Bag-gate
Did you hear that Trader Joe’s opened a store in the Memphis area last week? (Pause for laughter.)
The personalized store bags (oh, yes, TJ’s has personalized bags) were stamped “Nashville” instead of “Germantown,” where the new store is located.
The general consensus online seemed to be that outfitting a Memphis-area store with Music City bags was mildly outrageous in all the usual ways.
It was later (weirdly) explained that it takes years for stores to get personalized bags, as — and we’re just guessing here — they’re individually woven by a small colony of highly endangered bagworms and printed with colorful unicorn milk.
Or, maybe it’s no error at all. With the opening of a long-awaited Trader Joe’s, Germantown can remain in Shelby County while still officially describing itself as Westest Nashville.
Oh, Gannett
It’s hard to even muster a “dammit.”
Every week I say I’m not going to write about The Commercial Appeal. Every week they do something like putting a hiker on the cover of their Memphis Most issue, breathing the rarefied air atop what appears to be a rocky outcrop.
Ah, the wintery, stock-photo slopes of Mt. Moriah!
Memphis Most’s best printing disaster has to be this delicious-looking picture of barbecue.
