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Händler Joes Franchise Chancen Händler Joes bietet einzigartige und interessante Elemente und trägt nicht eine Menge Marken-Namen. Wenn Sie in einem Verkauf Franchise, die Grundlagen, die interessant und aus der Box bietet engagieren möchten, dann ist die Trade Joes Franchise für Sie. Trade Joes ist die ideale Produktlinie, die einzigartige Produkte verkauft, die Originale sind und in der Regel nicht wieder verkauft werden. Dies macht Trader Joes zum einzigartigen Shopping-Erlebnis für jeden interessierten Shopper. Das Geschäft bietet alle ihre Produkte zu sehr niedrigen und erschwinglichen Preisen, die sie betrachten ihre Bestände als immer auf Verkauf. Wegen ihres einzigartigen Bestandes und der variierenden Verfügbarkeit von Artikeln haben sie keine gesonderten Artikelpreise und damit ihre Aktienpreise je Standort Standort variieren. Manchmal sogar den Verkauf ihrer Produkte einstellen, vor allem, weil sie entweder saisonale oder sind nicht starke Verkäufer. Trader Joes möchte sicherstellen, dass die Kunden in der Lage sind, von den niedrigen Preisen aller ihrer Artikel profitieren. Trader Joes ist ein privat geführtes Unternehmen und nicht Franchise oder öffentlich handeln. Es begann in den 1950er Jahren und wurde ursprünglich als Pronto Markets bekannt und in 67 wurde der Name in Trader Joes geändert. Von nun an hat das Unternehmen weiterhin nicht nur einzigartige Produkte für ihre Kunden, sondern auch gutes Essen und Getränke. Sie kaufen ihre Waren direkt von den Lieferanten und ändern ihre Lieferanten von Zeit zu Zeit, um ihren Kunden eine breite Palette von Produkten, die oft macht ihre Bestände sehr saisonal, wie Sie nicht immer das gleiche Element in ihren Läden regelmäßig finden können. Je Händler Joes Zweig hat jede direkte Beteiligung mit Nachbarschaft Veranstaltungen und Aktivitäten. Obwohl das Unternehmen nicht direkt bieten Franchising-Möglichkeiten kann man noch in der Trader Joes Aktivitäten engagieren. Wenn Sie interessiert sind, was Händler Joes zu bieten hat, dann ist es am besten, sie direkt bei der nächsten Trader Joersquos Niederlassung in Ihrer Nähe besuchen oder besuchen Sie ihre Website und E-Mail-Support-Mitarbeiter für weitere Informationen. Sie könnten auch am Verkauf ihrer Produkte und Waren interessiert sein und ein Händler Joersquos Anbieter werden. Wenn Sie leidenschaftlich über die einzigartigen Produkte, die Trader Joes zu bieten hat, dann können Sie daran interessiert sein, ein Anbieter zu werden. Um zu beantragen, füllen Sie das Lieferanten-Anfrage-Formular auf ihrer Website und wählen Sie die Kategorie, in der Sie interessiert sind. Trader Joes hat derzeit rund zweihundertundzwanzig Filialen in etwa neunzehn Staaten, die jeweils Produkte unter dem eigenen Label. Das Trader Joes Label ist eine vertrauenswürdige, die sicherstellt, dass alle ihre Kunden genau das finden, was sie wollen, mit Leichtigkeit. Sie können sicher sein, dass die Geschäftsmöglichkeiten, die Trader Joes zu bieten haben, wirklich profitabel sein wird. 193 Kommentare 1. Brenda Davis sagte auf 10262011 5:43:10 AM Trader joes würde ausgezeichnet in den Zustand der Vermont. Ich habe an ihnen eingekauft, als ich aus Staat heraus lebte. Bitte senden Sie mir weitere Informationen. Der Bereich, in dem ich bin in Burlington, Vermont, Chittenden County US. Vielen Dank 2. Ketan bhakta sagte auf 10312011 8:34:39 AM San Antonio tx. Hier seit 16 Jahren. Sie interessieren sich für mehr Bewusstsein für die Vorteile eines gesunden Lebensstils. Sowohl geistig als auch körperlich. Meine Familie ist in der Landwirtschaft in Indien und Lebensmittel in Großbritannien. Im Ruhestand. 42 Jahre alt. Vielen Dank. 3. Stephanie Bowers sagte am 272012 8:04:46 AM Fayetteville, North Carolina wäre eine ausgezeichnete Lage für ein Trader Joes. Fayetteville ist die Heimat von Ft. Bragg, und unsere militärische Bevölkerung kommen aus verschiedenen Hintergründen und sind Weltreisende. Ich persönlich mache es einen Punkt zu einem Händler Joes gehen, wenn Im in Raleigh oder Charlotte. 4. Iris Hardin sagte auf 3132012 3:37:26 PM Obwohl es mehrere Trader Joes in der Seattle Area gibt, sind sie weit und wenige dazwischen. Jedesmal wenn ich eine Chance bekomme, kaufe ich bei Trader Joes ein und möchte mehr Informationen über das Beginnen in diesem Geschäft erhalten. Ich weiß von einer ausgezeichneten Lage, die ideal für einen Händler Joe Store wäre. Vielen Dank. 5. Deanna Nettles sagte auf 432012 10:59:10 AM Interessiert am Teilen mit der Gemeinschaft die Vorteile des Lebens ein gesunder Lebensstil in Warrenton, Virginia. Bitte senden Sie mir Informationen zum Einstieg in dieses Geschäft. 6. pat farrell sagte auf 4262012 11:21:07 PM Ich interessiere mich für die Gründung eines Unternehmens von Händler joes in sioux Falls, sd. Bitte senden Sie uns Informationen. Danke 7. Dr. Charanjeev Anand sagte auf 542012 2:55:07 PM Ich interessiere mich für die Gründung eines Händler Joes in Glen Cove, NY 11542. Ich fühle, es wird eine wunderbare Ergänzung der Gemeinschaft sein. Vielen Dank. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Charanjeev Anand, D. C. 8. Laura Jones sagte auf 572012 7:23:36 PM Ich interessiere mich für die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes in North Macomb, Michigan Bereich. Der nächstgelegene Trader Joes befindet sich in Grosse Point. MI. Das ist etwa 25 Meile. Im nicht sure, wenn Sie irgendwelche Geschäftsgelegenheiten haben. Können Sie mir Informationen über die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes. Vielen Dank, Laura Jones 9. Marcia Stolp sagte auf 582012 6:36:27 PM Wir leben in Cheyenn, Wyoming, Trader Joes wäre ein ausgezeichneter Ort für unsere Gemeinschaft. Wir waren schon mehrere Male im LA Bereich. Was ist die Möglichkeit 10. Gary Stanbridge sagte auf 5172012 2:17:32 PM Avondale az würde gerne wissen, wenn ein Händler joes wird immer bald Interesse an der Eröffnung Geschäft in diesem Bereich Thx 11. Lisa LaBruno sagte am 5172012 2:39 : 19 PM Clinton (Hunterdon Grafschaft), New-Jersey würde ein fabelhafter Urlaub für einen Händler Joes sein. Die nächste ist in Florham Park, die etwa 40 Minuten entfernt ist. Viele gesunde Esser leben gesunde Lebensstile in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Und, viele bleiben-at-home Mütter, die gerne gesunde Lebensmittel für ihre athletischen Kinder kochen Wie bekomme ich mehr Informationen 12. BB sagte auf 622012 6:19:51 PM Süden des Atlanta Airport: Newnan oder LaGrange oder sogar Columbus , Wäre GA ausgezeichnete Standorte für ein Trader Joes. Ich wäre daran interessiert, eine Franchise zu eröffnen. 13. JKLEIN sagte auf 692012 2:27:51 PM Fairview Heights, IL wäre ein großartiger Ort Bitte übermitteln Sie Informationen. Vielen Dank 14. Lisa Walker sagte auf 792012 5:20:10 PM North Lake Tahoe, CA wäre ein großartiger Ort für ein Trader Joes Die einzige am nächsten ist uns in Reno, NV und das ist eine 45-minütige Fahrt. Wir interessieren uns für die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes in Tahoe. Bitte senden Sie Informationen 15. Erica sagte auf 7202012 8:29:15 PM Ich würde LIEBE ein TJs in Brisbane Australien Wir haben nichts wie es hier und ich fühle mich wie wir in der Steinzeit leben. Es gibt viele Leute, die absolut LIEBE es 16. SherRee Allen sagte auf 7212012 6:01:10 PM Ich hätte gerne ein Traders Joes in Ames, Iowa. Könnten Sie mir einige Infos über das Starten eines. Vielen Dank 17. Debbie Zamonis sagte auf 7262012 5.53.31 Uhr Bin interessiert am Starten eines Trader Joes in Florida um zip 32949. Awesome Bereich. Ich liebe dieses Geschäft. 18. Will Clark sagte auf 7302012 10:51:10 AM Huntsville, Alabama braucht einen Trader Joes. Hier sind die Gründe, warum: 1. 4. höchste jährliche Gehalt im Süden 2. 2. größte Forschungspark im Land 3. Mehr PHDs pro Kopf als jede Stadt in den USA Just goggle huntsville, AL. Haben einige der Forschung, werden Sie nicht bereuen. Lass es mich wissen wenn du interessiert bist. Ich würde lieben, Huntsvilles zuerst TJs 19 zu beginnen. Dolores Rudolph sagte auf 872012 5:50:05 PM Ich lebe in Nogales, Arizona, Grenzstadt mit Mexiko, und wir haben nicht einen Händler-Joes-Speicher hier. Ich wünsche weitere Informationen. Vielen Dank 20. Mary Erikson sagte auf 8112012 6:32:00 PM Wir brauchen ein Trader Joes in Bel Air MD - Wir sind es leid, die fast 14 Meile pendeln zu Towson :) Ich weiß, Sie würden unglaublich gut hier in Bel Air MD zu tun Wenn Sie Franchise würde ich es hier öffnen Danke 21. Aleah Charney sagte auf 8112012 6:53:56 PM Ich stimme mit Will Clark. Die Nachfrage ist bereits in Huntsville, Al. Die Leute schätzen die schnellere Check-out und kleine Gefühl von einem Händler joes. Trader Joes Auswahl ist immer gut, preiswert und selektiv. Sie wählen 3 oder 4 Produkte und wählen Sie die besten Huntsville Bewohner würde es lieben. 22. DianneRichard Jenkins sagte auf 8112012 8:59:33 PM Wir leben in Evans Georgia und fühlen sich dies ist ein großartiger Ort für ein Trader Joes haben wir eine nagelneue Food Lion, die nur seine Türen geschlossen das Gebäude ist in einem perfekten Ort Washington Road Und Belair Road und wir haben eine echte Notwendigkeit für einen Händler Joes kontaktieren Sie uns bitte zu diskutieren, wenn dies möglich ist 23. Brettb sagte auf 8182012 5:43:48 PM Hallo, ich lebe in Rom, Ga. 60 oder so Meilen von Atlanta. Der große Lebensmittelhändler hier ist Kroger (Weg zu). Rom verhungert für ein Geschäft wie dieses. Wir unterstützen drei Colleges eine große medizinische und juristische Gemeinschaft, Zeichnung Mitarbeiter von Ala. Adairsville, Calhoun, Rockmart, Cedartown, und vieles mehr. Wenn Trader Joes jemals unsere Stadt mit einem neuen Standort gnaden würde, wäre es nicht möglich, die Regale auf Lager zu halten. Hoffentlich, BrettB. 24. Frances McMullen sagte auf 8252012 2:05:50 PM Ich lebe in Midland, MI, USA. Ich hoffte, ein neues Geschäft in unserer Stadt, der Heimat von Dow Corning und Dow Chemical zu starten. Wir sind ein sehr familienorientiertes Gebiet und sehr gesundheitsbewusst. Trader Joes würde hier sehr gut tun, da das nächste Geschäft in Ann Arbor, MI ist. Vielen Dank für alle Informationen, die Sie senden könnten Frances McMullen 25. Kelly Green sagte auf 992012 9.15.49 Uhr Ich bin sehr daran interessiert, ein Trader Joes in der Daytona Beach Bereich. Vielen Dank für alle Infos, die Sie mir senden könnte auf es 26. Christina Turchetto sagte am 992012 9:29:52 PM Hallo. Ich möchte einen Händler Joes in Roseburg Oregon eröffnen. Ich schätze alle Informationen, die Sie senden könnten Danke 27. Trudy Smith sagte auf 1012012 6:42:34 PM, was sind die Möglichkeiten für die Einführung eines Trader Joes in der HarrisburgHershey, Pennsylvania (USA) Bereich Es gibt Geschäfte in der Philadelphia (90 Meilen entfernt ) Und and die Maryland Gegend (wieder 90 Meilen entfernt). Ich fühle mich zuversichtlich, dass ein Trader Joes würde in diesem Bereich gut tun, nachdem alle Harrisburg ist die Hauptstadt von Pennsylvania. Ich weiß, dass es ein Trader Joes kommt bald zu State College (70 Meilen nördlich). Vielen Dank 28. Jennie sagte auf 10102012 12:56:23 AM Hallo mein Name ist Jennie Im Interesse an der Eröffnung eines Händlers Joes. Ich habe eine Leidenschaft für ihre Produkte und weiß, dass es Gutes tun würde. Benicia 29. Joe Winn sagte auf 10132012 3:04:31 PM Wenn Sie bieten Franchise. Setzen Sie mich in Ihre Kontaktliste. Sie haben die beste Gelegenheit, mit den großen Ketten zu konkurrieren, die ich helfen möchte. 30. Jason Thrash sagte am 10172012 12:52:34 PM Ich wäre sehr daran interessiert, ein Trader Joes in Marion Illinois zu öffnen. Marion ist eine wachsende Gemeinde mit vielen Möglichkeiten. Der nächstgelegene Trader Joes ist 100 Meilen entfernt in St. Louis, MO. Ich würde lieben die Chance, mit jemandem darüber zu diskutieren. 31. BRUCE VANDEN BOS hat auf 1122012 11:26:11 PM LIKE JEDER ANDERE, DIE KONTAKT SIE, ICH DENKE DAS LEONARDTOWNLEXINGTON PARK MD BEREICH WÜRDE EIN GROßER STANDORT FÜR DAS STARTEN EINES TRADER JOES SEIN. JEDER KENNEN IHNEN DRIVES 45 MIN ODER MEHR, UM EINEN BESTEHENDEN TRADER JOES ZU SCHAUEN. WENN SIE ZAHLEN, WENN SIE GELEGENHEIT ZUM STARTEN EINES FRANCHISE IM IN. 32. Pamela Burkard sagte auf 1132012 8:33:22 PM Trader Joes würde passen in die Insel Ambiente von New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA Ich würde gerne öffnen Sie es bitte Informationen weiter. 33. kevin gay hat gesagt auf 1142012 9:30:51 am appleton wi. Braucht ein joes wir fahren nach milwaukee. Wir lieben, joes zu kaufen. Als Hauskoch Ich liebe alle Zutaten und Ihre vielfältige Palette von Produkten. Bringen ein zu Appleton ASAP 34. Kevin Gaty sagte auf 1152012 10:40:59 AM Woodhaven Michigan. Idealer Ort viel lokaler Erleichterung von der lokalen Regierung. Auch in der Nähe von I 75. So die Chance von Ohio Verkehr ist groß. Es gibt derzeit eine Kmart gehen aus der Wirtschaft, die Im sicher, dass die Stadt würde Ihnen ein großes Geschäft real für Steuerzwecke. Auch gibt es Tonnen von Unternehmen rund. Nur ein Gedanke. Ich habe mit viel diskutiert und alle haben das Gefühl, wenn man einen Standort in diesem Bereich Sie wouldn 't sorry. Habe schöne Ferien. 35. Laura Rendeczky sagte auf 11102012 10:46:45 AM Ich bin daran interessiert, in die Möglichkeit der Eröffnung einer Franchise in Springfield Illinois. Bitte senden Sie Informationen 36. Priscilla cusenbary sagte am 11142012 12:15:21 PM Hallo Ich interessiere mich für die Möglichkeit suchen Eröffnung eines Händlers joes Franchise in meiner Stadt. Graham Texas 2 Stunden nördlich von Dallas. Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich cusenbaryatt. net. Danke. Priscilla cusenbary 37. Diane Johnson sagte am 11182012 3:42:19 PM Ich interessiere mich für ein Trader Joes in Marinette Wisconsin. Dies wäre ein großartiges Gebiet zu bauen. Jede Chance auf eine Franchise für diesen Bereich Wir sind 50 Meilen von Green Bay Wi. Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich auf jede Weise. Vielen Dank 38. Budhi Keren sagte am 11182012 11.31.42 Uhr Ich bin daran interessiert, ein Trader Joes in London, Ontario, Kanada. Ich würde lieben, Ihren Speicher hier in Kanada zu haben. Bitte weiterleiten. 39. armon nagpal sagte auf 1212012 8:11:36 PM hi das ist armon nagpal ich bin im Geschäft seit 10 Jahren in Ontario Kanada und ich bin interessiert, eine Franchise von Händler Joes Store in Ontario Kanada zu eröffnen. Bitte antworten Dank 40. Heidi Clark sagte am 1222012 11:27:40 Der nächste Trader Joes zu mir ist 3 Stunden entfernt. Meine ganze Familie und viele Freunde sind loyale Fans. Wir sind in der Tri-State-Bereich von Ashland, Kentucky, Huntington, West Virginia und Ironton, Ohio entfernt. Bitte informieren Sie uns über die Teilnahme am Unternehmen. 41. jennifer nemeth sagte am 1242012 10:01:28 PM Woodhaven, MI wäre ein fantastischer Ort für einen Händler joes. Wir haben soace auf van Horn. Perfekt für alle downriver Menschen, die zu novi 45 min-1 Stunde fahren. 42. Kathy sagte am 1292012 6:37:21 Might genauso gut Erie, PA auf der Liste. Nächsten Läden sind Cleveland und Pittsburgh Wir kaufen TJs, wo immer wir sie und wir waren in 48 Staaten. 43. Saniya khan sagte am 12162012 9:29:36 PM Wir leben im Osten Lansing MI. Die Heimat der Spartaner, mitten im Herzen der Michigan State University. Dies wäre ein idealer Standort für einen Händler Joes mit einer erheblichen Bevölkerung von Menschen, die bezahlbar wollen. Gesunde gesunde Nahrungsmittelprodukte. Perfekt für Mitte Michigan. Der nächste Händler joes ist eine Stunde und eine Hälfte von uns entfernt. 44. Lorraine Nelson sagte auf 12172012 7:12:20 PM Ich interessiere mich für die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes in der Dalles, OR 97058 Bereich. Der nächste Trader Joes ist in Vancouver, WA. Die etwa 82 Meilen entfernt ist. Würden Sie mir Informationen über die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes. Danke. 45. Rabani Sadeed sagte auf 12172012 7:20:38 PM Ich lebe in Laguna Niguel, Kalifornien. and Ich bin interessiert, ein Franchise-Händler-Joes-Store zu eröffnen, Bitte antworten. Danke, Rabani Sadeed 46. bill chapman sagte auf 12232012 8:19:04 Ich lebe in Atlanta, aber ich besuche meinen Bruder, der in Valdosta, Georgia lebt. Valdosta ist zentral gelegen in Süd-Georgien und ich und mein Bruder würde sicherlich gerne in eine Franchise-Chance für ein Geschäft dort aussehen. 47. Tschadbälge sagte auf 12282012 12:26:31 AM Phoenix Arizona Nordphoenix 23rd ave und glückliches Tal rd. Es gibt nichts dieser Gegend und dies wäre Hotspot für Händler Joes. Riesige Gemeinschaft und jeder fragt nach dieser Art von Laden in diesem Bereich. 48. Jacqueline Dean sagte auf 192013 2:32:42 PM Little Rock, AR ist eine kleine, aber schnell wachsende Stadt, die Bedürfnisse und würde für ein Trader Joes Liebe. Es gibt nichts wie es hier und ich würde gerne eine beginnen. 49. Leif sagte auf 192013 11:00:38 PM Dito für alle anderen. Ogden utah. Nächstgelegene Händler joes Is in s. l.c. Ogden ist vorangekommen hat ein starkes Wirtschaftswachstum durch die Höhen und Tiefen gehabt. Händler Joes wäre ehrfürchtig in ogdens Zukunft. Alle Möglichkeiten zur Verfügung Ich würde gerne helfen. Leif 50. Janet Luntz sagte auf 1182013 10:58:58 PM Würde gerne über Franchise-Möglichkeiten in der Nähe von Canton, Ohio hören. 