group "Bring Trader Joe's to Kansas City, Missouri!" The only requirement for joining: You must be in the Kansas City, Missouri, network. Currently the group sits just shy of 3,000 members.That's an important number. It proved to be how many signatures Nashville's petition received before Trader Joe's listened and opened up in the Music City less than two months ago. The Nashville petition started in August 2007,
You want the good news or the bad news first? Good news is that yesterday's Bring Trader Joe's to KC post helped push membership in the group to a couple hundred people above 3,000. Not only does that mean that Kansas City has bettered Nashville's petition numbers (suck it Nashville!) but, according to my unscientific calculations, Kansas City has passed Austin, Texas and become the biggest TJ petition group on the Web. Bad news is that a Trader Joe's didn't miraculously ascend from th
