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Do individual stores have any autonomy over their pricing?

• sharkweek 3y ago
  Didn't work at Trader Joes, but at another grocery chain for a while as a store buyer. I had essentially no control over pricing unless we had a bunch of backstock we had to move quick to avoid expiration. In those cases we had some level of store-level autonomy to "price to move." That being said, it was heavily tracked and if anyone was doing it too much I'm sure there would be consequences of some sort. Besides that, we'd get updates from corporate with a list of new price tags we'd print out any time they changed something (100% with regional fluctuation baked in, but not at a store level).
• hmcq6 3y ago
  Trader Joe's doesn't franchise. I'm not entirely sure what that means for store autonomy but I know it means less.