Trader Joe’s Chases a Pirate

Friday, 16 August 2013 | by Pat's Picks

Trader Joe’s is pursuing a pirate, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Michael Hallatt has spent more than $350,000 in the last two years at the grocery chain. So what’s he doing with all that food? Reselling it across the border in Vancouver, Canada for a profit at his store, Pirate Joe’s. Despite the fact that the chain has no presence in Canada, Hallatt now finds himself in the midst of a major lawsuit, a circumstance that inspired him to remove the P from his store window—it now reads Irate Joe’s.

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle