I've only been to one of these and before I walked inside I saw some kid grabbing a watermelon from the box of them by the door and just trying to bounce it on the rest of them like a basketball
>Pacific Island theme >Cheap(ish) staples and premade food
I remember reading that Trader Joes target areas with people that are overeducated and underpaid. That's pretty much their gimmick: target single people or DINKs at the beginning of their careers that feel like they don't have enough time to cook elaborate meals but still want food that's trendy and varied.
>what's the gimmick
lots of single people frozen meals, generally good prices on everything but their ready to eat fresh prepared food packs. Expect the chicken salad tub to be like $7, but th Their produce is high as well.
>I remember reading that Trader Joes target areas with people that are overeducated and underpaid.
it's very high per capita income areas, actually. Think Naples, FL or Pinecrest FL or northern Virginia tech corrider. Because of lots of social media buzz, they'll also be in private university areas as well, places parents are footing the bill for the apartments since student housing is as unaffordable to students without mom and dad also buying a condo for 4 years instead. Underpaid? no. Intern in a courthouse or law firm, maybe. Most areas you see a TJs are places people would dine out nightly, and far more often than make a damn thing at home. Their wines, nuts snacks, crackers are just pantry items to hold until the next time you have to eat in.
this store caters to single young urban professionals.
products and produce packaged/sold in smaller quantities, and priced individually, at a markup.
high quality convenience items, easy to cook/frozen.
"natural/organic" and unique variety food items, at least they give off the brand image.
store branding using this natural/organic brand image, to justify marked up price.
loss leaders (wine) amongst marked up premium items (cheese, cereal).
Good produce, nice specific goods (like their cheese and nuts sections). Some working professionals without much time like their fresh ready-to-eat or frozen meals. I hear their coffee is alright too, though I haven't had it. It's just a generally upper-quality chain, but not absolutely autistic and megapriced like Whole Foods.
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>Pacific Island theme >Cheap(ish) staples and premade food
I remember reading that Trader Joes target areas with people that are overeducated and underpaid. That's pretty much their gimmick: target single people or DINKs at the beginning of their careers that feel like they don't have enough time to cook elaborate meals but still want food that's trendy and varied.
i like their red and yellow curry sauces. they have really nice staples for someone who likes to cook but doesnt have a lot of time energy or space, including:
-bags of frozen chicken breast
-bagged salads
-stir fry vegetables or pre-shucked corn that can go in the microwave
-frozen salmon bags
-cheap eggs, butter, milk
-skyr
-good spice mixes (the elote is really bomb on roast veggies)
and thats just the stuff i buy, though as a former fatty it's hard to pass by all the aisles of cookies, chocolate, sweets, snacks, chips etc. there is an overabundance of easy high calorie snack food which is a nightmare for me. plus you have to check the frozen food cause it can be marked as 500 calories but then the service size is 1/4 a "bowl" or whatever. the frozen tikka masala and butter chicken are really good though. the frozen naan and fry breads are calorie sinks too.
t. college educated but paid barely above minimum wage
They have really good frozen stuff. Cheap booze too
Yeah I mostly go there to get the curry sauce or frozen stuff once in a while. They have much better frozen stuff than most grocery stores, and in general aren't that expensive. Mixed luck on produce and meat, I usually go other places for those.
i work at trader joes
my shift is in 15 minutes i can provide a pic with timestamp
https://i.imgur.com/H7tRRCk.jpg
apologies for the late delivery, gentlemen. wageslaving for trader israelite is time-consuming.
How is working there? I worked at other grocery stores but they always seemed to pay better although the weird register setup seems annoying as frick
NTA but I also work there. If you're going to work retail, get a job there. It's easy as frick. People stay there forever because of how secure it is, the pay is good for the amount of responsibility you have, in my state the wage capped at $25/hr. There's a schedule/log at the front desk. everyone's shift is divided into one hour blocks, and it typically alternates being on the register or working stock. Only problem is you're expected to be an outgoing employee for customers so if you have the 'tism it's not gonna work.
There is shockingly little “organic” food there if you look. Most of it is just normal produce(that spoils faster than what you get at any other supermarket) and junk food with fancy packaging.
This place is my wife's second home. Our freezer and pantry is packed full of trader whoever's easy meals for the days I don't cook.
I will say that the prices are pretty good, I've seen what she brings home in comparison to my grocery hauls at a 1/3-1/4 the price. They only have a few good items and they're mainly snacks, and I dont really snack.
In these threads it's always pretty obvious who has shopped at TJ's and who hasn't.
Yes, Trader Joe's has low prices because it's owned by the same company as ALDI. They use the same business tactics as ALDI, but have a nicer façade so yuppies like it more.
If you have an ALDI near you, there's not much point in shopping at trader joe's.
Aldi is two different businesses, in Europe. They are brothers, as I recall. Instead of competing head to head in markets, they've agreed to avoid each other. The US Aldi is not the same Aldi that bought Trader Joes.
The businesses do have a lot in common, though. They push their own brands, limit floor space by limiting inventory, focus on high traffic stores.
US Aldi specializes in lower cost, TJ's specializes in appealing to shoppers that want trendy items and the ambiance. In both cases, some of their in-house brands are good, and some are really meh. Regular shoppers at each tend to look for specific items and fill in other groceries elsewhere.
I like both, but I like grocery stores in general. They fill different niches.
>prices are good
No
You go to TJ's because you're a lazy frick who will buy the hippie equivalent of a hungry man in order to feel good about wasting so much oxygen.