51. Chip sagte auf 1192013 3:05:05 PM Ich interessiere mich für ein Traders Joes in der Memphis, Tennessee Bereich. Meine Familie und ich liebe die in Raleigh, NC und gehen jedes Mal, wenn wir besuchen. Ich würde gerne eine nach Memphis zu bringen. Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich über dieses Projekt. 52. Meg sagte auf 1202013 8:38:40 PM Mit einem Herzen für Gesundheit und Ernährung, bin ich daran interessiert, ein Trader Joes nach New Albany, Ohio. New Albany ist die Heimat der Limited Brands Headquarters entlang mehrere CEOs, Ärzte, Rechtsanwälte, Unternehmer, etc. Trader Joes würde sehr profitieren die Gegend so viele Menschen hier haben, um ungünstig reisen eine Möglichkeit, an die nächste Position zu gelangen. Ich würde gerne mehr Informationen über diese und freuen uns auf die Bereitstellung dieser Bereich 53. Sue sagte auf 1212013 7:51:44 AM Iowa CityCedar Rapids Korridor braucht einen Händler Joes Die einzige im ganzen Bundesstaat Iowa ist in West Des Moines. Dieser Bereich ist die Heimat der U von I und nur an I80 und I380 einfachen Zugang zu allen umliegenden Gemeinden. Wie können wir dies geschehen 54. Linda Trask sagte auf 1212013 11:43:51 AM Lafayette, Louisiana braucht Trader Joes. Wie haben yall vollständig den Süden vermisst 55. Stacy Williamson sagte auf 1232013 8:38:23 AM Ich bin extrem daran interessiert, ein Händler Joes in Brunswick County NC öffnen. Wir haben durchschnittlich 7 Familien pro Tag in die Gegend. Wir haben Ocean Isle Beach, Holden Beach, Sunset Beach und Oak Island in dieser Grafschaft. Wir haben eine Menge von Urlaubern in der Sommerzeit und wir haben mehrere Cross-Fit-Turnhallen, die gesunde Aufmerksamkeit in der gesamten Grafschaft zu fördern. Mein Mann und ich trainieren 5-6 Tage die Woche und essen gesund. Dieses würde aufregend sein, dieses zu unserer Gemeinschaft 56 zu holen. Becky sagte auf 1232013 12:21:38 PM Ich bin in Madison, AL und stimme völlig überein, was geschrieben wurde über warum Trader Joes hier so gut tun würde. Wir haben ein paar ähnliche Orte, aber sie sind zu teuer und nicht annähernd so einzigartig oder freundlich. Ich würde gerne eine TJ-Franchise zu eröffnen 57. Rachel sagte am 1242013 5:12:27 PM Flagstaff, Arizona. Perfekte Lage und demografische für eine TJs. Bitte senden Sie uns Informationen. Vielen Dank. 58. sarah vollerer sagte auf 1282013 3:01:56 PM Ich lebe in Clarksville, TN aber ich muss nach Nashville für alles ferngesunde reisen. Wir sind in der dringenden Notwendigkeit eines lokalen Lebensmittelgeschäfts mit besseren Optionen dann Krogers oder Publix. Ich wünschte, ich könnte ein Geschäft wie Trader Joes. 59. Kathryn sagte auf 1282013 4:42:17 PM Green Bay, WI braucht einen TJ. Milwaukee ist zu weit, um zu fahren und JEDER hier Liebt TJ. Würde gerne eine Franchise hier zu eröffnen. Wann werden Sie Franchise. Betrachten Sie alle Gelegenheit oben für Sie. 60. laurie estrada sagte am 1312013 1:42:28 PM Roscoe Ill wäre der perfekte Ort für einen Trader Joes. Dies ist ein wohlhabender Mittelklasse-Bereich mit vielen aufstrebenden modernen Restaurants. Bitte senden Sie mir Infos über die Geschäftsmöglichkeit. Vielen Dank 61. Bobbee Alkema sagte auf 222013 12:22:34 PM Dieser Artikel sagt, dass Sie nicht Franchise, sondern dass Sie verkaufen an Anbieter. Bitte erklären Sie mir und sagen Sie mir, was verfügbar ist. Interessiert an den Zustand von NC vermutlich Pinehurst Bereich. 62. Justin Orr sagte am 222013 9:00:43 PM Ich würde gerne einige Informationen über Vendor Chancen erhalten. Ich kaufe an den Indianapolis-, Indiana-Positionen und ich würde lieben, die Produkte zum Greenfield und zu den neuen Schloßbereichen östlich von Indy zu holen. Vielen Dank 63. Kate G sagte am 242013 1:17:55 PM WarwickFlorida, NY. Bitte senden Sie eine Verkäufer-Info. Als TJs Shopper jede Woche für 10 Jahre machte mich Fan von diesem Label. 64. Chantal Schmonsees sagte auf 262013 4:27:35 PM Wären Sie daran interessiert, eröffnen Geschäfte in Beirut, Libanon (Naher Osten) und Dubai Wir würden gerne verkaufen die Produkte (vielleicht andere Namen als Trader Joes), aber die gleichen Produkte. Bitte geben Sie an, ob Sie an dieser neuen Marktchance interessiert sind. 65. Brad Grattan sagte am 282013 12:31:35 Kalispell MT. Unser Tal wäre ein großartiger Ort für ein Geschäft. 66. Truc Ly sagte am 2122013 4:42:24 PM Mishawaka, IN. Sie öffnen eine ganze Lebensmittel, aber das ist zu teuer für einige. Händler würden für diese Stadt gut sein. Notre Dame ist nebenan und wir haben 4 weitere Colleges wie St. Marys, Bethel College und IU. Barnes n Noble eröffnete ein neues Gebäude und verließ die alte leer auf Grape Rd. 67. robert young sagte auf 2132013 3:09:07 PM interessiert an einer Franchise von Trader Joes in Stroudsburg pa, 68. Geri Kelly sagte am 2152013 2:54:01 PM Westminster, MD. 21158. Obwohl es heißt, dass Trader Joes nicht direkt bieten Franchise-Möglichkeiten, kann ich immer noch in der Lage, ihre Produkte zu verkaufen. Nicht sicher, was der Unterschied ist, würde aber gerne mehr Informationen darüber, wie dies zu tun. 69. Karla K Poppy sagte auf 2162013 6:58:48 PM New London WI. Wir hoffen jedoch, dass sie bei Ihrer Reiseplanung weiterhilft. Original auf Englisch Language Weaver Bewerten Sie diese Übersetzung: Vielen Dank für Ihre Bewertung Mangelhaft Gut Würde gerne Franchise haben 70. p nagar sagte auf 2172013 4:50:49 PM Liebe zu eigenen in San Francisco Bucht Bereich 71. Rhonda Littlefield sagte auf 2192013 8:36:28 Wäre lieben, einige Informationen über Vendor Gelegenheit zu erhalten. Vielen Dank. 72. Colleen Overstreet sagte auf 2192013 7:29:51 PM Godfrey Illinois, Bereich Madison County, Interesse an Trader Joes speichern. Keine in unmittelbarer Nähe. 73. Susan Fried sagte auf 2262013 7:19:43 PM Ashland, Kentucky versucht, einen frischen Markt hier in unserer Gemeinde zu starten. Wir sind begeistert, dass ein Trader Joes in Lexington eröffnet hat, aber wir würden gerne einen hier sehen. Derzeit bin ich in einem Ausschuss, die in den Prozess der Erforschung und Blick in Optionen für die Ashland Bereich ist. Ist es möglich, als Händler beginnen und ein voller Markt zu werden, sobald es offensichtlich geworden ist, dass es eine Nachfrage nach frischen, organischen, köstlichen Erzeugnissen, Fleisch und Lebensmitteln gibt. 74. John Wright sagte auf 2272013 11:25:09 Ich lebe in Takoma Park, MD. Während ich beim Trader Joes in DC und Bethesda einkaufen wollte, wollte ich immer zu einem TJs in meiner Heimatstadt gehen. Die Kultur des Speichers wäre eine ideale Passform für die Atmosphäre in unserer Gemeinde. Ich würde gerne lesen Sie mehr Informationen über dies eine Realität. 75. Suzanne Pierick sagte am 312013 8:49:57 PM Mein Mann und ich sind daran interessiert, ein Trader Joes in Traverse City Michigan zu öffnen. Wir würden gerne einige Franchise-Informationen. Ich habe bei vielen Trader Joes in vielen Staaten eingekauft, und fühlen sich unsere Gegend könnte erheblich von einem Trader Joes profitieren. 76. Carrie sagte auf 382013 11:27:36 AM Ich würde gerne ein Trader Joes in St. Charles, MO zu sehen. Wir können sicherlich unterstützen den Laden hier. Ich fahre 20 Minuten oder länger nach Creve Coeur, MO, die am nächsten ist. Was sind die notwendigen Schritte, um diesen Plan in Aktion zu setzen Danke 77. Chris Wickland sagte auf 3192013 12:13:32 AM Ich bin interessiert an Informationen über die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes in Eau Claire, WI. Unsere nächste TJs ist in Woodbury, MN, die über eine Stunde Fahrt ist. Ich fühle mich der Eau Claire Bereich braucht mehr organische Entscheidungen. Vielen Dank. 78. kim smith sagte auf 3202013 11:30:26 AM Obwohl es zwei Händler Joes in der Region Portland Oregon gibt es keine für die Gresham sandigen Bereich. Es wäre so ein Erfolg 79. Alex sagte auf 3232013 8:47:04 Kannst du plz Rat, wie man Trader Joes in Nj öffnen 80. Janet Hadt sagte auf 3242013 12:29:23 PM Nur wollte Sie wissen, nur wissen Der richtige Raum, den ich denke, ist verfügbar in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Nicht daran interessiert, eine aber gedacht jemand sollte. Dies ist eine wachsende Gemeinschaft. Mayo und Marshfield Ärzte, Wander-und Radwege. Schöne Stadt. Trader Joes wäre eine wirklich gute Passform für die Stadt. Nur Trader joes von uns ist in South St. Paul Minnesota, die 90 Meilen entfernt ist. Wenn Sie weitere Informationen wünschen, kontaktieren Sie die Kammer in Eau Claire. 81. Stacy sagte auf 3242013 5:33:40 PM Ich bin wirklich daran interessiert, ein Trader Joes Store in Lincolnshire, IL zu eröffnen. Wo hat die Top-Schulsystem und hohe Einkommen in den Staat. Können Sie mir bitte mehr Informationen schicken 82. Albert Barksdale sagte auf 3252013 9:21:45 AM Wunsch, einen Händler Joes in Athen, AL gerade an der Interstate I-65 zu starten. Große Nähe zu Huntsville, Decatur, Nashville, Birmingham, etc., ohne das Verkehrsproblem in diesen Bereichen. Emailen Sie mich mit den Details, um zu beginnen. Vielen Dank ADB 83. Tonnett sagte auf 3272013 5:06:45 PM Ich bin interessiert am Starten eines Trader Joes in Bullhead City, AZ oder in Kingman, AZ. Unser nächstgelegener Platz ist in Las Vegas, NV. Ich habe einen Sohn mit so vielen Allergien und braucht spezielle Lebensmittel (frisch), ich habe so viele andere Leute hier, die auch gerne besser essen würden. Bitte senden Sie mir die Informationen zu. Vielen Dank 84. Jonathon Sass sagte auf 422013 8:48:58 PM Früher habe ich in Chino Hills Kalifornien, wo ich zum ersten Mal entdeckt Trader Joes, habe ich seit bewegt, um eine große kleine Stadt in der Nähe von Syracuse namens Manlius, hat diese Stadt wurde ein gewählt Der Top-100 besten Orte zu leben, seine eine große familienorientierte und gesunde Ort zu leben und ich würde geehrt, einen Händler Joes Store in meiner Stadt zu öffnen, nehmen Sie mich bitte in Betrachtung für diese Gelegenheit. Vielen Dank Jonathon sass 85. Edgar sagte auf 432013 4:08:16 PM Ich interessiere mich sehr für die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes in Brevard County, Florida scheint es dort ein paar an der Westküste von FL aber keine an der Ostküste. Ich möchte der Gemeinschaft auf einem erschwinglichen Weg, um eine ausgezeichnete Gesundheit zu helfen. Viera, Florida wäre wahrscheinlich das beste, was die Stadt baut sich schnell und es ist zentral gelegen und nicht weit von Orlando. Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich mit weiteren Informationen danke 86. Marc Patty Macomber sagte auf 4132013 5:04:57 PM Ich arbeite derzeit für eine Fortune 500 Company namens Dwyer Group. 1500 Franchise in sieben verschiedenen Konzepten. Ich habe 20 yrs Erfahrung im Laufen ein Geschäft und Marketing bundesweit. Ich interessiere mich für ein Trader Joes (Ich weiß, dass Sie nicht Franchise derzeit) die NW Vororte von Minneapolis. Die Leute hier sind sehr viel in die körperliche Fitness und gesundes Leben. Es wäre eine gute Passform. 87. Ein Raeisi sagte auf 4172013 2:19:23 PM Ich interessiere mich für Informationen über die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes in Dubai, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate. Ich fühle den Golf braucht mehr gesunde und organische Entscheidungen. Vielen Dank. 88. Jas Sandhu sagte auf 4172013 4:16:11 PM Hallo, ich bin interessiert an der Eröffnung eines Händlers Joes in Bellingham, Wa oder irgendwo im Bundesstaat Wa. Bitte geben Sie mir die Informationen und Möglichkeiten zur Verfügung. Vielen Dank. Grüße, Jas. 89. Debbie White sagte auf 4202013 8:03:32 PM Ich habe Trader Joes mehrmals in Virginia besucht und an deine Produkte glauben. Ich lebe in der Lake Mary, Florida Gegend, die sehr hoch bewertet ist in den besten Städten zu leben und fühlen Trader Joes würde eine wunderbare Ergänzung zu unserer Stadt zu machen. Ich würde die Gelegenheit lieben, ein Teil dieser fantastischen Marke zu sein. Bitte weiterleiten. Vielen Dank, Debbie White 90. Amarilys Silva sagte auf 4242013 10:43:05 PM Ich interessiere mich für Franchise-Möglichkeiten in Puerto Rico 91. Michelle Mohler sagte auf 532013 5:57:07 PM Ich bin ein Händler Joes Enthusiasten ohne einen lokalen Händler Joes Ich würde gerne einen Händler Joes in Chambersburg, PA 17201 92. Chris Hills sagte auf 542013 11:46:22 Ich liebe Trader Joes und denke, es ist eine wunderbare Gelegenheit auf Johns Island, SC außerhalb von Charleston, SC 93. Marcy Pippenger sagte auf 592013 9:51:13 PM Mein Mann und ich sind daran interessiert, ein Trader Joes in Eau Claire Wisconsin zu betreiben. Wir fahren zurzeit 1 Stunde nach MN, um unsere wunderbaren Produkte zu bekommen. Wir haben beide Master-Abschlüsse und sind in Aufsichtspositionen. Ich freue mich darauf, von dir zu hören. 94. Jonathon Sass sagte auf 5142013 6:40:04 Ich habe mein Interesse an der Eröffnung eines Händlers joes in meiner Stadt, aber nie eine Antwort erhalten, hat jemand eine Antwort erhalten Trader Joes Ich habe die Mittel, um dies geschehen, Aber ich frage mich, ob dies nur als Suchmaschine verwendet wird, um Standorte für Ihren eigenen Gewinn zu finden. 95. Georgia Tusch sagte auf 5222013 9:27:59 PM Ich bin ein Unternehmer leben in London, Kanada. Ich würde gerne einen Händler Joes in Toronto zu öffnen, wenden Sie sich bitte an 96. Rick Blake sagte auf 6132013 12:07:47 PM Wir denken, dass Trader Joes würde sehr gut in Lynchburg, VA zu tun. Meine Frau und ich haben Erfahrung, die gut bei der Ausführung dieser Operation. Ich besitze und betreibe ein Unternehmen seit über zwanzig Jahren. Lynchburg, VA ist eine wachsende Stadt, und mit Liberty University, einer wachsenden christlichen Universität, der größten christlichen Universität der Welt, haben wir eine wachsende und vielfältige Bevölkerung, die ein Trader Joes lieben würde. Ich hoffe, Sie würden prüfen, Lynchburg, VA 97. Scott Whip sagte auf 7102013 12:00:46 Trader Joes nicht verkaufen Franchises. Es ist ein privates Unternehmen. 98. Jason Huey sagte auf 8282013 6:58:46 PM Ich bin in der Nähe von Reading, Pa. Der nächste Trader Joes ist 40 Minuten entfernt. Ich würde gerne eine Franchise hier zu eröffnen. Bitte kontaktieren Sie 99. Leo sagte auf 992013 8:55:40 PM Ich bin interessiert am Starten eines Trader Joes in Ormond Strand FL. Closest Trader Joes ist in Gainesville8206 FL8206. 105 Meilen. Bitte senden Sie mir die Informationen zu. Vielen Dank. Leo 100. Chris sagte auf 9132013 8:52:50 Ich lebe in Boise Idaho sind hier seit über 20 Jahren. Sie waren bereits im trader joes all over in meine Reisen was für ein tolles Hotel. Liebe es. Boise wächst extrem schnell, da große Unternehmen ihre Firmen - und Produktionsstätten weiterführen. Ich denke, das wäre ein großartiger Ort, um einen Händler Joes zu bringen. Ich interessiere mich sehr für Ihr Unternehmen und würde die Gelegenheit lieben, Ihr wundervolles Unternehmen und Produkte zu unserem Zustand zu holen. Will warten, um mehr über diese Gelegenheit zu erfahren. Vielen Dank 101. josephine davi sagte auf 9232013 1:34:48 PM Ich würde gerne einen Händler joes Franchise, wie Geld muss ich anfangen 102. Jane Garcia sagte auf 10242013 9:35:37 PM Ich brauche Informationen, wie zu Öffnen Sie einen Händler Joes in der hohen Wüste VictorvilleApple Valley Bereich. Ive gewesen ein Shopper und ein Fan von Trader Joes für viele Jahre. Ich würde eine Gelegenheit lieben, einen Händler Joes zu öffnen. 103. KIM sagte auf 1162013 11:31:41 morgens Ich benötige Informationen, wie man einen Händler Joes im GeistMcCorsville IN Bereich öffnet. Ive gewesen ein Shopper und ein Fan von Trader Joes für viele Jahre und teilen die guten Sachen mit der Nachbarschaft. Ich würde eine Gelegenheit lieben, einen Händler Joes zu öffnen. 104. Anthony Mujic sagte auf 11192013 10:04:33 AM Ich interessiere mich für ein Trader Joes Franchise-Gelegenheit. Lake Mary Florida, 32746 Postleitzahl. Standort hat vollkommene Demographie und ich habe Leute mit Jahren der Managementerfahrung erfahren. Bitte beraten. Dank 105. Rhonda SIllitoe sagte auf 1202014 7:47:48 PM Mein Mann und ich interessieren uns für einen Händler Joes Franchise in der Greenville N C Bereich zu öffnen. Bitte senden Sie mir Informationen zu meiner Anfrage. Danke, Rhonda Sillitoe 252-945-0720 106. Colleen sagte auf 1272014 9:15:13 PM Ich würde gerne ein TJs in Seekonk MA 02771 starten. Meine Freunde und ich reisen 30 Minuten bis zur nächsten. Bitte senden Sie mir Infos über Franchise-Möglichkeiten .. 107. Sandra Hudson sagte auf 232014 12:17:19 PM Ich bin daran interessiert, zu sehen, was erforderlich ist, um eine TJ in Putnam County, Eatonton, Georgia, Lake Oconee Bereich zu öffnen. LaKe Oconee ist ein Ferienort für viele und hat nur begrenzte Einkaufsmöglichkeiten. Es gibt ein perfektes etabliertes Einkaufszentrum, wo ein TJ passen würde perfekt. 108. Annemarie Frye sagte auf 252014 7:46:18 PM Greenwood, Indiana, ist ein großes Gebiet, zum eines Händler Joes zu haben. Ich kenne viele Menschen, die gerne einen näher als fast eine Stunde Autofahrt entfernt haben. Wir würden gerne ein offenes hier auf der Südseite von Indianapolis zu sehen. 109. Cindy MacLeod sagte am 2162014 9:36:40 PM Mein Mann und ich würde gerne erkundigen über die Eröffnung eines Trader Joes in Moorhead, MN 56560. Die nächste, die wir kennen ist in Maple Grove, Mn und denke, es wäre ein Große Asset für unsere Gemeinschaft. 