Carrie Battan

The New Yorker

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Staff writer for The New Yorker, contributor to GQ.

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In his memoir, “Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys,” Joe Coulombe dives deep into the out-of-the-box business strategies that still to this day…

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