They've marketed themselves as environmentally friendly, while selling nothing but prepackaged foods that require ridiculous amount of packing materials per serving compared to anywhere else. They also make sure that everything in the store is their own brand with dubious quality, so they're basically the Harbor Freight of food.
>Our freezer and pantry is packed full of trader whoever's easy meals for the days I don't cook.
What sad state that, today, men are the ones who take the time to cook nice meals for their family and wives look to something quick and easy. I love my wife but in the rare times she cooks it's always "an easy usual" and the kitchen turns into a damn mess. Her mother doesn't cook anything other than slow-cooker recipes from canned ingredients.
>Our freezer and pantry is packed full of trader whoever's easy meals for the days I don't cook.
What sad state that, today, men are the ones who take the time to cook nice meals for their family and wives look to something quick and easy. I love my wife but in the rare times she cooks it's always "an easy usual" and the kitchen turns into a damn mess. Her mother doesn't cook anything other than slow-cooker recipes from canned ingredients.
Good produce, nice specific goods (like their cheese and nuts sections). Some working professionals without much time like their fresh ready-to-eat or frozen meals. I hear their coffee is alright too, though I haven't had it. It's just a generally upper-quality chain, but not absolutely autistic and megapriced like Whole Foods.
Yeah you don't go to Trader Joe's for produce, they hardly have any in the first place. Pretty sure all their produce aside from most fruits are packaged.
i like their french roast
the produce in seattle is really bad. as bad as safeway
the asian supermarket has way better produce, same with Amazon fresh and whole foods
Proteins way too expensive, but there produce is nice. I'll go there once a week to stock up onna weeks worth of fruits. Their peaches are on point and their yogurts are off the hook. Alot of stupid stuff like any other store.
Alot of yogo pants tho.... alot. Its nice.
In my experience shopping across 3 different states on opposite ends of the country their produce tends to spoil by the time you get home from the store.
I’ve ever been able to shop “for the week” there because everything fresh goes bad within a couple days
Proteins way too expensive, but there produce is nice. I'll go there once a week to stock up onna weeks worth of fruits. Their peaches are on point and their yogurts are off the hook. Alot of stupid stuff like any other store.
>Proteins way too expensive
their beef is too expensive, I never buy any from there. but their organic chicken items are much cheaper than at my supermarket.
They export their bullshit to Germany and people think it remotely resembles US products.
Since it tastes like garbage, the primary gimmick seems to be "makes the USA look like a disaster at manufactoring their own cuisine".
Looked into this, was a surprising and interesting arrangement. Did start as an American company, but was sold over to the Albrechts (and still co-managed for a decade or so). So, it's an American chain owned and operated by Germans at the top. Funny how I never took to mind their low SKU arrangement with how many times I've gone to both TJ and AlDi's. I suppose this sort of thing is kept very quiet because the Albrechts are such recluses.
Most of this type of stuff is kept low key. Callebaut (Belgian chocolate) was taken over by Barry (Swiss) but they keep calling it a Belgian chocolate and keep their (Callebaut) HQ in Belgium, solely for marketing purposes. None of their chocolate is obviously grown in Belgium (or Switzerland).
Same goes for AB Inbev, Belgium's (and the world's) biggest beer company: still located in Belgium but run by a Brazilian and the AB stands for Anheuser-Busch, "America's best-loved brewery", which is ridiculous.
They trick morons into thinking they're Jungle Jim's and wannabe yuppies (wuppies) into thinking they're Whole Foods when they're literally just Aldi. Nothing wrong with being Aldi, but you could just go to Aldi.
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Open up a container of this peanut butter cups, put your dick in it, take a pic, seal it back up, put it on the shelf, wait, take a picture of the person who picked up the container, post both pics here with time stamps or we won't believe you.
It depends on what you mean by silly. A few days ago one of my co-workers rushed customers out at closing time with his excellent Mickey Mouse impression without consequence. I could probably pull off something similar however I would most likely sperg out the moment I turn on the intercom.
>me the anon who works at joes >subtly asking every coworker if they browse the same basket weaving forum >get outed as a basket weaver >everyone ignores me from then on or asks me only about my basket weaving
>me the anon who works at joes >subtly asking every coworker if they browse the same basket weaving forum >get outed as a basket weaver >everyone ignores me from then on or asks me only about my basket weaving
How much do you make? My wife works there as a crew member and is nearly capped out at $22 something an hour. Pretty crazy considering we live in a place with a relatively low cost of living.
They have interesting and wierd snacks. Some of their stuff is hit and miss, some of its pretty frickin bomb. Vehetable nests are good. Pancake bread is good for when you don't feel like making a mess making pancakes or anything. Sometimes they have interesting cheeses.
Don't do any heavy grocery shopping there but i do get a lot of snacks, odds and ends, spices and the occasional sauce. i like their taco sauce. its different.
I will say something nobody has mentioned is that they tend to have better produce than something like walmart for a reasonable price. on par with something like fred meyer but cheaper. but you have to pick and choose, some stuff is just overpriced for what it is. that same logic extends to a lot of their dried/canned goods as far as I can tell
They have their own non-china origin jar of super chili crisp.
I can buy their starfruit seltzer water by the literal case and never get tired ofit. Vitamins and face masks are worth a look, seem to follow trends with low prices.
The sourdough dark rye is very good artisan bread.
Their simmer curry sauce comes with a dry rub seasoning packet on top, something the other brands aren't doing...yet.
