Comments on: Warming up to Trader Joe’s

By: Chef Nanci

Chef Nanci — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:41:52 +0000

Hello! Glad to see my class brought you back into a Trader Joe’s! FYI – I do not work for Trader Joe’s nor am I paid to do any product endorsements! I just really like the products the stores have to offer – and as you found, the prices are great! Keep up the good work:)

By: Sadie

Sadie — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:16:58 +0000

Oh yeah, I forgot: their Irish Breakfast tea is also surprisingly good. My little brother gave me a sack of unmarked tea bags once and I liked them so much that I asked him what brand they were, and sure enough, you get 'em at Trader Joe's, eighty bags to a box for some ridiculously low price.

I also hear great, great things about the way they treat their employees. I of course have done no research on this so I don't know how much of it is true, nor do I have any idea how they're able to sell such seemingly high quality products for such low prices and what may or may not have been compromised for that, but man...I love Trader Joe's.

By: zhux@livejournal

zhux@livejournal — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:46:17 +0000

Their nuts, sprouted bread, dried fruits, frozen fish and sauces are frequent items we pick up. I definitely like TJ’s because they carry more quality items for lower prices. Plus, they stock a lot of gluten-free stuff and organic items.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:10:19 +0000

I love the dried fruit, notably the mangoes and cherries.

We're just finishing up our last batch of mangoes, which we soaked in a jar of vodka. The mangoes aren't so sweet/fantastic anymore, but the resulting vodka was phenomenal.

And I could live on dried cherries given half a chance.

By: y

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:14:35 +0000

No, they were not ideally situated in the neighborhood I was in when I first got to DC, since the only other grocery option was the Safeway in the Watergate (aka “Soviet Safeway,” i.e. the shelves are always empty and you wait in long lines to checkout), so I went looking for Everything, and came out with about one-fifth of it. What store sells a tiny (well..tiny for my consumption) bag of already cooked brown rice and no actual raw brown rice?! Booo. I’d probably only go for their wine and tea.

By: Sadie

Sadie — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:12:31 +0000

The “Pound-Plus” bars of Belgian chocolate! OMG! We try to keep one of those in our glove compartment at all times. It’s delicious, it’s a pound plus, and it’s only like three dollars and something!