I
had the occassion to drive by the new Trader Joe's on Hilltop early
Monday....and there they were...lined up for job apps. So finally it
looks as if the famous TJ's will be in Redding. If you haven't shopped
at TJ's, and you like unusual foods and a great variety, you will love
the place. These stores are just fun to go into...if only for an energy
bar. In Redding, we are going to be very fortunate to have both TJ's
and Orchard Nutrition, which is also a great store, and is locally
owned. Here is what David Benda of the Record Searchlight said about
the "job opportunities"
Photo by Andreas Fuhrmann / Record Searchlight
Jon
Newland, 17, of Redding, fills out an application at Trader Joe's in
Redding on Monday morning. People started arriving at 5 a.m., roughly
four hours before the store was to hand out applications.
Hoping
to land a job at the new Trader Joe’s in Redding, job-seekers started
arriving at 5 a.m. today — four hours before the specialty grocer was
scheduled to start handing out applications.
By 8 a.m., dozens
were lined up in front of the Browning Street store, which will open
May 1, and the parking lot in the Kohl’s center was starting to fill up.
“I
want to have a job that is more of a future,” said 22-year-old Redding
resident Jared King, as he sat in his car in the chilly pre-dawn air.
King,
who works for a care home in the area, was filling out an application
as he spoke. He said he got the application during a recent visit to
the Trader Joe’s in Chico.
Company spokeswoman Alison Mochizuki
said approximately 1,200 applications had been handed out as of 3 p.m.
today. People can pick up applications through Friday. Trader Joe's
expects to have everybody hired by the end of this month, Mochizuki
said.
Gaylynn Robinson, 51, has been out of work since March of
last year, when she quit her accounting job in Oregon to move to Shasta
County. Robinson said she and her husband returned to Shasta County to
be closer to family.
Despite her qualifications, Robinson said
it’s been difficult landing work, adding that she’s either
over-qualified or under-qualified. Robinson’s unemployment will run out
in May.
“Maybe I can get an accounting job or even a cashier,” said Robinson, who lives in Anderson.
Although
getting a job at Trader Joe’s isn’t a first-come, first-served
prospect, most in line today said they got up early to show the company
they have the initiative.
“Maybe they will hire the guy who was here at 5 a.m., as opposed to the guy who got here at noon,” Daniel Peyton, 22, said.
Peyton works part-time at Round Table Pizza in Redding.
“That’s
why I’m here. I’m getting less than 10 hours a week,” the Redding
resident said of his pizza job. “My goal is to have a job with more
hours than I’m getting.”
Word that the niche grocer would be
taking applications has been circulating for weeks. Many job-seekers
came to the Redding store last Monday, only be told Trader Joe’s
wouldn’t start taking applications until today.
Finally TJ's is here!
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