110. Thomas Conley sagte auf 4102014 9:22:53 PM Ich lebe in Portland, Maine, wo es einen Händler Joes. Aber in Bangor, Maine gibt es Bedarf für eine Qualität Lebensmittelgeschäft, das nicht Wal Mart oder Hannafords und die Notwendigkeit dort ist. I think it would be crazy to wait on this as there are a lot of people asking the question when will Trader Joes Go north. 111. Molly said on 4162014 10:46:27 AM Would love to start a TJs in Missoula, MT 59801, with my husband. Its a college town and health oriented. Would do VERY well here. 112. Trent Jennifer Crowder said on 4212014 11:38:15 PM Trader Joes would be a great asset in Springfield, IL. We would be interested in it. 113. Denise Boyer said on 4272014 8:23:28 AM Just moved to myrtle beach, sc. Its full of transplants from all over the place and visitors. Im missing trader joes and I know others here are as well Vendor opportunities More info please 114. Debbie Coomer said on 522014 11:42:39 AM Southern Indiana is in need of a trader joes. With the agricultural population here, we understand the value of fresh, quality foods. I am located in Vincennes, IN, one hour north of the city of Evansville. I believe Vincennes could support a trader joes easily, and Evansville could most likely support multiple stores. I am highly interested in a franchise opportunity with the trader joes company. Thanks 115. Nancy Charnas said on 562014 4:07:02 PM I live in Cortland Ohio in the YoungstownWarren area. We are in desperate need of an all organic wholesome food store that people can trust. I strongly believe that this area has a large draw for such a store 116. Allison Blauhorn said on 572014 9:36:01 PM Any possible chance of Trader Joes coming to Grand Island, Nebraska. I love health and nutrition and would love to open a Trader Joes here, as the closest one is 110 miles away. We do not have a health food store in Grand Island and I am interested in starting a TJ here. Thanks 117. Kelly Davis said on 652014 2:39:34 PM Kalispell Montana needs Trader Joes. 118. SANDY said on 6102014 4:35:50 PM I would like to open a Trader Joes in Hawthorne, CA 90250. I am highly interested in a opportunity with the Trader Joes company. Pls. contact me ASAP 119. Scott Parvin said on 6122014 11:02:05 PM TJs would be very popular in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Are there plans to expand into Canada We are interested in opening a franchise if there opportunities in the future. What a great idea 120. Jann said on 6142014 6:00:06 AM BANGOR, MAINE please. nearest is over 2 hrs away. huge draw from US and C Acadian buyers. Thank you 121. Dev Saha said on 6142014 8:51:27 PM Hi, I was wondering whether you would be interested to have Trader Joe in Winchester and Woburn area of Massachusetts. A Trader Joe would be a great experience for Winchester and Woburn people. Please contact me if you are interested. Vielen Dank. 122. Brett Messink said on 6282014 10:44:08 AM I feel that my city, Rockford, IL 61103, could benefit greatly from a Trader Joes and I would love to open one to provide that opportunity for my area and its people. My Fiancee and I are very interested in a franchise opportunity with the Trader Joes company and would like more information in that regard. Please contact me any time. Vielen Dank. 123. Stephanie bonanno said on 752014 10:39:15 AM Ankeny, IA would be the perfect place for a Trader Joes. The nearest store is in West Des Moines, which is 30-1 hr drive. The community would greatly benefit, and the store would thrive in this large suburb. I would love to be a part of the success I know it would bring. 124. Garrett Groce said on 772014 1:30:30 AM Trader Joes would do fantastic in Columbus, Ga. Our community is thriving and business is doing very well here. Ft. Benning military base is our neighbor and we are located on the GaAl border. Health and Fitness is booming here, thanks in part to our new white water rafting and revamped downtown area. I am very much interested in what it would take to open a TJ here because I am a huge of your product and know it would be a huge success. My family is in Real Estate and help navigate the best location for a booming TJ 125. Lorraine Bortner said on 7112014 10:34:59 AM Would love vendor information. In York, pa we have no whole food options. 126. D Lucas said on 7122014 2:30:23 PM In need of Trader Joes - Springfield, IL. Closest is St. Louis, hour and a half away 127. Meredyth R said on 7162014 10:29:54 AM Hoping to start up a Trader Joes in Ramsey NJ. Closest one is 12 hour away not very big and not a convenient location. 128. Laurie Chenoweth said on 7162014 7:37:48 PM Hi, I am an R. N. in Reno NV. Reno is thriving and growing at this time. I would love to be a vendor or run a store in the Spanish springs area of Reno. I would greatly appreciate you checking it out and see what you think. -) 129. Lisa Schroder said on 7242014 4:35:27 PM I am interested in learning more about investing in the Trader Joes franchise. I live in Erie, Pennsylvania and feel like it would be a perfect fit for our community. The closest one is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania which is 2 hours away. Please send me information Thank you. 130. Sean Welsh said on 832014 7:46:00 PM I was interested in developing one in the Monroeville, Pa area the closest one is in the Shadyside area of Pittsburgh. Just curious if the possibility is possible. Thank you for your time. 131. Steve OBrien said on 862014 9:30:54 AM Looking to open a Trader Joes in Long island NY 132. Moosa Quadri said on 922014 8:51:26 AM Hello SirMam. I would like to open a Traders Joe in Loudoun county VA in suburbs of Ashburn area. Would you please send me some information. Loudoun county is fastest growing county in the country and also the richest. Thank you Moosa Quadri 133. Stephanie Hoffman said on 9122014 11:39:57 AM Hi..Looking to start up a business..by bringing Trader Joes to Lititz Pa. 134. Amy Hagedorn said on 9152014 7:55:30 PM I would love information on opening a trader joes in Morgantown, WV. 135. Brenda Bloyer said on 9162014 1:23:27 PM I would love information for opening a Trader Joes in Port Angeles WA. 136. Oksana said on 9202014 9:33:22 AM I would love to open Trader Joes in fresh meadows ny. 137. FRANKIE BREEDLOVE said on 9222014 5:47:33 PM I am interested in a TJ Franchise in Kalamazoo, Michigan (USA) area. We have one health food store here, which is awesome considering we could have none. However, their selection is limited and they do not have the buying power of a TJ franchise so you can guess that the prices are pretty steep for most of the merchandise. -( The major organization (PFizer, Stryker, Western Michigan University, Bronson Hospital, Borgess Hospital, etc) are on a health kick so may employees and citizens are looking for healthier choices which is forcing Walmart, Meijer and the other non-traditional grocery store chains to change, but they are no TJs. I know a TJs in the Kazoo area would be a huge success. 138. Rachel Reyes said on 9252014 2:42:13 PM I recently moved to Palm Coast Florida which is on the east coast of northern Florida and was very disappointed to find no Trader Joes in close proximity. Please consider coming this way as their are only two in all of Florida. I think it would do very well especially with a gym in every shopping center. 139. Jenny smith said on 9262014 8:36:59 PM I am interested in opening a Trader Joes franchise in the mooresville NC area. I feel confident that it would be very successful in that area. 140. Naimah Hasan said on 9292014 11:19:19 PM To whom it may concern, I am very interested in opening a Trader Joes via franchise. Im currently in the position to dedicate myself to this perfect opportunity. I have a couple of excellent locations in mind. Please advise regarding the start-up process when available. Dublin, CA area. Thank you 141. Jason Wayne said on 1012014 1:56:49 PM Like many others, I am interested in opening a trader Joes (or 2) in a couple of areas where they would thrive immediately Any info on how to make that happen would be awesome. I know they do not franchise, but perhaps some other agreement could be reached. 142. carol vultaggio said on 1022014 10:12:15 AM Hi I would like to open a Trader Joes franchise in Manalapan, Florida. There us an old market for lease in a shopping plaza so start up shouldnt be a huge investment. 143. DLopez said on 10142014 10:44:30 AM Trader Joes would excel in the McAllen, Texas area. We are close to the Mexico border and our friends from Mexico love organics and there is a high demand for specialty items like the ones Trader Joes carries. We have only HEB and we would like other avenues for our groceries. Simply because 99 percent of valley residents would prefer a more competitive grocer chains other than the one mentioned before. We have the highest grossing apparel department in the nation-Dillards Please consider a store in McAllen 144. Sara Townsend said on 11162014 10:36:32 AM Derby, Kansas, USA. Its simple, a Trader Joes in Derby would be a huge money maker. We currently drive almost 3 hours away to the nearest location in Kansas City. The selection and quality of your products arent like anything we have found around here free from preservatives and artificial colors and flavors. The prices are outstanding as well. Im interested in becoming a part of the Trader Joes family. I understand you are a privately owned company. 145. Beverly Alexis said on 11162014 10:57:51 AM do you franchise in other countries as Trinidad and Tobago will like to bring the art of healthy living to my country 146. Diane said on 11172014 1:28:32 PM I would love to see a Trader Joes up here in Anchorage. Alaska. 147. Teresa said on 11192014 11:26:41 AM I am very interested in starting up a franchise in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin. Our nearest one is Milwaukee so everyone from central Wisconsin has to travel hours to shop. Hooked on your Trader Joes products 148. Janet Rooney said on 11212014 1:43:28 PM Saint John New Brunswick, Canada. I would be interested in learning more about the possibility of opening a Trader Joes in my province, New Brunswick. Ive been to Trader Joes in Califorina and, I loved it I am an entrepreneur looking for an opportunity that I am passionate about. I want to make living healthy more accessible and raise awareness through leading by example. 149. Colleen Giltner said on 11232014 2:51:04 PM Im interested in opening a store in Ocala Florida. My family and I absolutely love Trader Joess products and philosophy. Please contact me regarding an opportunity in Ocala Florida Sincerely, Colleen Giltner 150. Karen Heaton said on 11242014 9:51:11 PM Would love to open a Trader Joes in Tyler, TX - there is much opportunity here - we are 100 miles east of the one in Dallas. Please contact me with information. 151. Christopher Davis said on 11302014 6:19:52 PM Yes, please forward the information over to me as soon as possible would love to own a Trader Joes in the Elite areas of Atlanta Georgia, The next Hollywood. Sincerely, Davis 152. Paul Kreft said on 1282014 3:26:12 PM Appleton Wisconsin maybe more depending on your franchise cost fees. Thanks Paul 153. Candy said on 1292014 11:29:45 PM Valparaiso, Indiana home to Valparaiso University would possess the perfect atmosphere for a Trader Joes location. I would love to have information if you were to ever consider franchising. 154. saritha said on 12162014 3:19:12 PM Hi I am looking for a best business which is helpful to community for healthy living. Traders Joe is perfect. can you send me the details. we located in ashburn. Virginia. Thanks 155. Helen Mc Donald said on 12272014 9:50:16 AM Mountaintop, pa. Located 2 miles from intersection of I -80 I-81 crossroads of the east 156. Heidi Boehnen said on 12282014 11:46:05 AM Trader Joes would make it great in Eau Claire, WI Please send me information on opening a store. 157. Peter Schroeder said on 142015 4:59:22 PM Northeast WI is in need of a Trader Joes. It is one of the most obese regions in the US and with trends turning to healthier lifestyles it would be the perfect place for a Trader Joes. 158. Emma said on 172015 11:05:50 AM I am also interested in having a Trader Joes franchise up in Canada. Any information on ifwhen that could be possible would be greatly appreciated 159. Michelle Forrest said on 1222015 9:51:17 PM Boone, NC please Interested in opportunity here. the only health food store here is Earthfare. Big college town, headquarters for Samaritans Purse, large population of health food locals.. 160. Judy said on 1262015 5:49:10 PM Royersford or Limerick PA. Could you please email me information on all that would needed for a possible start-up store Thank you. 161. Marek said on 1292015 12:37:13 PM Clemson, SC. Interested in franchise possibility for my wife. 162. Michael Bergman said on 212015 1:56:07 AM My wife and I are interested in any information on a start up company with Trader Joes. Thanks 163. Stephanie Juncker said on 212015 1:22:29 PM My husband and I are interested in bringing a Trader Joes to the Lehi, or Provo, Utah areas. Let me know if interested 164. Hal Erickson said on 272015 12:48:05 PM would like to start up a Trader Joes in Green Bay, WI area 165. Marvin Ore said on 2242015 10:25:54 PM Would love to get some more information on TJs for Greenville NC. This is health conscious college town. 166. Terry Halterman said on 312015 1:59:02 PM We LOVED shopping at the Trader Joes in Portland, OR and are sure that a Trader Joes would thrive in El Paso, TX. People here would benefit from the healthy and varied choices and charming atmosphere. Hey, why not 167. Diane said on 362015 8:08:22 PM Would love to open a Trader Joes in the tri-city area of Michigan. Please send information. 168. Kim Howell said on 392015 2:19:16 PM 169. Brenda Scriber said on 3112015 2:48:51 PM PLEASE seriously consider building a Trader Joes in Fayetteville, NC. We need one desperately here We are the home of the 82ND ABN. ATW. Also voted the All American City AGAIN. 170. Joanne said on 3282015 1:37:46 PM ManalapanFreehold, NJ area is a great area for a traders joes - please send info 171. George Dakak said on 472015 7:29:54 PM There are no Trader Joes in my proximity in north western New Jersey. I live in a centralized town where I know many close towns do their shopping. Im a huge fan of Trader Joes and their business model, and am very interested in running a store in the HackettstownLong ValleyChester NJ area. Please send info. Vielen Dank. 172. Theresa said on 492015 2:18:53 PM Is there any chance of opening a Trader Joes here in Fairbanks, Alaska It would do extremely well here 173. Anthony Bon G said on 4102015 1:24:33 AM After living in Kansas City and experiencing Trader Joes I cannot go back to shopping at any other grocery store. The only problem is Mississippi doesnt have one ugh. Nearest Trader Joes is 120 miles away in Birmingham, AL. Would love the opportunity to start up a Trader Joes in Starkville, MS Please forward information. 174. Luana Stoltenberg said on 4102015 10:11:03 PM i would love to start a Traders Joe in the Quad Cuty area. (davenport, Iowa.). The Closeat Trader Joes is 3 hours away. I believe there is a real need in our area. Could you please send info on how to start a Traders Joes. Thanks, Luana Stoltenberg. 175. Rhodonna bellamy said on 4122015 10:26:33 AM Would love information about a trader joes. I live in a small town in north georgia and we only have two grocery stores in our county and would love to see a trader joes open. Please send me information Thank you 176. Linda Savage said on 4122015 7:08:32 PM Please open a trader joes in Leeds, Alabama. I loved shopping at trader joes when I lived in Boston Ma. Thanks, Linda 177. Lynda Betz said on 4132015 3:47:22 PM Interested in opening a Trader Joes in Union or Florence, KY. Booming area. Know many moms who drive into Cincinnati weekly for Trader Joes. know it would do well 178. Dennis Robinson said on 4152015 5:30:32 PM It would be great if you opened a TJs in the Ogden Utah area. We have a huge Military base here that is the states biggest employer and we also get thousands of families that rotate in and out of the base that have lived all over and are familiar with the brand and they love it. we also have 2 state universities near by. the only thing that is remotely similar to TJs in this entire state is Whole Foods and they cant hold a candle to all the products you sell in your stores. we got a TJs in SLC a couple years ago and I know it has to be thriving, but one location for all of northern Utah isnt enough. Please come. 179. Wayne McDole said on 4232015 2:26:17 PM when will there be a Trader Joes coming to Toledo Ohio 43623 area would like to open a store in Toledo Ohio 180. Patrick Tingley said on 5212015 3:41:05 PM I always hear people say we need a Trader Joes in Marysville, WA. And I would agree, yes we have lost some store because of a large corporation, but I think a Trader Joes would balance out what is offered in the area, and frankly its just fun to shop at a Trader Joes. 181. Chris said on 5242015 11:25:03 PM We need a trader joes in CANADA. specifically Winnipeg, Manitoba. 