Because the people who shop at TJ’s are comparing it to Whole Foods and would never be caught dead in some poorgay Shoprite store so it’s just not even on their radar
because trader joes is the place with generally cheaper essentials like milk/egg/flour/bacon (surprisingly)/jam
s/coffee/tea etc.
shoprite/stop&shop/c-town are generally more expensive in my area. they're also frequented by basketball americans and usually are in places in easy access of public transportation. i go to a couple of tradee joes locations depending on if i'm at home/office/city. the one 15 from home and near my work has mostly israeli shoppers which surprised me. not sure if that's good or bad.
produce used to be good around 2017, now it all spoils in a couple of days or so. it's not the worst since i shop every 3-7 days to re-stock cliff bars, lettuce, cheese and bread. i mostly stay away from frozen/prepared foods otherwose. but i used to buy like 5 pizzas and eat with salad. wasnt the worst but also didnt satisfy as good as my local pizzeria.
>gimmick
They give their target customers what they want.
As a result, they have far more loyal customers than any other grocery chain. A TJ customer will drive past 10 other grocery stores just to go to TJ.
Hell, when my city was in coof-mode, stores had occupancy limits.
Within just a few miles there’s 2 Kroger, 2 Publix, a super target, Whole Foods, and a couple others.
You could literally walk right into any of these places.
TJ always had a fricking line of people outside waiting to get in, despite it being hot as frick. And I’m sure the people waiting in the miserable heat/humidity were made to feel special because they were being given free bottled water.
So yeah, it isn’t a matter of gimmick. It’s a matter of knowing your customer base.
If you’re actually interested, do some googling.
There’s a ton of millennial-psychology that went into play, and was even involved in studies. One thing being floor-freezers instead of door-freezers.
Apparently millennials feel pressured to buy something if they open a freezer door. But if they can just pick it up,‘they’re more likely to examine a product they haven’t tried.
Things like that.
I think they were also one of the first stores to open up with strict well organized distancing protocols during the coof. Poorgay grocers can’t afford to rope off areas and have staff timing peoples shopping and it was mostly business as usual at those stores since they were “essential businesses” that couldn’t be closed down anyways.
So if you were hyper paranoid about the coof it seemed like the only place that was taking things seriously enough to actually mitigate your risk. Of course it’s east to just get groceries delivered if you’re that paranoid but people also wanted an excuse to leave the house so they “needed” to go get groceries 5 times a week since it was the only sanctioned activity until the St. Floyd Riots.
2020 was the year that made me realize that israelites are right about us. Goyim are cattle, barely more sentient than pigs and goats.
Produce is pretty good, organic chicken, eggs and wild-caught salmon and sausages are reasonably priced, beef is usually more expensive than other places. Good bacon but not necessarily cheap. Lots of nice food that seems to be cheaper and tastier than it would be at Vons, like feta cheese, artichokes, olives, hard cheeses, etc. Most of their jarred goods are jarred in olive oil instead of seed oil which is good. The food I buy from there seems simpler than other places, like there are less ingredients, especially weird chemical ones.
Alcohol selection is pretty good, none of the house brands are amazing in my experience but not bad for the price.
Customer service is always great and the store layout is pretty well organised. Cute girls usually work there.
And finally and most importantly, I rarely see non-whites in TJs despite living in a 50% mexican area. That alone makes it worth it.
>I rarely see non-whites in TJs despite living in a 50% mexican area. That alone makes it worth it.
I have maybe 20% or less hispanics in my city but now that you mention it I pretty much never see mexicans there.
I go there because it's cheap and the produce is good. I don't buy frozen premade shit but from what I've tried it's still good.
Meats are a little pricey , i would go to costco if I wanted to buy in bulk and save more
I like their frozen Indian food, kimchi, and greek yogurt. Plus they have neat snacks like those Israeli peanut puff things. And for the most part its cheaper than my local grocery stores with all of the same meat and produce so there's practically no reason for me not to frequent it for most of my needs. I still go to Costco for some things though like peanut butter, prescription medications (they stock better generic brands than other pharmacies and if my insurance isn't paying its still ridiculously cheap compared to CVS and those sorts of places), some supplements, toilet paper, etc. Oh, and the occasional hotdog always brings a smile to my face
It's great for specific things. Missing a lot of items you can find at supermarkets, but the things they do have are generally high quality and a good price. I usually go there then go to Ralph's on the way back for stuff they didn't have. The employees are also very friendly and professional.
Their green tea ice cream has a surprisingly short list of simple, natural ingredients. The popular brands at asian markets near me and the stuff you'd find at a regular grocery store like Häagen-Dazs are full of preservatives and whatever else. You can't say the same about a lot of other things at TJ, but their green tea ice cream is definitely commendable
add the breakfast sandwiches to the list of things not to buy. i paid for 2, they were made from turkey, didn't have anything but turkey and egg and bread, and cost 4 times the prices of just buying the higher quality breakfast sandwiches at any other location.
but the cookie butter is really good. also the chocolate trailmix. and the peanut granola.
They appeal to dog brained white-women by using fancy packaging that was typically reserved for specialty lightly processed organic foods on regular junk food so they can eat their human kibbles while pretending it’s “healthy”.
