Trader Joe’s has never seemed like a competitor to Whole Foods. I have never purchased any meat or produce at a Trader Joes, whereas that’s the main reason to go to Whole Foods.
Trader Joes seems like an overgrown wine specialty store to me. It’s fantastic at Christmas when you are constantly having guests and want to impress them with 19 varieties of crab stuffed mushrooms, but don’t actually want to cook.
I can’t imagine doing straight-up grocery shopping there.
I could imagine it at Whole Foods if I had a net worth in the tens of millions.
Sprouts is a really cool store.
Well TJ’s has what we need. We get away with $80 per week grocery shopping there. Lees than half of what Whole Paycheck would run us.
“Trader Joes seems like an overgrown wine specialty store to me. It’s fantastic at Christmas when you are constantly having guests and want to impress them with 19 varieties of crab stuffed mushrooms, but don’t actually want to cook.”
We go to TJ’s during the holidays and for some of the birthday parties, we host for their good appetizers to serve with minimal hasssle.
Twice in this last decade, my wife had a couple of serious operations, and my incredible charcoaling didn’t work 7 days a week. I bought all types of frozen dinners, sea food and pasta dishes and stuff for two people. I, also, didn’t have time for a lot of shopping.
Then, I went to their frozen food section of two aisles and got the main courses and then went 25’ to their produce section for veggies, salad and fruit. I was in and out using their fast checkout lines in 10 to 15 minuts. I didn’t want to leave my wife very long.
We will be back for appetizers and quick to fix items starting in mid November to New Years. Then, they will not see us for months.