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Crime Scenes May 5, 2010

The Trader Joe’s Effect

By丹尼尔·毛雷尔

“In other stores, people clutch their bags like they’re an infant, but at Trader Joe’s, they don’t watch so closely.” —The police captain who oversaw a recent undercover operation that caught a purse snatcher atTrader Joe’s Brooklyn[Brooklyn Paper]

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