First documented in the late-1960s and becoming widespread by the mid-1990s, Trader Joe’s (T.J.s) Socialism is best known for a strong emotional association with it’s population and a fairly egalitarian-seeming social structure that masks an opaque executive and decision-making central body.
Competition is ruthlessly suppressed through the domination of state manufactured goods with a small percentage of additional products from outside sources. By and large, any independent identity is suppressed in producers allowing the State to monopolize any positive associations with the population and making those associations resistant to transfer elsewhere.
Due to the efficiency and creativity of the central body, the State enjoys a high degree of approval and loyalty from the population.
It is difficult to say whether T.J.s Socialism could flourish as well without more traditional market-based economies to trade with and ease potential demand shortfalls when central manufacturing fails to satisfy population expectations.