182. Chris said on 5312015 3:04:03 PM Interested in opening a Trader Joes in Morehead City - Newport NC. Please send information. It will do very well in this area with the Marine Base and just the general population in the area nothing really here like it. 183. Erin kushner said on 612015 6:15:34 PM Hickory, NC. Great location for a Trader Joes 184. Cheri Newman said on 622015 2:25:55 PM I grew up with Trader Joes in California and Id love to become a vendor where I live now in Cocoa Beach, FL. There are no T. J.s in Central Florida where I have now lived for four years. When I first moved here, I put my name on a petition to open a store within the vicinity. However, since that has not happened and there are no franchise opportunities, becoming a vendor and selling the products out of a nutritional store is the next best thing. Could you please send me information on vendor opportunities. Thank you 185. Christine Rodriguez said on 692015 1:46:50 PM In desperate need of a TJs in Ft. Myers. WE have to travel 35 minutes to the Naples, Florida store. Help 186. Tessa Bowman said on 6262015 3:13:03 AM I am interested in a Franchise of Trader Joes. Who would I contact How much would the franchise cost How would I get started How long does it take to purhase and get the Business open Thank you, Tessa 187. Maxx Jen said on 6282015 12:29:07 PM We currently drive 1 hour to the closest TJs once a week. We would love to open a loval vendor site offering some of their most popular products. More information on this would be fantastic, Ill be sure to ask the manager today. (On our way there now ) Maxx Jen Waterford, CT 188. Edna Olea said on 7292015 12:59:44 AM Our nearest Trader is 45 minutes away, me and my husband have worked in sale and good love to put one in Tubac, Az. Please send information. Vielen Dank. 189. Michael John said on 842015 9:39:26 PM 190. hardeep dhadli said on 8122015 3:38:09 PM need a trader joes in Yuba city (California 95993) have a location in best part of town. since it is not a franchise the company can build one at the location. who do I contact for that. 191. Easy said on 8172015 6:05:17 PM How stupid are you people Trader Joes is in no way affiliated with this site. They are a private company and they do not franchise. You cant start a Trader Joes. Seriously, if you know so little about a company and how it operates how can you possibly think that you have what it takes to run one of their stores You can go to Trader Joes actual website to learn more about them. Cmon. You people make the internet sad. And dumb. 192. Kirk Maneval said on 4112016 8:02:54 AM Anyone heard of Whitefish, MT. Voted one of the top ten towns for snow skiing by National Geographic. This would be an awesome place for a Trader Joes. Would love to be a part of the startup. 193. Mehrdad Daei said on 6242016 10:32:09 AM I live in Cumming Georgia and I would say being a Trader Joes Customer, we really need one in this location. The housing market is booming in this area and a lot of people have moved to this area the past few years. Im willing to open up a trader Joes in this location. Science Blogs For something intangible, a glance can be a powerful thing. It can carry the weight of culture and history, it can cause psychological harm, and it can act as a muzzle. Consider the relatively simple act of a man staring at a woman8217s body. This is such a common part of modern society that most of us rarely stop to think of its consequences, much less investigate it with a scientific lens. Tamar Saguy is different. Leading a team of Israeli and US psychologists, she has shown that women become more silent if they think that men are focusing on their bodies. They showed that women who were asked to introduce themselves to an anonymous male partner spent far less time talking about themselves if they believed that their bodies were being checked out. Men had no such problem. Nor, for that matter, did women if they thought they were being inspected by another woman. Saguy8217s study is one of the first to provide evidence of the social harms of sexual objectification 8211 the act of treating people as 8220 de-personalised objects of desire instead of as individuals with complex personalities8221. It targets women more often than men. It8217s apparent in magazine covers showing a woman in a sexually enticing pose, in inappropriate comments about a colleague8217s appearance, and in unsolicited looks at body parts. These looks were what Saguy focused on. She recruited 207 students, 114 of whom were women, on the pretence of studying how people communicate using expressions, gestures and vocal cues. Each one sat alone in a room with a recorder and video camera. They had two minutes to introduce themselves to a male or female partner, using a list of topics such as 8220plans for the future8221 or 8220four things you like doing the most8221. The partner was supposedly sat in the next room and either watching the speaker from the neck up, watching from the neck down, or just listening on audio. The camera was tilted or blocked accordingly. Saguy found that women talked about themselves for less time than men, but only if they thought they were being visually inspected by a man, and particularly if they thought their bodies were being checked out. They used the full two minutes if they were describing themselves to another woman (no matter where the camera was pointing) or if they were speaking to a man who could hear but not see them. But if their partner was a man watching their bodies, they spoke for just under one-and-a-half minutes. You can see these differences in the graph below (although note that the y-axis starts at 60, a practice I don8217t particularly like). Men had no such qualms. They used the full two minutes regardless of whether they were being watched or listened to, and no matter the gender of their partner. The fact that men didn8217t react in the same way is important. For a start, it shows that it8217s a man8217s gaze and not just any downward glance that affects a woman8217s behaviour. It also puts paid to the false equivalence arguments that are often put forward when discussing gender issues (i. e. 8220women look at male bodies too8221). When the students answered a questionnaire after the experiment, both men and women 8220felt more like a body than as a real person8221 if the camera focused on them from the neck down. But only the women were really put off by it. Around 61 of them disliked the body-pointed camera, compared to just 32 who disliked the face-pointing one or 7 who disliked the audio. For the men, 36 disliked the body camera, 42 disliked the face one and 22 disliked the audio. As Saguy explains, 8220When a woman believes that a man is focusing on her body, she narrows her presence8230 by spending less time talking.8221 There are a few possible reasons for this. Saguy suspects that objectification prompts women to align their behaviour with what8217s expected of them 8211 silent things devoid of other interesting traits. Treat someone like an object, and they8217ll behave like one. Alternatively, worries about their appearance might simply distract them from the task at hand. Obviously, this experiment used a fairly artificial scenario. In the real world, social interactions are more complicated and objectification can take place more subtly, with a quick glance rather than a blatantly angled camera. Even so, these behaviours don8217t go unnoticed. They could be major problems if the same detrimental silencing effect in Saguy8217s study applies in real-world situations where being vocal is important for success 8211 job interviews, work meetings, networking sessions, classrooms and more. There will always be hardened lechers among us but often, objectification happens without us thinking about it or becoming aware of it. It8217s time, perhaps, that more of us did. Reference . Saguy et al. 2010. Interacting Like a Body: Objectification Can Lead Women to Narrow Their Presence in Social Interactions. Psychological Science dx. doi. org10.11770956797609357751 More on gender issues: January 12, 2010 This is such bullshit8230 women have been sexual booty for aeons. They know it. And they know they don8217t need to talk to get the guy. It is only very recently, perhaps, that more egalitarian societies exist, that try to socialize both men and women into the roles of the other. It works, but only to a certain extent. Sexism is a real issue, but nobody calls women sexists when they look for men with high social status, which is precisely the equivalent of 8220objectifying8221 women when men look for signs of reproductive health (hotness). This is just feminist politically correct bullshit. January 12, 2010 d00ds who think this doesn8217t prove objectification - you8217re right. It doesn8217t. You8217re still an idiot if you think you should look at womens bodies. Look, I8217ll try to be sensitive and not threaten you by too much staring-type eye contact (my best explanation for why men don8217t respond so well to face-gazing if you8217ve got another, please enlighten me). You keep your eyes on my face. We8217ll all be happy. 8220might this not just as easily demonstrate a difference in self-image and body-comfort between men 038 women, especially when being regarded by the opposite sex8221 Fair question. I will say that consciously, at least, my self-image and body-comfort issues are triggered more by women looking at me than by men. If you don8217t grok that, go to a ballet audition with teenage girls. On the other hand, I8217m somewhat nonheterormative, and that may be a confounder. As an aside - as Crystal mentions, I8217m inclined to think they should have checked specifically in groups of women attracted to women, and men attracted to men. Rebecca B - Can you know, with certainty, that you wouldn8217t have been influenced like the women in this study (at least to some degree) It8217s easy to say it8217s just a matter of overcoming this stuff, but a lot of the time I don8217t think people know they are doing things like this. It8217s a bit like the studies that show the effects of advertising. We all like to think 8220advertising doesn8217t influence me, I8217m smarter than that8221, but, statistically, we8217re wrong (at least some of the time). Which is a good argument in favor of doing more studies like this you probably can overcome this obstacle if you know about it. One caveat that hasn8217t been mentioned - we8217re all assuming talking less is a bad thing. We8217re also all people who comment on blogs, and thus probably think we8217ve got something to say. I, for one, don8217t like the idea of being muzzled. I8217d like to redo this experiment, videotaping the people8217s responses from an angle that didn8217t reveal where the obvious camera was (i. e. use a second, hidden camera that didn8217t show directly where people thought others could see them) and then used that video to show to people and have those viewers rate the people for various traits like 8220likability8221 8220trustworthiness8221 and, importantly, 8220would you hire this person8221. If you could show that women who were aware of the video from the neck down were presenting themselves in a way that was perceived less favorably, THEN you8217d be showing not only that the objectification silences women, but that it MATTERS. Oh well. Future directions for the researchers, I suppose. 8220Isn8217t there a third valid interpretation of the women8217s behavior 8212 that they speak less to men who are ogling them because they don8217t want to encourage the behavior8221 This might depend on whether the subjects were told the other party controlled the camera angle. But since men and women both felt objectified, this interpretation is definitely possible. Of course, it8217s not mutually-exclusive to other interpretations. January 12, 2010 It is interesting that the discussion is about men8217s behavior and attitudes. The study says nothing about that. Don8217t let your stereotypes mislead you. What the study shows is a strong sexist attitude of women concerning people of whom they know nothing but their gender. If the researchers wanted to draw conclusions about the cause of this sexist attitude in terms of women8217s experience with men, they should have, for example, compared similar responses of women living in macho cultures vs. less macho environments. Without this, the study is completely irrelevant in judging men8217s behavior (not that I would want to defend them). January 12, 2010 8220I8217m guessing the response noted in the research was due to problems with body image and value. The problems with body image and value, on the other hand, are due to systematic sexual depersonalization of women in general.8221 I agree, All of the Women I know that do not have a self value and body image problem also tend to 8220enjoy8221 being 8220checked out8221 and talk about it and have fun with it. But the vast majority are body self conscious to the extreme (even obsessed) and any attention to there body at all freaks them out. So it is the society and self image that needs to be fixed not the looking. Another level of equality. if Men can handle it why can8217t Woman a gender weakness no a learned societal weakness. January 12, 2010 I, for one, will NOT be going out of my way to avoid looking at women8217s bodies. As a man I do not ask people to avoid looking at me. If they are so self-conscious they should exercise. If men didn8217t evaluate women8217s bodies the gene pool and quality of children would deteriorate because we would procreate with unhealthy, poorly kept women. If dating is not the issue then it should be of no concern. As a man I will NOT be demonized to accommodate female insecurity. The REAL problem is with men who bash other men for 8220brownie points8221 in their own feeble attempts to be seen in a higher, more noble light8230 all of which is a subconscious attempt to secure their OWN sexual privileges. I would rather the author research the lack of accountability women have for their own psychological state. This sense of entitlement to remain immature is the REAL cause of this phenomenon, not the NATURAL male inclination to observer their entire environment. I dismiss the notion that men are generally fantasizing and staring blankly at women8217s covered breasts andor other body parts. Women habitually glance at a man8217s 8220bulge8221, not to mention his arms, back, and general build. Men have accepted this as a normal primal female instinct and have risen above it without allowing it to hinder our self expression. This can be interpreted as a measure of a type of female inferiority in relation to men. January 12, 2010 The only way that heterosexual Western men can engage in physical beauty is by leering at women. We are not permitted to feel beautiful for beauty8217s sake. It would be considered cruel and dehumanizing to force a woman into a drab uniform her whole life, but this is imposed upon half of our society. January 12, 2010 I write as a woman who has never felt objectified or invaded by a man in any situation. I feel it is up to the woman to learn how to feel confidence within 8211 and to not feel objectified. We can never blame another person for our actions, be it man or woman. 8211 whether the action is to remain silent, or something else. If a woman remains silent because she feels examined or affected by a man8217s glance, then it is up to her to find the strength and confidence within to look past that and express herself as SHE feels fit to. Physical attraction and investigation is done by both genders 8211 and men should not be scrutinized just because they more often have the strength to look past the observer (man or woman) and focus on their own objectives. Women should possess this ability too. Thank you for listening 8211 this is coming from an elderly, well educated and worldly woman who during her life worked in a socialmedical context with diverse people from all walks of life, in many different parts of the world. January 12, 2010 My theory on this would be that this result is seen because women enter into a tense state under male observation. The basis for this would be that prolonged male attention is historically (within the species history) often a sign of intention to rape (or other forced sexual or violent contact that they8217re ill equipped to deal with). That tensionfear is not something that encourages openness and in women it tends more frequently to cause a flight rather than fight response. Put another way, its not that women gazing at women doesn8217t involve any examination as an object, but that that examination as an object has no consequences. Men don8217t care so much if they8217re being seen as an object, either by women or men, because there isn8217t any consequence to being treated as an object for them (or at least, none that isn8217t dealt with by fight rather than flight and that that encourages less openness). Likewise for women on women. One way to test this would be to look for a self assessed measure of desire to please other people or a measure that assesses how important it is that other people engage with you only as a person. If this shows correlations then that would be evidence against the idea I outlined above. As an aside it8217s also got to be the case that when you look at someone else, you don8217t see them as an object 8220instead8221 but rather see them as an object 8220as well8221 (in way, you have a more 8220complete8221 sense of them). Otherwise men would have ceased talking (as there isn8217t anyone listening) when their bodies were under focus, unless they had a bad theory of mind (I don8217t think men are that bad at theory of other minds). I also think the idea that people want to be considered as people rather than objects, although okay as a general rule, is a bit misguided as an overall theory. I8217d guess that people want to be treated as people when it serves their ends and they don8217t when they it doesn8217t. I8217m skeptical being seen as a person is of any inherent value to anyone. If you think that you8217re a really terrible person (which you may be), would you really want the focus to be on you as a person rather than as an object (if you8217re a good quality object), or would you rather play to your strengths and smooth over unflattering comparisons that result from looking at you as a person January 12, 2010 This comment thread is weird. It seems to be mostly men saying it8217s okay to stare at women8217s bodies. 