Doritos and Reese’s Cups BAD
“whole grain natural cheddar chips” and “Dark Chocolate Sunflower Seed cups” GOOD IT’S NATURAL LOOK AT THE PRETTY FLOWERS
For snacks I think their Cheetos and potato chips taste better than other brands
Two odd choices I like are these plantain chips with Jerk seasoning and these peanut butter puff snacks
While not candy they've got a lot of good sweets too
Chocolate batons are my go to, I like getting ginger beer from them(and especially the triple brew that they sell only in the winter), fig jam and lemon curd are great, chocolate covered peanut butter pretzels, the classic joejoes, and also in the winter they've got these huge toffee tins
The store makes me cringe whenever my gf brings me. Everything feels so beyond "extra" that it annoys me. They can't just have chocolate covered pretzels, they need to have extra dark german chocolate nut butter covered sea salt pretzels. All of their items are super specialized and "quirky" like it was made for zoomer women. I fricking hate it. Their prices are good, but their selection is fricked. They don't even have soft drinks except for Ginger Beer, for example. What the frick? It's a store designed for women. Also my store in particular is filled with troony workers (I live in Chicago) and they even have fricking downies bag your groceries and they try to make awkward as frick conversation with you while not giving you direct eye contact and it just feels super fricking weird. Almost like they are the store slaves that they parade around to appear progressive. Frick I hate it so much it makes my skin crawl.
yea i went to one this morning in naperville for the first time and outside of a stock boy i was the only man there
lots of nurses still in their scrubs
i loaded up on snacks and tried a chicken sausage breakfast burrito that turned out to be pretty good
They have some things they excel at and some things they are poor at just like every other store. A lot of their brand stuff is pretty good. Just off the top of my head I like them for;
Cheaper Organic Coffee
Rice Crackers
Italian Sausage
Chocolate
Cheese Selection
Organic bagged greens
Precut organic broccoli
Apples
Lamb
Gluten free everything, especially tortillas and bagels, english muffins all really good and reasonably priced
Olive Oil
Bottled Carbonated water
Bad part is the selection and their tea is not very good.
it has a lot of frozen food, snacks, and booze at competitive prices, but you don't have to purchase that.
They stock all the normal groceries you need, also at pretty decent prices (better than the other nationals like Safeway/Kroger)
The only catch is that their produce is clearly bought on the cheap because its about to go bad, so you better eat it right after you buy it.
I once kinda 'picked up' a cashier at TJs. I would just go in there regularly and talk to her and we had a shared interest (surfing) and then one day she was like 'we should go surfing together some time' and she gave me her number. I never even put it in my phone because i'm married.
banana water
>half the store is frozen foods
oh so by that logic this board should shop exclusively there since no one here can actually cook
It’s a store for suburban white women who are cooklets
I've only been to one of these and before I walked inside I saw some kid grabbing a watermelon from the box of them by the door and just trying to bounce it on the rest of them like a basketball
should I even ask what race they were
Duh white kid. It's a trader Joe's. He's a little wigger man
>Pacific Island theme
>Cheap(ish) staples and premade food
I remember reading that Trader Joes target areas with people that are overeducated and underpaid. That's pretty much their gimmick: target single people or DINKs at the beginning of their careers that feel like they don't have enough time to cook elaborate meals but still want food that's trendy and varied.
>what's the gimmick
lots of single people frozen meals, generally good prices on everything but their ready to eat fresh prepared food packs. Expect the chicken salad tub to be like $7, but th Their produce is high as well.
>I remember reading that Trader Joes target areas with people that are overeducated and underpaid.
it's very high per capita income areas, actually. Think Naples, FL or Pinecrest FL or northern Virginia tech corrider. Because of lots of social media buzz, they'll also be in private university areas as well, places parents are footing the bill for the apartments since student housing is as unaffordable to students without mom and dad also buying a condo for 4 years instead. Underpaid? no. Intern in a courthouse or law firm, maybe. Most areas you see a TJs are places people would dine out nightly, and far more often than make a damn thing at home. Their wines, nuts snacks, crackers are just pantry items to hold until the next time you have to eat in.
That sounds extremely accurate. Though obviously plenty of families and boomers shop there too.
this store caters to single young urban professionals.
products and produce packaged/sold in smaller quantities, and priced individually, at a markup.
high quality convenience items, easy to cook/frozen.
"natural/organic" and unique variety food items, at least they give off the brand image.
store branding using this natural/organic brand image, to justify marked up price.
loss leaders (wine) amongst marked up premium items (cheese, cereal).
this is the most accurate as is
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i like their red and yellow curry sauces. they have really nice staples for someone who likes to cook but doesnt have a lot of time energy or space, including:
-bags of frozen chicken breast
-bagged salads
-stir fry vegetables or pre-shucked corn that can go in the microwave
-frozen salmon bags
-cheap eggs, butter, milk
-skyr
-good spice mixes (the elote is really bomb on roast veggies)
and thats just the stuff i buy, though as a former fatty it's hard to pass by all the aisles of cookies, chocolate, sweets, snacks, chips etc. there is an overabundance of easy high calorie snack food which is a nightmare for me. plus you have to check the frozen food cause it can be marked as 500 calories but then the service size is 1/4 a "bowl" or whatever. the frozen tikka masala and butter chicken are really good though. the frozen naan and fry breads are calorie sinks too.
t. college educated but paid barely above minimum wage
Yeah I mostly go there to get the curry sauce or frozen stuff once in a while. They have much better frozen stuff than most grocery stores, and in general aren't that expensive. Mixed luck on produce and meat, I usually go other places for those.
How is working there? I worked at other grocery stores but they always seemed to pay better although the weird register setup seems annoying as frick
NTA but I also work there. If you're going to work retail, get a job there. It's easy as frick. People stay there forever because of how secure it is, the pay is good for the amount of responsibility you have, in my state the wage capped at $25/hr. There's a schedule/log at the front desk. everyone's shift is divided into one hour blocks, and it typically alternates being on the register or working stock. Only problem is you're expected to be an outgoing employee for customers so if you have the 'tism it's not gonna work.
My retail days are over thank god, on the remote technical gravy train. But if everything blows up in my face somehow I'll keep it in mind.
