![]() ![]() She ultimately found a wine at the store, settling on a $10 bottle of Montepulciano. “I was looking for Chianti’s over there, cause there’s a good $5.99 one I like at Trader Joe’s … I was looking over there and I see nothing under $30,” she said. “So right now we’re basically taking advantage and sending all the customers to our store right now,” Taylor said.īack at the Union Square Wine and Liquor store, Villeco found herself browsing the shelves for a quality, affordable wine like the ones she bought at Trader Joe’s. Meanwhile, Kasim Taylor, a stock manager at Union Square Wines and Liquor, stood outside shepherding disappointed customers to the wine store around the corner, handing out fliers that read, “Flash sale, 10% off on all regularly priced still wines.” The closure of the wine shop is a decision Trader Joe's made independently and internally,” NYU spokesperson John Beckman told Gothamist. "There's been no change in NYU's lease with Trader Joe's, and it has several more years to run. “Maybe the rent was too much.”īut the lease hadn’t changed, according to a spokesperson for NYU, which owns the building. “Why didn’t they find a new location before they shut it down? I guess they got forced to shut down,” Count-Sebastian Cherry, a Brooklynite who visits the store when he’s in the area, said. Some outside the store speculated on what might have happened for the store to shut down so abruptly. I’m curious to know what was going on behind the scenes.” “I came here probably last week and I didn’t know anything about it. “It says they’re exploring another location, but who knows when that’ll be,” she said. ![]() Olivia Villeco, another patron, was headed to the store to pick up wine after work when she realized the shop was closed. “I used to come here and buy a lot of wines, like 20 bottles, and drink them for several months. He had commuted 30 minutes from Hell’s Kitchen only to find out the store was shut down. “I am so bummed,” Arthur Souza, another customer, said. it can't have been because business was bad.” “I’m pissed, I don't understand how it could just be gone, this is so random. “So they're just moving locations? I'm so confused right now, what's going on?” she asked the others gathered around the notice. Outside the front doors on Thursday, confused customers like Jaquana Cornelius, stopped in their tracks when they saw the covered windows and wondered what happened. Trader Joe’s Wine Shop was known for its wide selection of cheap wines and had a loyal customer base. ![]()
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