8220Women are self-conscious. Men are not. The flaw is with the women.8221 8220women have been sexual booty for aeons. They know it. And they know they don8217t need to talk to get the guy.8221 8220Women habitually glance at a man8217s 8220bulge8221,8221 (really. eww) I guess these things hold up okay if you8217re talking about men and women at a club, or on the beach, or at a party. But the issue that Ed brought up was, what about when these attitudes are applied to 8221 job interviews, work meetings, networking sessions, classrooms and more.8221 I will only talk about my own experiences. If I am talking to a man about science, and he is staring at my breasts, I can only assume that he isn8217t paying very much attention to what I am saying. I will probably stop talking to him. Not because I am self conscious, or feel that I have closed the deal and we should go jump into bed together. Because I think he is a creep. If said creep might have great insights into the science I was trying to discuss with him, I have just lost out on something professionally, that a man in my position would not have missed out on. I would NEVER stare at a man8217s body during a conversation. Is it really that hard to just not look January 12, 2010 January 12, 2010 It8217d be nice to see some error bars on the graphs, but oh well. One hypothesis for why men tended to dislike the 8220face camera8221 condition is that eye contact between males can be threatening. (A lot of bar fights have started with the phrase, 8220What the fk are you looking at8221) An interesting followup, too, would be to examine the content of the descriptions under the various conditions. Are certain topics played up or avoided January 12, 2010 8220I would NEVER stare at a man8217s body during a conversation. Is it really that hard to just not look8221 No, it isn8217t hard unless the woman is exposing herself. If a man was in your office in a tank-top and speedo I8217m sure you would look. These 8220creeps8221 are a SMALL MINORITY of men, rarely present in professional settings, and hardly worth anyone8217s attention. January 12, 2010 January 12, 2010 That analogy only makes sense if you consider an inappropriate glance to be the same as a physical assault. It perfectly demonstrates the point that someone else8217s behaviour can evoke feelings in another that are perfectly valid, despite the ignorance of that feeling in the offender. I8217ve been gawped at before, and it makes you feel horrible. I have often felt violated and intimidated. I find your explanation of social conditioning considerably less convincing than the explanation offered by the authors. Also you try to critique their definition of objectification as being too vague, but they clearly aren8217t talking about rape, otherwise they would have mentioned rape. They are talking about an attitude. I think they make that pretty clear. January 12, 2010 Prudish, sexually repressed america. In Europe, admiration of well-formed bodies isn8217t seen as something to be ashamed about or to rebel against. Perhaps this explains why European women take so much better care of their appearance and are so much less likely to be fat and badly-dressed. January 12, 2010 I have a theory that mankind8217s defining characteristic is the ability to justify pretty much any bad behaviour with convoluted, ad-hoc arguments. My proof About 90 of the comments on this post. January 12, 2010 Lynne26: 8220If I am talking to a man about science, and he is staring at my breasts, I can only assume that he isn8217t paying very much attention to what I am saying. I will probably stop talking to him. Not because I am self conscious, or feel that I have closed the deal and we should go jump into bed together. Because I think he is a creep. If said creep might have great insights into the science I was trying to discuss with him, I have just lost out on something professionally, that a man in my position would not have missed out on.8221 OMFG This is just so extremely wrong I will grant you that staring at a woman8217s breasts isn8217t exactly good social etiquette (just like for instance picking your nose) and I wouldn8217t blame you for thinking slightly less of him because of it. Your first big mistake is that you make the assumption that he is not listening to you. It may be correct, but it may very well not be. YOU choose to assume this. Next, I presume that the big problem is that you are feeling judged or threatened or something. Your reaction to this is to immediately judge the guy as a creep who has lost all of your respect and is completely rejected by you. And finally, you are blaming him when you make the stupid decision of ending the conversation (stupid because he had valuable insights). He isn8217t forcing you to judgereject him, he isn8217t forcing you to end the conversation. Those are your decisions and they are based your assumptions, stereotypes and intolerance. The right thing to do would have been to simply direct his attention back to you by saying something about this. Just like a man might do when he suspects his conversation partner is not paying attention. Helen51: 8220If someone8217s behaviour is making someone else feel uncomfortable then that behaviour is inappropriate. Their ignorance of the impact of their actions is no excuse.8221 No, no, NO In some cases you might be right, but as a general rule this is extremely wrong. If I want to give my opinion of, let8217s say, ChristianityforeignersMohammedhobo8217s I have every right to do so and I should not have to take into account that some people may or may not be offended by that. 821282128212821282128212821282128212 Anyway, they way I see it the study raises an interesting point: 8220when women are being watched by men (especially from the waist down) they talk less and maybe feel less comfortable8221. I8217m not entirely sure if the 8220talking less8221 is necessarily a bad thing, but the discomfort obviously is. Now, there are a couple of ways that this can be fixed: 1) Men can stop looking at women 2) Women can learn to not let this affect them so much 3) Society needs to cut down on 8220objectifying8221 (whatever that may be) women so much Now, 1 probably seems like the easiest solution (especially to women), but I don8217t think it8217s the best one. First of all, it might not be as easy as it sounds because for a lot of men it is second nature to 8220check out8221 other people (especially women). Second, it still leaves women vulnerable to men who still look (and men could potentially use it as a 8220weapon8221 in situations where it might suit them). A more practical issue might be that it requires effort from the people who are not directly reaping the benefits. So 2 is a better solution, although it might be hard to learn not to let (perceived) 8216ogling8217 affect a woman so much, because the effect is probably largely unconscious (although the same could probably be said for the automatic checking out that most men do). However, learning to overcome this issue would empower women and not leave them at the mercy of men like 1 would. Also, women have a bigger incentive to attempt this. However, I think the study8217s result is primarily about the assumptions that the women make about the guys watching them. Since they cannot see the men watching them, they don8217t know if he really is ogling or staring at them. They just assume that he does. So in this case not ogling the women would not have helped at all, because they would just assume that you did anyway. These assumptions are likely grounded in the objectifying culturesociety, so fixing that may be the best long-term solution. Either that, or people should stop letting their stereotypes guide their actions. I think it8217s interesting to see how every study into differences between the sexes is followed by a discussion of how men are idiotsassholes and women are victims. This study made me think of another one I read some time ago that concluded that men8217s performance on some test would suffer significantly if they first talked to an attractive woman. The reactions here were mainly that men are weak. I can8217t suppress the feeling that had the results of this study pointed out that men were being 8220muzzled8221 by women8217s gazes, the reactions would have been just like that8230 Damn, this post has gotten so long that noone is probably going to read it8230 January 12, 2010 I have to agree with dreg here 8211 the study doesn8217t necessarily say what most people here seem to think it does. No one else was present in the room the nature of the theoretical 8220observer8221 was relayed through a third party. The intent, therefore, of the observer is entire assumed by the person in the room from nothing more than the stated sex of the observer and the angle of the camera. All the behavior exhibited by the participants is therefore based on assumptions of behaviormindset of the theoretical observer. To whit, if women believe they8217re being objectified in this study, it is entirely due to preconceptions: they assume that, when the camera is aimed at their bodies and a man is theoretically on the other end, that he is objectifying them. Women made no such assumption about other women, and men made none at all (if we decide that the dislike at being watched at 8220body level8221 corresponds to an interpretation of objectification). Interestingly, the average talk time for women speaking to men even in the best situation (audio only) was still lower than any other condition of women to women or men to either sex. This study probably tells us more about what society teachs women about men than what men actually do e. g. women are taught that, if he8217s looking at your body, you8217re being objectified. That learned assumption probably does as much to hurt malefemale relations as the behaviors that likely led to its origination in the first place. To make it perhaps clearer: this study shows that women are stereotyping men. The stereotype may be based on legitimate experience or taught, but it8217s a stereotype nonetheless. January 12, 2010 As a lifelong feminist, I8217d love to see more parity in terms of the way women are portrayed in our media, e. g. more focus on the intellectual and professional achievements of women and less on their looks. But it8217s disturbing to me that women are raised to be so sex-negative that they are dumbstruck by moderate displays of sexual interest on the part of men, as the quoted study allegedly suggests. It seems to me that the last thing that will productively change society for the better is to simply paint men as evil because they have sexual appetites (as women do also) and have benefitted from an unconscious double-standard for acceptable behavior that rewards aggression in men and passivityreceptivity in females. It8217s not particularly 8220nice8221 or appropriate for men to smarmily ogle women, but as a women I can8217t help but think that one important half of the solution to this apparent problem would be to empower women sexually rather than painting them as helpless victims of the sexuality of males. I know I learned much better how to handle encounters with oglers when I stopped buying into the Dworkinite, firstwave lie that sex and sexuality are inherently degrading to women8211that women can8217t be sexual subjects and desired by men for their physical traits at the same time. When I finally realized that there was nothing wrong with me expressing my own sexuality, and exploring it as I saw fit, it was almost like magic8211 the predatory losers who used to revel in making me feel uncomfortable stepped off because they knew I wasn8217t some wilting flower unable to handle the idea that someone might fantasize about having sex with me. My self-sufficiency and sexual confidence scares them off, for the most part. January 12, 2010 I fail to see what8217s wrong with objectification, as defined in this post. In most situations, most human beings couldn8217t care less about the 8220complex personalities8221 of the people they interact with. We don8217t care about the cashier8217s complex personality when he or she hands us our change, or about the complex personality of the taxi driver when he or she drives us to our destination. We usually only see them as service providers, and except for a little extra politeness, our thoughts and behavior wouldn8217t change if they were mindless robots. What8217s wrong with that Nothing. So why would there be something wrong with looking at a woman and only caring that she has a nice rack Other behavior that may be vaguely related to 8216objectification8217 might be morally reprehensible, such as not paying attention to what the woman is saying because you8217re staring at her breasts, but in that case, what is bad is the failure of attention, not the objectification itself. January 12, 2010 I get stared at by men pretty much every time I leave the house, and, yes, it does make me uncomfortable. Most men are 8220nice8221. They catch my eye, smile, and say 8216hello8217. However, even these rather bland encounters make me nervous due to the fact that I have had more aggressive sorts follow me, interrogate me, make insanely lewd comments, or actually grab and grope me. And I never know if the next guy who stares at me is going to be one of those guys. So, generally, unless I am in an environment that I feel is safe, I avoid all unnecessary interaction with strange men. I avoid eye contact, speak tersely, and walk fast. This is not the way I want to be, but it8217s apparent that some men will take almost any interaction as encouragement for sexual advances. January 12, 2010 One thing I want to point out: I didn8217t want to have to read this article. The reason why doesn8217t actually specifically pertain to this article, but pertains more to dealing with potential threats of harm. I8217m sick of the fact that part of me wonders if someone will beat me up or kill me because of the things I think if I say them aloud and if they will specifically target me because I am not seen as a physical threat for sexual or racial or other reasons, even though I say them aloud. I dearly hope that it8217s not actually true that I8217d need, say, a gun or something to really feel safe. January 12, 2010 January 12, 2010 Not only did the study not control for essential stuff, like having a large leatherbound gay man stare at a hetero guy, but it ignores years of study of the complexity of sexuality. Now, from a purely 8220walking the streets of New York all alone8221 perspective, I really get how some women are learn to feel a little suspicious of all men, but that8217s really just one environment, and not entirely representative. Finally, consider for just a sec where the excitement in meeting someone new comes from. Just how different is excitement from fear January 13, 2010 I8217m just going to say that yes 8211 despite some of these commenters assertions I8217m a generally confident woman who is unnerved and creeped out by boldfaced unblinking staring in conversation or on the street. It makes you uncomfortable because you don8217t know how quickly you can react if boldfaced leering steps up to creepy commentary or something more dangerous. It makes you uncomfortable if the person leering is a higher up 8211 what will people think, will they try to take advantage of their position, how is this supposed to help me overcome stereotypes of women in my field Gentlemen 8211 you can look and not leer. We do it all the time (or at least I do) To classify this as a 8216dysfunctionshortcoming8217 of females ignores the massive problem of men assuming a right to look and leer as obviously as they please because of the retinue of stupid reasons commenters have attempted to cite. Men have no evolutionary 8216right8217 or true tendency to stare at and 8216size up8217 at womens bodies blatantly during conversation (we all know what the full body scan looksfeels like) 8211 whether that is nurture or 8216nature8217 is