Very Interesting Read on Trader Joe's

It sounds kind quaint, kinda like VCR

 

My mother's been in love with Trader Joe's since the Larchmont store referenced in the article opened.

There's one near me now, but it's in a weird location. It's on a main street, but it's on the second floor and it's basically built into a parking garage. You enter the lot from the road that runs behind the store, parallel to the main road. You drive to the second floor, and there's the store -- right inside the parking garage.

I actually kind of forget about it. There's a Dominick's nearby that's pretty good & when I want yuppy food or need to just pick up one or two items, the third largest Whole Foods in the world opened recently just two blocks from me.

And as someone pointed out, Trader Joe's inventory can make it hard to do all of your shopping there. They just don't stock everything you need.

They do carry my favorite candy bar:



But then I found that World Market also carries it and World Market is closer & has better parking.

 

Everyone keeps saying this is Yuppie food. It really is not. It's as cheap as Wal Mart in many cases. It is just good suff.

You just do not get name brands.

 

Right, and the article basically said a lot of it is name-brand stuff in TJ's packaging.

 

Yup. DC is crawling with them.

 

Love Trader Joe's, but would marry Wegman's, if that were possible.

Pretty sure Whole Foods is the supermarket in hell.

 

Whole Foods is fine if you can deal with the people who are better than you. Since that describes everyone in my sphere, I am ok with this.

What exactly is the obsession with Wegman's? The love paid to this chain is deep and multi-branched, here and elsewhere. Where I am, the land of Food Lion, I cannot conceptualize what this place must be. Can someone break it down in language I can understand?

 

Happy Birthday to She Who Must Be Obeyed.

Oh, and Spinited and I will just mention that she's a young'un