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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: ABQ, New Mexico
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Joe Coulombe, better known to shoppers as the founder of Trader Joe's, got his start in the late 1950s as the owner of Pronto Market, a small California convenience-store chain. But he knew the rapid expansion of 7-Eleven would make turning a profit increasingly difficult, so he decided to try out the grocery business instead. The rest, of course, is history.
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