undeterminable at this point. But what it is8230is a BAD IDEA and it will make you look like a creeper. No one is telling you not to look like a person with manners 8211 but this does seem to suggest that staring like you can8217t blink straight into somebodys boobs is NOT A GOOD IDEA. My advice to men Eyes on the face 8211 her boobs aren8217t going to tell you whether or not she8217s got murder on her mind and you8217ll learn a lot more watching her expressions than her hips. Also talking helps. Try that. January 13, 2010 Men are responsible for women8217s behavior No. Women should be responsible for women8217s behavior. January 13, 2010 R. Turner - I would like to do you a favor. Since you8217ve figured out that men are sensitive to women to enhance their own reproductive success, and you clearly feel no need to be sensitive to women, I can conclude you do not value your own reproductive success. Since keeping your testicles just gives you one more target for cancer, and you obviously have no reproductive use for them, I would be happy to remove them for you. Although it seems my only instrument is a rusty spork. Oh well, I8217m sure it8217ll be fine. Ray Ingles - What I don8217t quite understand is why men don8217t like eye contact from women. January 13, 2010 Oh please. I8217d like to see all these self-righteous male commentators spend a few days in the shoes of a woman. We get stared at, followed, and groped, which makes us feel objectified and violated. Maybe then you8217d stop with these ridiculous justifications to your creepy behavior. January 13, 2010 We get stared at, followed, and groped, which makes us feel objectified and violated. Maybe then you8217d stop with these ridiculous justifications to your creepy behavior. All the millions of women that spend hours in clothes stores and in front of the mirror to look their best mustn8217t have gotten the memo that the only reason they are doing this is to be objectified, stared at and violated. What a nonsense. And by the way, amazingly sexist to suggest that men might not feel the stare of a woman on them and respond with 8220going quite8221, or feeling uncomfortable being seized up like that. JP Sartre had the effects of a stranger8217s look figured out 50 years ago, and it8217s not exclusive to women. I agree with the poster at 2, this is indeed a false dichotomy between either treating someone as an object or a person. And maybe someone can explain to me the difference, physically and physiologically, between a look that sees someone as a person, and one that sees someone as an object. And if there is no such difference, then this 8220difference8221 becomes a subjective one and one of perception only, and as such would be dependent on a person8217s self-consciousness, body image et cetera, not on their gender. A lot of people here seem to be deducing points from this 8220study8221 based on a preexistent ideological position. January 13, 2010 The women who participated in the study may not even have been aware that they were speaking for less time under the male gaze toward their bodies than in any other situation. If they did know they had spoken less, they might not have even known why. Many commenters assume the women at some point thought 8220I8217m being objectified, I need to be quiet now.8221 I wish we know women8217s perceptions of how long they had spoken, and if they thought there were differences in speaking time in different scenarios, how they would explain that difference. I8217d also enjoy seeing the results this experiment carried out in other cultures and age groups. The comments above make it evident that the limited data available can be interpreted in support of many familiar arguments. January 13, 2010 Since keeping your testicles just gives you one more target for cancer, and you obviously have no reproductive use for them, I would be happy to remove them for you. Although it seems my only instrument is a rusty spork. Oh well, I8217m sure it8217ll be fine. Beeindruckend. Can you imagine if a man made a comment about scooping out a woman8217s uterus with a rusty melon baller Well done, becca, for highlighting how society downplays violence against men and treats it as a subject of humour. January 13, 2010 Hey, a lot of people on this thread seem really emotionally invested in disproving the conclusions of this research. Maybe they could go away and look for papers that support their viewpoint, rather than using their feelings as a source of truthiness. I8217m sure there are some cool studies on eye contact or context-appropriate behaviours that could feed in here. Also, I8217ve heard of anecdotal data, but a lot of you 8220women like being stared atneed better self esteemetc8221 positers aren8217t even using anecdotes. You are just stating how you feel. At least come up with something like: I talked to a women about this once, and she says it doesnt bother her. It8217s not statistically-backed evidence, but at least it8217s evidence. You will note that most anecdata on this thread are from people who undergo this gaze behaviour in a non-experimental context and do not like it. January 13, 2010 The title of the article (is that the study8217s title as well) is actually pretty offensive. 8220Psychological muzzle8221 is pretty powerful wording, and seems to imply that men use this tactic as a means of control. The study itself is based on horribly bad science8230you don8217t begin an experiment like this with a mind to prove something, or your data will eventually bear it up no matter the variables. It8217s plain that this whole thing is part of the rad-fem line of thought that asserts that all men are natural-born abusers and simply can8217t help it. Did the study consider whether or not the subjects who became objects had a perception of themselves as physically attractive 31 of the women in the study didn8217t mind having the camera on their bodies. Why Were any of them ovulating at the time We know from other (better) studies that in phases of fertility women tend to talk less and draw more attention to their physical appearance8230did this have an impact on the results Did the men change their stature Men tend to sitstand with better posture and lower the pitch of their voices when they think they8217re being 8220checked out.8221 Did that happen We don8217t know. All she focused on was how much the participants spoke. The general 8220on the body8221 doesn8217t work either. If someone is looking at my face, it8217s quite different than if they8217re looking me in the eye8230or HOW they8217re doing it. Eye contact can be attentive or threatening. It can be a furtive glance or a leer. I know she was trying to remove these variables by using a camera, but I still think the science is incredibly weak. Notice that the women spoke most when they didn8217t think a man was looking at them at all (first chart). That8217s not mentioned in the article. So what we don8217t know is if the perceived male presence caused them to talk less because they were afraid or because that8217s just how women react biologically (a la Desmond Morris). It8217s just too dangerous a notion that men 8220muzzle8221 women by looking at them. January 13, 2010 becca 8211 In terms of 8220length of description8221, there was no discernible difference - for men 8211 between being looked in the face by men or women. But men tended to dislike the 8216face8217 condition noticeably more than women indeed, more disliked the 8216face8217 than the 8216body8217 condition, a reversal of the female tendency. (Though they didn8217t dislike the 8216face8217 condition nearly as much as women disliked the 8216body8217 condition.) It8217s not clear that men disliked eye-contact from women. If the data on 8220who disliked what8221 were broken down more, it might turn out that men who felt 8220stared in the face8221 by other men dominated the 8220disliked face8221 respondents. Or my hypothesis could be complete bunk. Another question for follow-up studies, I guess. January 13, 2010 Some of the responses to this article are pathologically sexist. Let me sum up8211 Women who feel threatened by leers are ugly They should slap on some makeup and go to the gym more Then, they will gracefully accept ogling and ass-grabbing. Goddamn feminists Look, I am an attractive woman by any standard. And confidence in my own beauty does not make me feel any less threatened by sexually aggressive men. That8217s just not how it works. Since my early teens, there have been men who have gone out of their way to intimidate and humiliate me. Despite the fact that I was always tastefully dressed, strange men would walk up to me on the street and ask if I was a virgin. They would tell me they wanted to f8212 me. Und so weiter. Worse, I have been followed. I have been grabbed. I have had a drunk man try to pull my dress off. I8217ve had men stop their cars and try to convince me to get in. So when some guy I don8217t know starts staring at me, I get nervous. It8217s a conditioned response. And I8217ve learned to that one way to dispel attention is to pretend to be oblivious to it. So when men start staring at my breasts or my legs or even my face, I often feign haziness and pretend I don8217t notice them at all. That8217s because to acknowledge that they were staring at my legs or my breasts is encouraging. And I don8217t need that. I know that there are a proportion of men that are never going to believe that this is my experience. They8217ll say I must look encouraging or that I should be flattered or that I am uncomfortable with my sexuality. But I would hope that men who are not consumed with resentment for women would perhaps realize that any woman with a long history of being followed, groped, and catcalled is going to be wary of any hint of unwanted sexual aggression. January 13, 2010 Hi Steve: Your title and first sentence misquotes the study. The male glance is not the problem. Its the stare. January 13, 2010 Hi, another Steve 85. Firstly, don8217t use feminist as an insult, please. I can vote and get equal pay for equal work because feminism exists. Thirdly, no-one is saying that a) all men are abusers or b) that they can8217t help it. In fact, the latter is something most often said by misogynists in self-justification. to take your criticisms individually: 8216Did the study consider whether or not the subjects who became objects had a perception of themselves as physically attractive8217 8211 Presumably the male cohort would have similar variance in this feature. In regard to the subject reponses measured 8211 The amount that one speaks is more significant in, say, a job interview than one8217s posture. Also, there was a clear difference between male presence alone and male gaze on the body. You are falsely conflating the two. Yes, 8216on the body8217 is fairly crude, but what experimental design could you use to simulate 8216leering8217 or 8216threatening8217 without introducing further confounders through the leerer It is an effective if broad compromise. The article is more along the lines of: This is the effect that an action taken by men affects the way women act in a statistically significant way. Reciprocal effect was not observed. My take on it is: If one as a man would like to not have this negative effect on women, one has the means at one8217s disposal to make eye contact more. January 13, 2010 And if a man was in my office in a speedo, I would probably be more grossed out than anything else. This is why men8217s only access to beauty is through looking at women. We are considered rough tools of production without any redeeming aesthetic quality. January 13, 2010 I too find most of these comments disturbing. They all seem to take the issue to personal levels when it is not personal at all. What I mean is, this is not men8217s fault. This is not women8217s fault. This is the result (note: result not fault) of our society, which stands on the shoulders of thousands of years of cultural and psychological subordination and objectification of women. Including the belittlement of women8217s thoughts, opinions, desires and rights 8211 again, not only by men but by women, too, since it is an institutional problem and we are all part of the institution 8211 and again, not only because of our society, but because of all those that came before us. It permeates our whole society and our lives, but it is most glaringly evident in our media. I am a reasonably attractive woman who has never been attacked, raped, assaulted or molested in any overt way. I used to try to avoid making comments like this for fear of being judged a man-hating feminist 8211 mostly by the men around me 8211 and because I would be confronted with a barrage of what Chris Rowan theorized was 8220mankind8217s defining characteristic is the ability to justify pretty much any bad behaviour with convoluted, ad-hoc arguments.8221 But sexism exists. It is an institution which we are slowly breaking down, but it is not gone yet. Opening our eyes and really seeing it, not pointing fingers at one another, is the first step to breaking it down. January 13, 2010 My biggest problem with the study is that the fixed camera removes perceived intent from the part of the viewer. The subject only knows that their BODY IS ON DISPLAY or NOT. Given that is the simplest division point of the experiment, (As opposed to objectificationoggling or not) it is more reasonable to assume that women are more laconic when their bodies are on display to men. I do appreciate the good control however. I8217d love to have gotten more data-points in post event survey though, such as 8220how attractive female feels they are8221 to see any correlations there. Also sexual preference8230 do gay women react similarly to men as straight women Do they transfer the reaction to other women January 13, 2010 If gaze bothered women more than men, why wouldn8217t women appear in public in drab nondescript clothing, and men wear eye-catching, expressive styles It is very hard to find any true significance to these results besides political propaganda. January 13, 2010 I believe women talk is another way to draw attention. Teenager girls talk louder, I believe, simply to draw attention with the sounds not with the content. (I will second Kathy Orlinsky.) Well there8217s no proof that women categorically dislike being looked at (body or elsewhere) (re: Ed Young). I will argue that they will dislike the looks of a man they don8217t find attractive. This is a mating game whether played at the beach or during a scientific discussion (re: Lynne). Whether a woman likes the man or not talking less is a better strategy: If he does not like the guy, she cuts him off verbally and physically if he likes the guy, I8217d bet she8217ll play a more physical game or have the guy answer some questions. Either way it is less talk. If the man does not get the cue and starts harassing her (beyond the rules of the game) then you can argue the woman is objectified and even victimized. I don8217t think liking was (and can easily be) factored in an experiment8217s setting. January 13, 2010 8220Can you imagine if a man made a comment about scooping out a woman8217s uterus with a rusty melon baller8221 Point taken (although, keep in mind that the analogous structure to the testicles is the ovaries, not the uterus). Still, the visual makes me giggle8230and you don8217t even want to know what I8217d do with a lemon zester However, I am widely-agreed to be one sick puppy. How about I stick with this critique 8216Women are aware of others. Men are not. The flaw is with the men. Kudos to women for being sensitive and mature.8217 Ray - I didn8217t mean men specifically disliked eyecontact from women. But let8217s say men dislike eyecontact from other men out of a psychological echo of dominance concerns. If so, it8217s not clear to me why they also dislike eye contact from women, since male-female interactions aren8217t so pertinent to male social hirearchy. I also wonder about this because it8217s personally relevant to me. I almost never think about eyecontact with women - it just feels natural. However, with men I8217ve been criticized for too much eyecontact. Something else no one has noted - men dislike the audio alone much more than women. Do men simply dislike being recorded more Are they made more uncomfortable by not knowing what the person on the other end looks like 8220We are considered rough tools of production without any redeeming aesthetic quality.8221 Michelangelo8217s David. Men who hear 8220you shouldn8217t ogle women8221 and take this as some kind of attack, like 8220men are all abusers and can8217t help themselves8221 should get psychological assistance. Above and beyond whether you think you should be able to ogle women, you now know that it will have this kind of effect. Ergo, if you want a woman to open up, talk about herself, or possibly give you a second thought in terms of consideration for any chance in hell at mating with her, you should not do this. Being a decent and respectful person is sometimes about treating others based on how they want to be treated, not how you think everyone ought to be. Why is that so complicated for some of the commenters here January 13, 2010 I wonder if the male evo-psychos here know how much they sound like porn-addled rapists looking for a 8216scientific8217 excuse to indulge their rabid misogyny. January 13, 2010 Most of you missed the point of this wonderful study. Women8217s brains notice when a man is checking them out physically and narrows what she says, so as to be less objectionable. It makes perfect sense. Think in the animalistic sense: If he likes my body, why foul it with possibly putting my foot in my mouth Of course, this probably has very limited front lobe interaction, so it8217s just one of those subconscious things. I think most people are drawing FAR too much from it to satisfy their own personal little theories. January 13, 2010 Re: Robin60 I totally disagree with you. (obviously) Staring at a woman8217s breasts while she is speaking to you is nothing like picking your nose. True, it would be MY assumption that he is not listening to me. But come on, give me a break I don8217t feel like looking for them but I am pretty sure there are studies showing that men suck at focusing on more than one thing at once. Are you seriously telling me that a man staring at a woman8217s body is listening to her just as intently as he would be listening to a man I say no way. It also has nothing to do with me feeling judged or threatened. It is disrespectful and insulting not to listen to someone when they are talking to you. (What if someone you were talking to was looking at the ceiling or reading something on the wall behind you What I am talking about is similar, but with the added creepiness of sexual overtones.) So yes, it would be my choice to miss out on his valuable insights (provided he was actually listening enough to even provide any), but I don8217t think I should have to be subjected to insult and disrespect to further my career. I would also like to point out, that I don8217t think this overt example happens very often. A scary possibility you could take away from this paper is that when the 8220stare8221 is more subtle, women may subconsciously talk less. The reason they do this is not the point. The point is that because some men apparently can8217t control themselves (. ), or don8217t even notice that they occasionally glance in an inappropriate way, women may, without even realizing it, be stifling themselves. This is obviously beyond the scope of the paper, I am just saying, I think this could reasonably be true. I think the solution is two-pronged: 1) Guys, seriously, pay attention to where you8217re looking. 