Change at Trader Joe's Sends Local Man into Meltdown
Published January 2026 0 Comments | Share:
Jason Wedgewood spent 20 minutes complaining after walking into a local Trader Joe's and seeing that this favorite chips had been moved to a different isle.
LAS VEGAS, NV – A recent organizational change to a Trader Joe’s grocery store caused local man Jason Wedgewood to stand just inside the store’s front doors and complain, loudly, for 20 minutes.
“I was working the register closest to the door and (Wedgewood) comes in a says something like ‘oh what the hell is this now?’ and then he just starts complaining about how we moved some of the stuff around after the holidays,” said Trader Joe’s employee, Gabriela Cremle. “But… after a couple minutes he started to complain about a bunch of other stuff that doesn’t have anything to do with (Trader Joe’s). And for a couple of those minutes he was just crying. I think… I think moving the chips to the other side of the store kinda broke him.”
After alternating between loudly complaining about the store’s reorganization, the general quality of life, and the controls on his new car, Wedgewood was pulled away from the store by his wife.
“I just think that poor Jason had a long week and seeing that his favorite chips were not where they have been for the last few years… it was just the last straw and he had himself a little bit of a meltdown I think,” said Jason Wedgewood’s wife, Jen Wedgewood. “Luckily I was able to get a couple of things before I had to get Jason out of there. Have you had those peanut butter filled pretzels they have there at Trader Joe’s? Oh my gosh! Aren’t they just the best damn things? And don’t even get me started on the Cornbread Crisps. I swear to god, if I could survive on just those things I would!”
While Jason Wedgewood was complaining, few of the other Trader Joe’s customers seemed bothered by Wedgewood’s actions.
“I get it man,” said Trader Joe’s customer, Brant Dalford. “I went to Best Buy the other day and I just stood in front of the wall of phone chargers and I just… stood there staring at them for 15 minutes. Eventually some kid that works there came up and asked if I needed any help and I said ‘yes… but not with these’ and the kid just looked at me and said ‘cool’ then walked off looking at his phone. I didn’t have a breakdown like the guy at Trader Joe’s but I definitely get it, you know.”
Jason Wedgewood said that his reaction to the reorganization of the Trader Joe’s was justified and that stores should alert customers to planned changes.
“Look, if you have the chips in the second isle, right when you come in the door, for five years you can’t just go and change that on a guy,” said Wedgewood. “You have to give people notice. You can’t just change things. You can’t just tell people in a meeting that we have to use Slack now and I don’t know what Slack is and the buttons on my car aren’t even buttons anymore and I can’t figure out how to turn the air on so that it’s going to both the defrost and to the feet and the chips should just be there when you walk in so you see them and you know that at least one thing, one god damn thing in this world is the same and… you can’t just… move things around! You can’t just change everything all the god damned time! I… I’m gonna go take a nap.”
Despite the frustrations that the move has caused Wedgewood, the Trader Joe’s has no intention of moving the chips back to the location by the door.
“(Trader Joe’s) has so many amazing products that we feel we need to highlight different things in our entrance,” said Trader Joe’s manager, Lincoln Zambadi. “Like these Artisanal Lutefisk Crackers. Or these Peanut Butter filled pasta noodles. People need to buy these things so that I don’t have to fucking look at them anymore!”
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