Sounds easier than the supermarket I worked at for less than half that pay
There is shockingly little “organic” food there if you look. Most of it is just normal produce(that spoils faster than what you get at any other supermarket) and junk food with fancy packaging.
This place is my wife's second home. Our freezer and pantry is packed full of trader whoever's easy meals for the days I don't cook.
I will say that the prices are pretty good, I've seen what she brings home in comparison to my grocery hauls at a 1/3-1/4 the price. They only have a few good items and they're mainly snacks, and I dont really snack.
>the prices are pretty good, I've seen what she brings home in comparison to my grocery hauls at a 1/3-1/4 the price
yeah, right
In these threads it's always pretty obvious who has shopped at TJ's and who hasn't.
Yes, Trader Joe's has low prices because it's owned by the same company as ALDI. They use the same business tactics as ALDI, but have a nicer façade so yuppies like it more.
If you have an ALDI near you, there's not much point in shopping at trader joe's.
Unless, you know, if you want one of the 1000 things sold at trader joes that isn't at aldi. Moron.
>"Listen to me, Trader Joe's is the ONLY place you can get the BEST frozen basmati rice and lemon Joe Joe's. Yum!"
Ooof, you're one of those. Welcome to my cringe collection.
Why do you create fantasies and then get mad at them? Are you mentally ill?
>they put Trader Joe's in nice towns and ALDI in shitty poor towns
>they just opened a new ALDI in my town
my dad said not to go to Aldi because it's just israeli shit. is he wrong
Yeah he sounds pretty stupid.
yeah aldi is great
Theo Albrecht, who co-founded Aldi with his brother, is a Wehrmacht veteran.
Aldi is two different businesses, in Europe. They are brothers, as I recall. Instead of competing head to head in markets, they've agreed to avoid each other. The US Aldi is not the same Aldi that bought Trader Joes.
The businesses do have a lot in common, though. They push their own brands, limit floor space by limiting inventory, focus on high traffic stores.
US Aldi specializes in lower cost, TJ's specializes in appealing to shoppers that want trendy items and the ambiance. In both cases, some of their in-house brands are good, and some are really meh. Regular shoppers at each tend to look for specific items and fill in other groceries elsewhere.
I like both, but I like grocery stores in general. They fill different niches.
>prices are good
No
You go to TJ's because you're a lazy frick who will buy the hippie equivalent of a hungry man in order to feel good about wasting so much oxygen.
Trader Joe is peak capitalism, where's the hippie part?
Their unwashed customers
They've marketed themselves as environmentally friendly, while selling nothing but prepackaged foods that require ridiculous amount of packing materials per serving compared to anywhere else. They also make sure that everything in the store is their own brand with dubious quality, so they're basically the Harbor Freight of food.
Most of the frozen foods just come in plain bags, less packaging than most frozen meals I've seen elsewhere.
>Our freezer and pantry is packed full of trader whoever's easy meals for the days I don't cook.
What sad state that, today, men are the ones who take the time to cook nice meals for their family and wives look to something quick and easy. I love my wife but in the rare times she cooks it's always "an easy usual" and the kitchen turns into a damn mess. Her mother doesn't cook anything other than slow-cooker recipes from canned ingredients.
I prefer it. Ever since I started cooking I can't trust any woman to cook anymore.
I actually kinda agree with the prices
I don't think they're fantastic, but a lot of their items are cheaper than other chain grocery stores
They have really good frozen stuff. Cheap booze too
Their snacks are good too. Like the Trader Joe's generic version of the Pirate's Booty white cheddar poofs, and their peanut butter pretzels.
I can tell you're a girl by how you typed this message. would you want to hang out sometime
I really like their Scandinavian Swimmers candy. Way better than Swedish fish.
Good produce, nice specific goods (like their cheese and nuts sections). Some working professionals without much time like their fresh ready-to-eat or frozen meals. I hear their coffee is alright too, though I haven't had it. It's just a generally upper-quality chain, but not absolutely autistic and megapriced like Whole Foods.
Where the hell do you live? The produce is the worst part of trader joe's. It liquifies in my fridge after a day or two. Oh but the bananas are good
Yeah you don't go to Trader Joe's for produce, they hardly have any in the first place. Pretty sure all their produce aside from most fruits are packaged.
i like their french roast
the produce in seattle is really bad. as bad as safeway
the asian supermarket has way better produce, same with Amazon fresh and whole foods
In my experience shopping across 3 different states on opposite ends of the country their produce tends to spoil by the time you get home from the store.
I’ve ever been able to shop “for the week” there because everything fresh goes bad within a couple days
Proteins way too expensive, but there produce is nice. I'll go there once a week to stock up onna weeks worth of fruits. Their peaches are on point and their yogurts are off the hook. Alot of stupid stuff like any other store.
Alot of yogo pants tho.... alot. Its nice.
>Proteins way too expensive
their beef is too expensive, I never buy any from there. but their organic chicken items are much cheaper than at my supermarket.
They export their bullshit to Germany and people think it remotely resembles US products.
Since it tastes like garbage, the primary gimmick seems to be "makes the USA look like a disaster at manufactoring their own cuisine".
It IS a German company tho. It’s literally Aldi
Didn't even know that. Employee literally pretended they offer original US stuff. Feel stupid now.
Ever taste their blueberry syrup? Vomit-tier shit.
That just sounds awful
Looked into this, was a surprising and interesting arrangement. Did start as an American company, but was sold over to the Albrechts (and still co-managed for a decade or so). So, it's an American chain owned and operated by Germans at the top. Funny how I never took to mind their low SKU arrangement with how many times I've gone to both TJ and AlDi's. I suppose this sort of thing is kept very quiet because the Albrechts are such recluses.
