Trader Joe's: Do you love 'em or hate 'em?

[Raster]

Discuss.

[ForrestGump]

1. Love - passionately

I want to make sweet love with their viands.

Well, okay, maybe I got a little carried away there. But they are good

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. I refuse to use them

ALL of their fruits and veggies are sold in plastic containers

[cmf]

6. Never have shopped there,

But that would be enough to turn me off for good.

[radwriter0555]

7. So recycle them.

It isn't that hard! They're not styrofoam.

They are great for packing lunches in, for freezing leftovers, camping, picnicing, travelling and storage.

Egads! NOT shopping at a great, organically and locally oriented grocery store with OUTSTANDING products is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[Clovis Sangrail]

11. why recycle when it's easier to just not consume?

I can get far better produce at farmers' markets, and I can go to an health food store that is ACTUALLY LOCALLY OWNED for what I can't get at the farmers' market.

Trader Joes is a fake health food store for the benifit of yuppies

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

15. Don't eat the plastic

Some people think it is high in fiber but it is not.

[realFedUp]

3. love em

but good point about fruits and veggies in plastic....

[LuminousX]

4. Love them

They are awesome. Yes, their meat and veggies are sold in plastic containers. Oh well.

[MrBenchley]

5. Love em

Great meatballs...

Want an easy great dinner? Saute some chicken breasts, dump on a jar of their green salsa, cook for a while, add cheese.

Many good products, and pleasant folks...what's not to like?!

[pansypoo53219]

8. fooey

i ain't payin. i can brew a better cup with 8 O'clock columbian or Gevalia.

[flamingyouth]

9. Basically love them

Great wine and snacks, and they have a fabulous dishwashing detergent (with enzymes, under their own label - check it out - works great). I have had the same feeling about the fruits/veggies in plastic, and I usually buy mine at the Pike Place Market or at another organic market in town.

Excellent point that someone made about reusing the containers, though. We are always taking our extra food (my hubby and I cook up a storm on the weekends) to some of the elderly people in our building who live alone, and these plastic things are great for that, and they don't feel like they need to bother to return them to us - plus, I know that they reuse them as well.

[Raster]

18. Hi there flamin'...

...we love the "Market" also.

[newyawker99]

20. Congrats jdolsen!! 500 posts

:toast:

[pansypoo53219]

10. oops, that's my startbucks rant

we have OUTPOST's and they have mostly paper. i go to a local butcher and its wrapped in paper.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. Love em for certain things, hate em for others

If they have a wine I already know on sale I will buy, otherwise their wines are a crap shoot.

On the reverse, it is easy to shop for a diabetic diet for my mother there as they carry a number of gluten free products.

BTW, their handmade tortillas are AWESOME!

[Kat45]

13. Love 'em.

Good stuff, decent prices.

[MaineDem]

14. POUT

I've heard about them but I don't know of any in my neck of the woods.

[MissMillie]

16. Like 'em

For regular grocery shopping, not so much, but if I'm gonna have a party and want some fun munchies and drinks, they've got the stuff.

[catzies]

17. Love them passionately. Everything about them. Zero complaints.

Since my daughter grew up and moved out I never go to the "corporate grocery store" anymore. OK, maybe for one thing: ranch dressing.

I get EVERYTHING else at Trader Joe's and the farmers' market.

[Ediacara]

19. Love em

I used to work there and then I loved em even more than before. I have a few complaints though: everything seems to be flavored with either seseme or ginger, which is just overdone, and the produce sucks ass because they can't get it from local vendors and it's all packaged in plastic boxes. I am sure that in California the produce was fine, but where I worked in Seattle, it's 2-3 days older.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Hate him. . . ooops, thought it said TRAITOR Joe

Lieberman

:evilgrin:

[geniph]

22. Love 'em for some things

and don't buy the others. I am very fond of some of their specialty frozen and prepared foods, and they are a good supplier of fair-trade shade-grown coffees. I don't buy staples there, or (for the most part) produce. They have great imported candies and whatnot, and their prices on vitamins and herbal supplements is much better than most drugstores.