Open a Trader Joe's in Las Cruces New Mexico

The Issue

The city of Las Cruces New Mexico is being ignored because Trader Joe's has minimum average income guidelines. This deprives many poor communities like Las Cruces of the kinds of healthy products and services that Trader Joe's sells. Las Cruces has a population larger than Santa Fe New Mexico, yet Santa Fe has a Trader Joe's location. There is no reason to believe that Trader Joe's would not succeed off of the New Mexico State University crowd alone. This gives the appearance that Trader Joe's does not value the largely Hispanic and Native American populations in the area. The area is also economically depressed, and Trader Joe's has been a good employer in areas where it exists. We wish them to rectify this situation by opening a location in Las Cruces as soon as financially possible.

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Jeffrey ColinPetition StarterI am a Freelance Writer, a Candidate to become a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest with the Order of Clear Mind Zen (<a href="http://www.clearmindzen.org" rel="nofollow">www.clearmindzen.org</a>) in Las Cruces New Mexico, and the Senior Partner & Spokesman for The Chimpzilla Project, a Free-Market Based Project to assist Poor & Marginalized People in the United States and around the World. I currently am writing for the Huffington Post, and working on a Book about what it means to be Poor in the United States--written from the perspective of someone who has lived 51 years in Poverty. He is also developing Sustainable Vistas, a SuperPAC organization dedicated to stepping away from partisanship, name-calling, and focusing on sustainable solutions to seemingly intractable problems. http://www.sustainablevistas.org Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-p-colin http://my.firedoglake.com/chimp1/ http://open.salon.com/blog/jeffrey_colin http://rkthb.co/9390
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The Issue

The city of Las Cruces New Mexico is being ignored because Trader Joe's has minimum average income guidelines. This deprives many poor communities like Las Cruces of the kinds of healthy products and services that Trader Joe's sells. Las Cruces has a population larger than Santa Fe New Mexico, yet Santa Fe has a Trader Joe's location. There is no reason to believe that Trader Joe's would not succeed off of the New Mexico State University crowd alone. This gives the appearance that Trader Joe's does not value the largely Hispanic and Native American populations in the area. The area is also economically depressed, and Trader Joe's has been a good employer in areas where it exists. We wish them to rectify this situation by opening a location in Las Cruces as soon as financially possible.

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Jeffrey ColinPetition StarterI am a Freelance Writer, a Candidate to become a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest with the Order of Clear Mind Zen (<a href="http://www.clearmindzen.org" rel="nofollow">www.clearmindzen.org</a>) in Las Cruces New Mexico, and the Senior Partner & Spokesman for The Chimpzilla Project, a Free-Market Based Project to assist Poor & Marginalized People in the United States and around the World. I currently am writing for the Huffington Post, and working on a Book about what it means to be Poor in the United States--written from the perspective of someone who has lived 51 years in Poverty. He is also developing Sustainable Vistas, a SuperPAC organization dedicated to stepping away from partisanship, name-calling, and focusing on sustainable solutions to seemingly intractable problems. http://www.sustainablevistas.org Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-p-colin http://my.firedoglake.com/chimp1/ http://open.salon.com/blog/jeffrey_colin http://rkthb.co/9390
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Dan Bane, CEO of Trader Joe's
Dan Bane, CEO of Trader Joe's
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Petition created on March 22, 2013