Most of this type of stuff is kept low key. Callebaut (Belgian chocolate) was taken over by Barry (Swiss) but they keep calling it a Belgian chocolate and keep their (Callebaut) HQ in Belgium, solely for marketing purposes. None of their chocolate is obviously grown in Belgium (or Switzerland).
Same goes for AB Inbev, Belgium's (and the world's) biggest beer company: still located in Belgium but run by a Brazilian and the AB stands for Anheuser-Busch, "America's best-loved brewery", which is ridiculous.
It's literally not. All of their inventory is different.
typical confidently clueless German
It’s quite telling that ethnic Germans make up the majority of US flyover states. That moronic arrogance and simplistic mentality never left.
German cuisine is just gray sludge, cabbage, and pig snout ground up and stuffed in pig intestine. Literally worse than britbong food
Black person please German food > Britbong food any day of the week.
Germans literally don’t know how to cook so they just leave their hamburgers raw like barbarians
Mettbrot is fricking delicious.
Good looking women workers and shoppers.
4 fuji apples in a plastic box
Cheaper than you think because they resell generic brands. It's wal-mart for people who consider themselves liberals.
They trick morons into thinking they're Jungle Jim's and wannabe yuppies (wuppies) into thinking they're Whole Foods when they're literally just Aldi. Nothing wrong with being Aldi, but you could just go to Aldi.
how do you know about jungle jims
you a cincinnati bro?
I like their Thai red curry sauce. That's about it though.
I bought some kind of peanut salsa there today this stuff is pretty good
everyone saying theyre cheap is literally falling for their marketing scheme. if you are lookng for cheap groceries this is not the place to go.
it's cheap without sacrificing much quality for most items.
Best way I can describe it
>be me, straight cisgender male
>want to have sex with woman
>for no real reason end up having sex with man instead
>at least I had sex, even though it was weird and it left me confused and unfullfiled
>I guess it wasn't all bad, still not gay though
>Literally fricks dudes
>guys im not gay
homosexual.
That's the main point of the comparison
i work at trader joes
my shift is in 15 minutes i can provide a pic with timestamp
i believe u bro
Open up a container of this peanut butter cups, put your dick in it, take a pic, seal it back up, put it on the shelf, wait, take a picture of the person who picked up the container, post both pics here with time stamps or we won't believe you.
n-no thanks. just give me a discount on the lamb curry.
apologies for the late delivery, gentlemen. wageslaving for trader israelite is time-consuming.
Can you say silly stuff over the intercom?
It depends on what you mean by silly. A few days ago one of my co-workers rushed customers out at closing time with his excellent Mickey Mouse impression without consequence. I could probably pull off something similar however I would most likely sperg out the moment I turn on the intercom.
holy shit thats the same store i work at
>me the anon who works at joes
>subtly asking every coworker if they browse the same basket weaving forum
>get outed as a basket weaver
>everyone ignores me from then on or asks me only about my basket weaving
gottem
A-are you guys gonna go on a date 0.0
do cute single girls work at trader joes?
can i date them if i work there?
How much do you make? My wife works there as a crew member and is nearly capped out at $22 something an hour. Pretty crazy considering we live in a place with a relatively low cost of living.
They have interesting and wierd snacks. Some of their stuff is hit and miss, some of its pretty frickin bomb. Vehetable nests are good. Pancake bread is good for when you don't feel like making a mess making pancakes or anything. Sometimes they have interesting cheeses.
Don't do any heavy grocery shopping there but i do get a lot of snacks, odds and ends, spices and the occasional sauce. i like their taco sauce. its different.
I will say something nobody has mentioned is that they tend to have better produce than something like walmart for a reasonable price. on par with something like fred meyer but cheaper. but you have to pick and choose, some stuff is just overpriced for what it is. that same logic extends to a lot of their dried/canned goods as far as I can tell
>on par with something like fred meyer
That's really not saying much.
They store their produce next to the wet compactor.
I go there to buy random snacks and curiosities. They had cornbread pita chip things that were pretty good.
Only things I go there to buy regularly are zhoug and tempeh
The Grocery Jester actually preforms his job well.
Unlike the crack addicts that Kroger seems to hire.
The Grocery Jester keeps putting Beyond meat in my shopping cart
They have their own non-china origin jar of super chili crisp.
I can buy their starfruit seltzer water by the literal case and never get tired ofit. Vitamins and face masks are worth a look, seem to follow trends with low prices.
The sourdough dark rye is very good artisan bread.
Their simmer curry sauce comes with a dry rub seasoning packet on top, something the other brands aren't doing...yet.
>non-china origin jar of super chili crisp.
give it
The dairy and frozen food are great. Good liquor selection too if you have one of those stores. The produce is radioactive, stay away
you may not know this, but you can get a finger in the bum at checkout just asking for "Joe's dirty special"
Why do people always say they have cheap stuff? I went this weekend and everything was 20%+ more expensive than the same items at a big box store
Because the people who shop at TJ’s are comparing it to Whole Foods and would never be caught dead in some poorgay Shoprite store so it’s just not even on their radar
what are you buying?
because trader joes is the place with generally cheaper essentials like milk/egg/flour/bacon (surprisingly)/jam
s/coffee/tea etc.
shoprite/stop&shop/c-town are generally more expensive in my area. they're also frequented by basketball americans and usually are in places in easy access of public transportation. i go to a couple of tradee joes locations depending on if i'm at home/office/city. the one 15 from home and near my work has mostly israeli shoppers which surprised me. not sure if that's good or bad.
produce used to be good around 2017, now it all spoils in a couple of days or so. it's not the worst since i shop every 3-7 days to re-stock cliff bars, lettuce, cheese and bread. i mostly stay away from frozen/prepared foods otherwose. but i used to buy like 5 pizzas and eat with salad. wasnt the worst but also didnt satisfy as good as my local pizzeria.