2) If women are aware of this tendency to be quiet when looked at, even subtly, maybe we can notice it and try not to do it. (This is different than when a guy is STARING. I still defend my right to turn around and walk away in that case). January 13, 2010 Women8217s brains notice when a man is checking them out physically and narrows what she says, so as to be less objectionable. It makes perfect sense. That only makes sense if one assumes that physical attractiveness is the most important characteristic for women that their speaking is more likely to be a detriment than an advantage, because a woman8217s personality does not have as much value as her body. Which is in fact how society views women by and large, so I guess some women and men feel that way. But saying that it8217s a natural frontal-lobe thing is bunkum. Also, to those who are so disturbed because the study does not address the intent of the male gazers: intent is irrelevant here. Saying that women as a class are oppressed in male-dominated systems is totally different from saying that individual men intend to intimidate or discriminate against individual women. This is some very basic sociology. Many of the commenters here are taking this way too personally8211it sure looks like a defense of the status quo to me. January 13, 2010 Let8217s play the 8220colorization8221 game. You just take the comments from above, and replace 8220women8221 with 8220white people8221 and 8220man8221 with 8220black people.8221 Let8217s have some fun, we can do it now: Quoting: 8220I get stared at by black people pretty much every time I leave the house, and, yes, it does make me uncomfortable. Most black people are 8220nice8221. They catch my eye, smile, and say 8216hello8217. However, even these rather bland encounters make me nervous due to the fact that I have had more aggressive sorts follow me, interrogate me, make insanely lewd comments, or actually grab and grope me. And I never know if the next black person who stares at me is going to be one of those guys. So, generally, unless I am in an environment that I feel is safe, I avoid all unnecessary interaction with strange black people. I avoid eye contact, speak tersely, and walk fast. This is not the way I want to be, but it8217s apparent that some black people will take almost any interaction as encouragement for sexual advances.8221 You can play this game at home or online8230 January 13, 2010 Hmm. it8217s a bit sad. Reading the article, and the comments here, the assumption seems to be that men objectify women. Periode. End. If I, as a man, check out a person I8217m speaking to, how does that deny the possibility of viewing them as a person I8217m not talking about a multiple minute eyes firmly focused on the boobscrotch thing here, just the head-to-toe checkout that most men give pretty much everyone they interact with. FWIW on the men8217s responses I feel extremely uncomfortable when women I don8217t know stare at me for too long, no matter where they look. January 13, 2010 I was going to argue on this post, but then I realized it effectively got everyone else to argue quite well. I guess that was the point of the contentious topic. Best wishes. January 13, 2010 Lynne, you neglect to consider why there may be an element of unconscious resentful defiance in many men who have not consciously realized how the gender disparity marginalizes them. They feel it, but it is never expressed in words, and studiously avoided by feminists. You can read it here, between the lines of these responses, but only if you take a moment and pay attention. January 13, 2010 When men leer at me it gives me the creeps and I consequently want nothing to do with those men. I8217m not sure how this helps propgate the species. January 13, 2010 One thing I hate, as a man, is the accidental look at breasts. I8217m not talking about ogling, but rather when my eyes, seemingly unconciously to me, stop on the breasts for a split second before getting to the eyes. Do you women notice that and does it bother you or is it just when men stare I honestly feel like it8217s instinctual and unconsious, even though I try not to do it. January 13, 2010 8216oh look the douchebag is checking out my boobies8217 8211 no way im telling him where i live January 13, 2010 No Chuck, the dichotomy is not false. Key words: DEPERSONALIZED OBJECT. You can desire a person, or you can desire an object. But you can8217t do both at the same time. You either view women as people, or you don8217t. What kind of sick fuck can8217t desire a person And moreover, where8217s this mystic separation of 8220person8221 and 8220body8221 Personality, intelligence, appearance are all attributes of the whole. Not as many men as you think want to rape you your likelihood of being raped by a stranger or coworker is minuscule. And your appearance really doesn8217t matter, at least as much as ours doesn8217t to you. I8217m thinking of the anti-speedo folks above. Dress work appropriate and you won8217t have a noticeable issue. And hold on when did it become appropriate to jest grotesque physical violence against male genitalia as a retort to views you find displeasurable In fact, when did male abuse become acceptable Is anyone else alarmed by the rising tide of physical violence against male spouses, and the complete lack of discussion of the long-existing emotional abuse January 13, 2010 As Ray Ingles said, it would be really nice to have error bars for these things, particularly since there8217s also an effect (it seems) of having men looking at women8217s faces while they8217re talking. It8217s certainly not as big of an effect as having men look at women8217s bodies, but having an idea of the spread of the data would be useful for gauging whether that8217s a significant decrease or experimental error. January 14, 2010 8220Men are responsible for women8217s behavior No. Women should be responsible for women8217s behavior.8221 Hmmm and where are these over-zealous MALE commenters when the subject of rape comes up i wonder Men are very quick to defend the status-quo whichever way possible lest they be responsible for anything. Staring at boobs is creepy when she is talking to your face. PERIODE. GET IT. GET IT Imagine you were giving a lecture and the womengay men in the audience would be disapprovingly staring at your crotch while you try to make a professional point ( maybe the solution would be for men to do it in a more subtle way) January 14, 2010 Hey Ed, is this how you expected the comments to go Rebecca B, it8217s not about teaching women to be victims, it8217s about teaching the person doing something offensive to stop doing it. I still don8217t know why we tell women to avoid walking alone at night, and not to get drunk in a skirt, when the best way to stop rape is to teach men not to be rapists. After all, we tell kids not to shoplift, we don8217t tell the shopkeepers not to have things in their shop. The point of this study is that there is a negative consequence from something some men do. Why is that so hard to understand January 14, 2010 8220This can be interpreted as a measure of a type of female inferiority in relation to men.8221 R. Turner. Beeindruckend. why are people on here still arguing with this guy You can8217t argue with a person if they truly believe some bull like that. Just leave him be. Hopefully he8217ll creep enough women out to never reproduce. January 14, 2010 8220Not as many men as you think want to rape you8221 - Dan But enough of them do to ruin things for all of the Nice Guys. Until all of you Nice Guys realize that, you will never understand or care why ogling (not briefly glancing) is fucking creepy to many women. Being wary of ogly men is a female self-preservation mechanism, Dan. So with all due respect to your so very helpful rape info, I will stick with erring on the side of caution lest I let down my guard and find myself 8220asking for it.8221 Go ahead, fellas. Leer, stare, and ogle all you want as is your right. But don8217t expect women to be sympathetic when you turn around and cry that it8217s 8220sexist8221 and wrong for women to not like being objectified. January 14, 2010 The most interesting feature of the comments thread has been that the comments for the most part sort of just (ok, utterly) ignore the study itself, and just tackle gender and sex issues phenomenologically. The study doesn8217t seem to be all that well-designed, and the conclusions don8217t follow from the data with any real rigor. I8217m surprised this study was given the play it was. As a personal, political, social, cultural (or whatever) matter, I don8217t disagree with the conclusions. I just don8217t think it was particularly good science. January 15, 2010 I cannot believe some of the comments here. 16 WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP. Men are humans too, and surprise YES THEY ARE SELF CONSCIOUS (otherwise many of them wouldn8217t have to constantly prove their masculinity), the difference is society avoids the topic of male self-conciousness because it8217s seen as a 8220femme8221 thing as you have portrayed, when in reality it8217s a HUMAN trait. 18 The reason why women look for men with high social status is simple, they8217ve been told their whole lives that they are a zero who need to find that ultimate protector to provide everything for them. They8217re just displaying the horrid flaws of the patriarchal system, the system you8217ve installed And yes women can be sexist against men, but it is absolutely IGNORANT to think it8217s even close to the same level of sexism that goes against women. Male privilege is still alive and healthy. I cannot believe how threatened some of you are of the gender you supposedly love, being equal to you. I never want to know how it feels to be that weak and selfish. January 15, 2010 Is it possible to explain this result as being consistent with the idea that men need to talk more to impress women and women need to talk less It8217s certainly a 8220accepted truth8221 among some people, and the data does fit (though men only talked marginally more). January 15, 2010 Interesting study, and guaranteed contentious comments thread. Definitely interesting running through almost all of it, although by a certain point I was skimming a few of the commenters, since they8217d already made their argument a couple of times. Someone up there commented that men don8217t like eye contact from women. That strikes me as somewhat incorrect. Constant eye contact during conversation, however, is definitely uncomfortable. Anyway, this is an extremely profitable potential field of research, but I would like a much better control for direction of gaze. For example, mimed videoconferencing, which could be fairly well done by this point, with flexible video editing for carefully targeted eye movements. That will give you vastly more relevant results, although I do appreciate the simplicity of this study8217s design. January 15, 2010 I8217m missing something here. It8217s interesting but it really doesn8217t demonstrate a harm. It isn8217t even objectificiation. I assume the men don8217t see the women as objects but as potential mates. That8217s a very human thing. January 15, 2010 I never want to know how it feels to be that weak and selfish. January 15, 2010 8220When men leer at me it gives me the creeps and I consequently want nothing to do with those men. I8217m not sure how this helps propogate the species.8221 That is a valid refutation to all the evo-psyche baloney. When so many women have clearly stated that the ogling creates a hostile environment for them, then men need to actually accept that. Instead, some men insist that they alone know how all women feel, and for some magic reason only their version of how all women feel must be used as the social narrative. Hello, that is some serious entitlement there, jerkwad. Check it at the door because it doesn8217t belong here anymore. Thank you Ed Long for writing about this, it8217s a great contribution. The more people talk about these issues the more our society can grow in understanding. I truly appreciate and thank all the wonderful men who responded here, and ask YOU to take a good hard look at the comments spewed by the jerks. That8217s what they8217re willing to say in public, anonymously. What do YOU think they would do in a private 8220he saidshe said8221 situation I8217m not 8220afraid of my sexuality8221. I feel 8220empowered8221. I 8220feel confident8221. And yet none of those things would prevent men who would dehumanize me, from dehumanizing me, no matter how ultra fabulous I feel. Because it8217s not about me at all, it8217s about special snowflake men who feel entitled to women8217s time and attention. And any woman who sits here and whines about how empowerful she is, needs a frickin8217 clue. It8217s not about you, honey bun. It8217s about some asshole who decides he has the right to do whatever he wants to you. The vast majority of rapists, or, men who would deny a promotion based on nothing more than gender justifications, look exactly like NORMAL men. They do not have horns and a tail. Which means women can8217t distinguish between the nice guys and the jerks until after the jerks have done something disgusting. But there8217s clues. Rapists ogle, nice guys don8217t ogle. Usually. Rapists disrepect the need for safety, nice guys respect the need for safety. Usually. Unfortunately, the predators are getting really good at repeating the magic phrases and initial behavior which women have always relied upon for distinguishing the nice guys from the jerks. These predators are now describing rape victims as the perpetrator8217s 8220partner8221 and equating 8220not getting their way8221 as 8220domestic abuse8221. They are disguising themselves as genuinely nice guys, but smart folks should know by now that predators always use whatever camouflage is in season. Ed Yong, I love you January 16, 2010 I8217m not going to comment on the study itself, because many people have already made comments for and against it, and they8217re far more well stated than anything I could ever come up with. However, I would like to address some of the comments. This is my first time posting here, so I don8217t mean to offend anyone, and I hope this isn8217t too off-topic. If it is, give me a warning, moderators, and I8217ll gladly switch back to the study only. I do think about the issue of 8220objectification8221 a lot, being a 24 year old guy who8217s obviously interested in girls. I do wonder about the various responses, and why women don8217t want men to think they8217re sexually attractive (except when they8217re 8216allowed8217 to). The stranger thing is obvious, because it8217s just common sense, so I8217m more