2 buck child frick that's pretty much it.
Oops *2 buck Chuck
2 buck sneed*
No, Chuck. Charles Shaw.
charles shaw? did he take over hansens position
>gimmick
They give their target customers what they want.
As a result, they have far more loyal customers than any other grocery chain. A TJ customer will drive past 10 other grocery stores just to go to TJ.
Hell, when my city was in coof-mode, stores had occupancy limits.
Within just a few miles there’s 2 Kroger, 2 Publix, a super target, Whole Foods, and a couple others.
You could literally walk right into any of these places.
TJ always had a fricking line of people outside waiting to get in, despite it being hot as frick. And I’m sure the people waiting in the miserable heat/humidity were made to feel special because they were being given free bottled water.
So yeah, it isn’t a matter of gimmick. It’s a matter of knowing your customer base.
If you’re actually interested, do some googling.
There’s a ton of millennial-psychology that went into play, and was even involved in studies. One thing being floor-freezers instead of door-freezers.
Apparently millennials feel pressured to buy something if they open a freezer door. But if they can just pick it up,‘they’re more likely to examine a product they haven’t tried.
Things like that.
>millennial-psychology
That sounds like the most depression inducing career choice you could possibly make
Worse than being in an alcoholic dead end backwater in rural Siberia
rofl
I think they were also one of the first stores to open up with strict well organized distancing protocols during the coof. Poorgay grocers can’t afford to rope off areas and have staff timing peoples shopping and it was mostly business as usual at those stores since they were “essential businesses” that couldn’t be closed down anyways.
So if you were hyper paranoid about the coof it seemed like the only place that was taking things seriously enough to actually mitigate your risk. Of course it’s east to just get groceries delivered if you’re that paranoid but people also wanted an excuse to leave the house so they “needed” to go get groceries 5 times a week since it was the only sanctioned activity until the St. Floyd Riots.
2020 was the year that made me realize that israelites are right about us. Goyim are cattle, barely more sentient than pigs and goats.
Grandma lived next to one so we'd go get groceries when I stayed over (20 years ago). Was nice. No idea what it's like now
I had to go to Seattle one time for a MAP convention and I saw a black in there once. Not even joking.
You went to Seattle for a pedo convention?
They exclusively hire young attractive art hoes and thicc goth gfs
There’s always a fat gen-X manager with a beard and Hawaiian shirt up front creeping on them too
A pedophile and a little boy are walking into the woods late at night.
The little boy says, “I’m scared.”
The pedophile says, “You think you’re scared? I have to walk back alone!”
Produce is pretty good, organic chicken, eggs and wild-caught salmon and sausages are reasonably priced, beef is usually more expensive than other places. Good bacon but not necessarily cheap. Lots of nice food that seems to be cheaper and tastier than it would be at Vons, like feta cheese, artichokes, olives, hard cheeses, etc. Most of their jarred goods are jarred in olive oil instead of seed oil which is good. The food I buy from there seems simpler than other places, like there are less ingredients, especially weird chemical ones.
Alcohol selection is pretty good, none of the house brands are amazing in my experience but not bad for the price.
Customer service is always great and the store layout is pretty well organised. Cute girls usually work there.
And finally and most importantly, I rarely see non-whites in TJs despite living in a 50% mexican area. That alone makes it worth it.
>I rarely see non-whites in TJs despite living in a 50% mexican area. That alone makes it worth it.
I have maybe 20% or less hispanics in my city but now that you mention it I pretty much never see mexicans there.
you trade in joes for food
>go to trader joes
>try to barter my goods with the cashier
>asked to leave
too fricking expensive
>chicken thighs 4.99 lb
>porkchops 6.99 lb
>small portions
>everything is organic artisan bullshit markup
Like Whole Foods but not the whole paycheck.
Best prices for milk and eggs in my area
That's true for my area as well. How strange. I wonder why what that is.
mine too, cheapest organic milk and eggs.
1/10 the selection of a regular grocery store
I go there because it's cheap and the produce is good. I don't buy frozen premade shit but from what I've tried it's still good.
Meats are a little pricey , i would go to costco if I wanted to buy in bulk and save more
I only ever go there to purchase kefir, their store brand peach flavored kefir is delicious
Maple cookies and cheap sushi.
I like their frozen Indian food, kimchi, and greek yogurt. Plus they have neat snacks like those Israeli peanut puff things. And for the most part its cheaper than my local grocery stores with all of the same meat and produce so there's practically no reason for me not to frequent it for most of my needs. I still go to Costco for some things though like peanut butter, prescription medications (they stock better generic brands than other pharmacies and if my insurance isn't paying its still ridiculously cheap compared to CVS and those sorts of places), some supplements, toilet paper, etc. Oh, and the occasional hotdog always brings a smile to my face
It's great for specific things. Missing a lot of items you can find at supermarkets, but the things they do have are generally high quality and a good price. I usually go there then go to Ralph's on the way back for stuff they didn't have. The employees are also very friendly and professional.
Their green tea ice cream has a surprisingly short list of simple, natural ingredients. The popular brands at asian markets near me and the stuff you'd find at a regular grocery store like Häagen-Dazs are full of preservatives and whatever else. You can't say the same about a lot of other things at TJ, but their green tea ice cream is definitely commendable
this lol. and their frozen fruit and frozen bananas with choccy are good.
>You can't say the same about a lot of other things at TJ
But you can, that's why it's good
It's just one tier above straight up soylent. All of their stuff is made to appeal to people who are too stupid and lazy to fend for themselves.
Trader Joes has good Chinese and Indian prepackaged food. Don't buy the Vietnamese pho at Trader Joes. You will regret it.
add the breakfast sandwiches to the list of things not to buy. i paid for 2, they were made from turkey, didn't have anything but turkey and egg and bread, and cost 4 times the prices of just buying the higher quality breakfast sandwiches at any other location.
but the cookie butter is really good. also the chocolate trailmix. and the peanut granola.
thanks anon i was curious. luckily pho and vermicelli noodles arent far away from me.
bawds
They appeal to dog brained white-women by using fancy packaging that was typically reserved for specialty lightly processed organic foods on regular junk food so they can eat their human kibbles while pretending it’s “healthy”.
Doritos and Reese’s Cups BAD
“whole grain natural cheddar chips” and “Dark Chocolate Sunflower Seed cups” GOOD IT’S NATURAL LOOK AT THE PRETTY FLOWERS
>Doritos ingredients
Corn, Vegetable Oil (Corn, Canola, And/or Sunflower Oil), Maltodextrin (Made From Corn), Salt, Cheddar Cheese (Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Whey, Monosodium Glutamate, Buttermilk, Romano Cheese (Part-skim Cow's Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Whey Protein Concentrate, Onion Powder, Corn Flour, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Dextrose, Tomato Powder, Lactose, Spices, Artificial Color (Yellow 6, Yellow 5, And Red 40), Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Skim Milk, Red And Green Bell Pepper Powder, Disodium Inosinate, And Disodium Guanylate.
>Trader Joe's Corn Chip ingredients
organic ground yellow corn, organic sunflower oil, sea salt.
You can buy plain corn chips at any supermarket too without the markup
white Women think its whole foods but its just snacks and frozen foods
so what are the best snacks and candies from this place if that's the only good stuff
cookie butter, peanut butter trail mix, coconut granola and a multivitamin that will motivate you to delete your frog photos
For snacks I think their Cheetos and potato chips taste better than other brands
Two odd choices I like are these plantain chips with Jerk seasoning and these peanut butter puff snacks
While not candy they've got a lot of good sweets too
Chocolate batons are my go to, I like getting ginger beer from them(and especially the triple brew that they sell only in the winter), fig jam and lemon curd are great, chocolate covered peanut butter pretzels, the classic joejoes, and also in the winter they've got these huge toffee tins
>ridge cut S&P chips with artichoke and jalapeño dip
>pita chips and mediterranean hummus
>trail mix crackers
>their knockoff takis
>elote chips
>halvah
>coconut and chocolate covered almonds
>honey sesame almonds
>bazaar basket trail mix
>scandinavian swimmers
The store makes me cringe whenever my gf brings me. Everything feels so beyond "extra" that it annoys me. They can't just have chocolate covered pretzels, they need to have extra dark german chocolate nut butter covered sea salt pretzels. All of their items are super specialized and "quirky" like it was made for zoomer women. I fricking hate it. Their prices are good, but their selection is fricked. They don't even have soft drinks except for Ginger Beer, for example. What the frick? It's a store designed for women. Also my store in particular is filled with troony workers (I live in Chicago) and they even have fricking downies bag your groceries and they try to make awkward as frick conversation with you while not giving you direct eye contact and it just feels super fricking weird. Almost like they are the store slaves that they parade around to appear progressive. Frick I hate it so much it makes my skin crawl.
I like some of their candy though.
yea i went to one this morning in naperville for the first time and outside of a stock boy i was the only man there
lots of nurses still in their scrubs
i loaded up on snacks and tried a chicken sausage breakfast burrito that turned out to be pretty good
some stuff trader joes has is stuff that you cannot get anywhere else.
They have some things they excel at and some things they are poor at just like every other store. A lot of their brand stuff is pretty good. Just off the top of my head I like them for;
Cheaper Organic Coffee
Rice Crackers
Italian Sausage
Chocolate
Cheese Selection
Organic bagged greens
Precut organic broccoli
Apples
Lamb
Gluten free everything, especially tortillas and bagels, english muffins all really good and reasonably priced
Olive Oil
Bottled Carbonated water
Bad part is the selection and their tea is not very good.
just a heads up, trader joes has this hummus, and it's the best hummus you can buy anywhere. nothing compares.
I like their cheap wine selection, easily the most cost effective way to get drunk without resorting to malt liquor.
it has a lot of frozen food, snacks, and booze at competitive prices, but you don't have to purchase that.
They stock all the normal groceries you need, also at pretty decent prices (better than the other nationals like Safeway/Kroger)
The only catch is that their produce is clearly bought on the cheap because its about to go bad, so you better eat it right after you buy it.
finna buy some peanut butter cups and cookie butter cookies
The cashiers are loose prostitutes
How do you pick up a cashier without sperging?
I once kinda 'picked up' a cashier at TJs. I would just go in there regularly and talk to her and we had a shared interest (surfing) and then one day she was like 'we should go surfing together some time' and she gave me her number. I never even put it in my phone because i'm married.
Did you ever go back?
the wedding ring is only a turn on for trader joes prostitutes
YOU DON'T BUY PRODUCE BY THE POUND, THEY PRICE THEM PER PIECE
YOU CAN'T FIND A SCALE TO WEIGH YOUR APPLES ANYWHERE, THEY PRICE THEM INDIVIDUALLY
u can buy bananas at 19 cents a piece. 5 bananas for a dollar!GAY2J
Mostly being shitlibs.