concerned with one-on-one situations and what women find demeaning in that scenario (if it8217s someone they8217re close to). I know I8217m determined not to find women sexually attractive sometimes, because I don8217t want to offend them. And even when I only find them sexually attractive momentarily, I feel like perhaps I8217m a worthless shell of a person for only looking at a person8217s physical appearance, even though that person means nothing to me and I will never encounter them again. One of the reasons I don8217t date 8211 I would do fine with the companionship aspect and being a friend part, but when it came to the actual intimacy, I don8217t think I8217d be able to perform up to the 8216standards8217 women expect. Women demand someone who can find them sexually attractive, even if it8217s only for those rare few minutes, and I8217m not sure how well I would do that, switching off the sexual aspect of myself that views women as appealing for most of the day, and then being expected to switch it on full blaze for those several moments, only to switch it off again after it8217s done. Don8217t get me wrong, I find it rather easy to keep quiet and treat everyone professionally during the day it8217s not a challenge at all, even when I8217m on a train and don8217t have to talk to anyone. I just wonder how boring it would be for for me to have a girlfriend and for her not to get a sexual response from me, because I8217d think I8217m 8216objectifying8217 her by viewing certain parts of her with more attention than the others. I know someone8217s going to point it out, but I8217m not gay either, or an asexual. It8217s kind of like the VirginWhore dichotomy, except I don8217t oppose women exploring their sexuality. I just think it8217s easier for me not to show women any signs that I find them sexually attractive, and thus avoid any unpleasant misunderstandings. So, I do wonder what would happen if suddenly guys NEVER found women sexually attractive, and whether that would solve everything about this issue. ON THE OTHER HAND, it is a reality that women don8217t like being leered at, and it is wrong to objectify someone in an inappropriate setting. There8217s a time and place for that, and it8217s not the workplace. Hell, it8217s not even the outside world I don8217t spend time leering at women I don8217t know, salivating over their breasts and acting like that wolf in the old Hanna Barbera Droopy cartoons, and I sure look them in the eyes when I talk to them (unless I8217m staring down at the computer, to actually reference the information). I think if you8217re going to objectify someone, the only place to do it is in your bedroom, or in the privacy of your own home. After all, I think it8217s hard not to objectify someone when you have your head buried in their breasts, or if it8217s a girl, if she8217s giving attention to her boyfriend8217s anatomy in any form. We8217re only human, after all. I may think certain things and I may glance briefly for a moment, but that8217s it. I don8217t leer at women, I generally go back to what I was doing, and I generally try not to find them attractive human beings, merely other individuals I don8217t want any interaction with. I know full well they8217re not interested in me leering at them, and to be honest, I wouldn8217t want them leering at me either. Not that I8217m much to look at. This article also deals with 8216strange8217 people leering at you. Like I said, I would be confused as to how to deal with a girlfriend, but the daily part of not staring at women is easy there8217s really no challenge to it if you keep your mind focused on just directing your attention anywhere that8217s not her. 8220Intimate partners should be chosen for their aptitude to be mate and co-parent.8221 Actually, that8217s a horrible criteria for judging a potential partner, if you don8217t want kids. A better standard is judging people for how well they will do as a COMPANION, not as a 8216mate8217. 8216Co-parent8217 implies you8217re going to have kids, and not everyone wants that 8216traditional8217 vision of a family in their lives. Some people just want to be happy with someone they share companionship with and love for the rest of their life. However, you have to remember how important sexual attraction is. If you 8220mate8221 with a person you8217re not physically attracted to, you8217re not going to have a wonderful relationship, you8217re going to have a nightmare of a situation that8217s going to affect everyone negatively. women do want someone who finds them sexually attractive, because NOBODY wants to be with a person who finds them hideous. Just look at all the reports online of husbands who no longer find their wives sexually attractive, while the wives are begging to have an intimate relationship again. If you8217re not attracted to the person, you8217re not going to be able to do anything with them, unless you8217re really, really drunk, or just an asshole rapist. 8220I wonder if the male evo-psychos here know how much they sound like porn-addled rapists looking for a 8216scientific8217 excuse to indulge their rabid misogyny.8221 Actually, from what I8217ve read, it8217s the guys who don8217t watch porn that have the most twisted views on women. They have no outlet for the sexual desires and don8217t have adequate social skills to develop healthy bonds with women, so they devolve into psychologically disturbed beasts who do abuse women and don8217t have a normal view of sexuality. The extreme porn may supplement that, but usually the disturbed mindset comes first 8211 sometimes from religion, other times from pure shyness that develops into neurosis, and other times from abusive parents that lead the kid to fall deep into a repeating pattern of abuse. But porn is not the cause. Porn is the symptom, and it is only a symptom when the person is psychologically incapable of functioning as a human being when they8217re not watching it. If you only watch porn for 15 minutes, get off quickly to that, and then forget about it for the rest of the day, I don8217t think it8217s going to affect you much. You8217d be hard pressed to find a young, virile straight guy who hasn8217t watched porn sometime in his life. 8220I cannot believe how threatened some of you are of the gender you supposedly love, being equal to you.8221 Actually, some men don8217t claim to love women, at all. Although I know that8217s obvious, just look at the Men8217s Rights movement that contains some nice men and LOADS of others are complete douches who despise women and the subject of equality. Some men raise genuine concerns about child custody and court fairness, and economical concerns (for both sexes), but then certain men come and they hijack the organizations with ideas of oppressing women and returning to the 19508217s 8220Leave it to Beaver8221 style of relationships. And other men let them because, of course, they don8217t want to 8216go up against the boys8217. Some even claim that women have NEVER loved men, simply because they8217re bitter over an ex or a lost custody battle. They let one experience destroy them and descend into a place where they hate all women for what one psychologically unbalanced women did. ON THE OTHER HAND, they still find the female gender hot and want sexbots to mimic the outer facade of women (which only plays into the 8216objectification8217 claim of women that is driving studies like this). So they still find women sexually attractive, but they just want a body to fk, with an empty personality and mindset. Those guys definitely don8217t love women, and you8217d be wrong to assume they do. It8217s not even about just relieving stress and then going about your business (which would be respectable, since some people are too caught up in business to ever have a successful relationship), it8217s just that they want a shell of a woman to fk without having to worry about any potential problems. Not every guy is a misguided gazer, some guys really are misogynistic about women as some women are hateful about men. For the sake of the discussion know, I know you8217re referring to regular guys. I think part of the issue is the difference in the way women and men see beauty. Women say you can find something beautiful without it being sexually exciting, but for guys, it8217s a lot more difficult when it comes to people. We can acknowledge art in an intellectual way, we can critique detailed graphics in games and natural wonders without adulteration, but it8217s a lot more difficult to find a woman beautiful unless you also find her sexually attractive (unless it8217s our daughters, because of the genetic factor involved and sociological repercussions). That may seem shallow, but remember that guys operate on a much more 8216primitive8217, instinctual level of sexuality, with women being more refined in a sexual sense and having deeper layers of meaning to them. That doesn8217t mean that women aren8217t capable of lust, but that guys are much more prone to it than girls. And there8217s yet another issue to think about. Notice the women here who say they are proud of their attractiveness, they just don8217t want to be ogled. Women like to think of themselves as sex, but they8217re not doing this for the benefit of the men. What I8217ve learned is that women are mainly doing this for themselves, and any guys who stare at them and are rightfully amazed are misguiding themselves into thinking it8217s for them. Sexiness is something that comes from the inside, and so you can find yourself sexy without having to have it be verified by anyone else, woman or man. Men don8217t understand that, and they think that women are dressing sexily because they want attention from them. Because men perceive almost anything a woman wears as sexy (short of the most hideous or boring clothing), that causes yet another problem. Overall, the problems seems to come from the philosophical differences between men and women, and the misunderstandings that results it. Take note however, that8217s only my opinion. January 16, 2010 Oh, I forgot to mention that I8217m uncomfortable with the term psychological muzzle being used in the article title. I don8217t think a leering gaze should stop anyone from voicing their mind, nor do I want it to. I fully expect any woman who8217s being leered at by some man who won8217t stop to slap him, or at least bring it up in an open way, and seek help from management andor bystanders to aid her in disciplining the asshole. Other men should bring it up as well, of course. Both sexes should do their best to ensure that there8217s a fair environment at workplaces, and that people aren8217t unnecessarily uncomfortable in public. I know we have to think about our jobs and so forth, but if we let things like these go, we8217re never going to improve anything Someone has to speak up about this, and men should definitely speak up more for women if the women are too intimidated to do it themselves. It8217s only common courtesy. The whole 8220psychological muzzle8221 term brings to mind torture chambers where people are muzzled like dogs, and men in leather are abusing them with whips or something. The worst of oppressive regimes, in other words, not an office environment or a public setting like a train car, where most of the persistent sexism takes place. I know it8217s made for effect, but I have to wonder if the writer of the article went too far, and he could have found a better way to phrase what he read about the findings of the study. January 19, 2010 If someone is looking at me below the neck as I8217m talking to them (I8217m female BTW), I assume that they aren8217t really interested in what I8217m saying. If they were, they8217d be looking at my face, particularly at my eyes and mouth. So I8217m not going to waste my time thinking of things to say, and therefore won8217t say much. Since men don8217t show much of a difference regardless of where the observer is looking, perhaps this study shows that, in general, women pay more attention to their audience than men. January 19, 2010 Unfortunately, the comments on this thread seem to strongly support the idea that a significant proportion of men are self-absorbed assholes. On the one hand, this is a shame: this was a really interesting and well-written article about an intriguing study that mirrors my real-world experience (I stop talking when men are checking me out because it implies they are not listening, and that they are creeps whom I should avoid). On the other hand, I guess it helps to know what I8217m up against 8212 a number of hostile people who really don8217t give a shit about what I think or feel. January 21, 2010 I actually feel REALLY uncomfortable when I can tell women are looking at me as an object as well (and it doesn8217t have to be a lesbian either). Also 8211 when other women tell me I should wear make-up or dress differently 8211 I feel silenced too. I never get into the reasons I avoid beauty products altogether. Mostly because I get the hunch that they really don8217t care about my opinion, otherwise they would have minded their own business. Which might be similar to why women feel silenced when they are being ogled at by men. It8217s almost like you can sense that the men don8217t care if you have an opinion 8211 like not liking to be stared at. I didn8217t bring this up because I wanted to blame women for this, someone mentioned that women don8217t get uncomfortable when women stare but I think that is a false assumption. It just happens to be that men tend to be more intrusive, more often. And A LOT of guys I8217ve dated had ogling problems. I think women are more likely to look but do it discretely because we know how being put on the spotlight like that can feel a bit like a human auction. An example like this happened to me the other night. I was walking my dog on campus and this guy musta been waiting for a ride or something, he was staring at me. I felt really uncomfortable. I guess for me, it almost feels like I8217m being video taped or something. I think if a man is uncomfortable with something like that 8211 he8217s more likely to speak up because men are socialized to be more extraverted (not saying all men). All I know is that my dog even got annoyed with that guy8217s staring and actually started to growl at him (which I thought was totally precious). January 24, 2010 R Turner wrote: 8220Women are self-conscious. Men are not. The flaw is with the women. Kudos to men for being confident and mature.8221 The problem with this theory is that is assumes that the entirity of women being objectified is a passive look when the reality is that objectifying looks are too often followed by sexual harassment or worse. Men who sexually harass or sexually assault women may use women8217s non-sexual talk as evidence that the harassment or the sexual contact is wanted. The impact of these experiences can impact how women feel and how they react even when they are in a controlled environment. January 25, 2010 January 29, 2010 fist off, thanks patrick. i really hope you believe this, and whomever you8217re with is a lucky woman. the whole 8220it8217s natural and normal and therefore my god8217s given right8221 argument is tired. Lots of men use it to justify just about any behaviour, sadly though, women dont get to use the same argument that often: it8217s also also natural and normal for women to have leg and armpit hair, yet they are required to shave lest men shame them for not doing so. It8217s natural and normal for women to fart and burp, yet they are required not to in public. it8217s natural and normal for a man to desire sex with any woman he sees on the street, yet jumping on her would be an assault. it8217s also ABSOLUTELY natural and normal for a woman to feel threatened by a sexual gaze, comment and grab atwith innapropriate timeplaceperson. it8217s just how women are because there are biological reasons behind it. It8217s threatening. deal with it. February 6, 2010 To RTurner: What the study is measuring is not the effects of 8220objectification8221 so much as the effects of different socialization. 8220Kudos to men8221 doesn8217t apply when We the Male Gender are as deeply implicated in the socialization of women (from the way daughters are raised to the whole social field that women confront on a day-to-day basis) as we are. The fact remains that women on the whole face a much different set of risks from the opposite sex on a daily basis than men do it8217s women who constitute eight - or nine-tenths of the victims of rape and sexual assault, not men. Of course, therefore, they have different reactions, since they8217d be stupid not to. Take the subtle 8220shrinking8221 response demonstrated in the study, for example. Socially speaking, it8217s a very practical response, probably not unlike what most women would have to men sexually sizing them up in a normal conversation. It8217s practical because of the likelihood that a man crass enough to be that obvious about things will respond better to a more demure conversational partner. (Not to mention his getting defensive if directly confronted by the obvious, as demonstrated by this thread.) New comments have been temporarily disabled. Please check back soon.