What in God's good name is Trader Joes?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Please enlighten me. The only thing I know about the place is that half the people who go there are lesbians, and the other half of the people choose to stay in the car. :shrug:

[SteppingRazor]

1. Not nearly as much fun as Trader Vic's?

:shrug:

[LeftyMom]

2. It's a grocery store.

They carry kind of a mix of health and foodie stuff, and a lot of booze, and they're cheap. Needless to say, that makes them very popular with the lushes in the lounge set.

[kwassa]

10. Our TJs have no booze ..... local liquor laws

They still do huge business just with the food.

[LeftyMom]

14. That's the nice thing about CA. Except for a few cities with limited permits, most anyplace can sell

almost any kind of alcohol. And everything is open on Sundays, which drives me nuts when I travel to areas where things close down.

[kwassa]

17. We actually have country liquor stores

Not state, county, and I think we are the only county in the country that does.

I miss the easy access, too.

[leeroysphitz]

45. Your post ,makes me want to move to California and drink and drink and...

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[Lex]

3. OMG, teh lesbians go there?! No wonder the other half stay in the car

eh?

[XemaSab]

4. It's a grocery store

They've got a LOT of wines for under 5 dollars, nuts/dried fruit/snax, frozen fish, frozen cakes and pies, bread, some fruits and veggies, canned foods....

Here the clientele is college students, yuppies, and granolas. :shrug:

[puerco-bellies]

5. There is one literally at the end of my street.

You can count on good quality there. They have great veggies, chocolates, organic products, lot's of fair trade products. A good example is Burundi Coffee, 1 lb for less then $5.00. Oh yeah, and for those who imbibe, two buck chuck.

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. When I move, there'll be one three blocks from me

:bounce:

Since I moved to this hellhole 10 years ago, the nearest one has been about 40 miles, though there are three in the region.

[grasswire]

36. hoorayyyyyy!

That's reason enough.

But they don't carry pop tarts.

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. They make up for it

with Dr. Joe's, their decaffeinated version of Dr Pepper. :thumbsup:

[VenusRising]

6. Here's a link to their site...

http://www.traderjoes.com/

[Gormy Cuss]

7. It's a cult. Don't fall for the "it's a grocery store" line. That's how they trick you into joining

They have some weird rituals, like special Hawaiian style shirts, secret ship's bell signals and ritualistic communion offerings of coffee and hot food samples.

http://www.traderjoes.com/

[Kajsa]

9. LOL-Hey Gormy!

I go there to shop when I'm hungry.

Their samples are da bomb!

:D

[Gormy Cuss]

11. I first stumbled into a TJ's in the early 90s when I was on a business trip.

Hooked!

[Kajsa]

12. I hear ya!

:D :hi:

[Kajsa]

8. Trader Joe's is the place to buy cheese, bread

coffee and a number of food items at a much better price
than the local grocery store.

http://www.traderjoes.com/index.html

They are a green store and promote bringing your own
bags by issuing tickets when you do.
The tickets are used for a drawing where you can win
a $50.00 gift card ( Trader Joe's).

It's a fun place to shop, too.

;-)

[LostinVA]

31. Yep -- that's where we buy all of our cheese, milk, and bread

Their fish is of surprisingly high quality for frozen fish.

We only go to the grocery store and Whole Foods for filler stuff we can't get at Trader Joes.

[Kajsa]

32. Hi LostinVA!

I heard that the fish is flash frozen very soon after
it is caught. It is exceptional- I love the Mahi-Mahi.

Personally, I depend on TJs for a lot of our food.

:hi:

[LostinVA]

38. We buy almost all of our food there

We can eat very, very well for very little: fish, chocolate croissants, pork tenderloin (well, Haruka doesn't eat that!), etc. LOVE IT!!!! I mean, ORGANIC bananas for 29 cents a lb.!!!

[Kajsa]

42. I hear ya!

It really stretches the money, and their food is great.

Try their Mango Lemonade- it's soooo good!

:9 :hi:

[LostinVA]

43. Haruka loves their Ginger Lemon juice and their canned coffee drinks

[Kajsa]

55. I've got to try them.

They sounds great!

:9 :D

[KitchenWitch]

58. I love that their dairy is hormone free!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. grocery store. generally catering to poor artists. great quality, great prices

huge organic selection.

love it.

[Quantess]

19. So your local TJs attracts poor artists?

Not the one here. But, we don't have many artists around here.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. i think it was their marketing plan. i remember discussing it in one of my classes

the one in union square attracts a lot of artists, grad students and health conscious folk

[Lisa]

26. well it must be working -- an actor I know moved to LA recently

.... and one of the first things he mentioned about his new place is that it was a block away from a Trader Joe's.

(I've never seen one -- I don't know if we have them up here in Canada yet.)

[meegbear]

15. It's a chain of lesbian hangouts

[Lex]

33. LOL

meegbear! :rofl:

[Quantess]

16. The local Trader Joes here

is not a lesbian magnet.

But there doesn't seem to be a lot of lesbians around here anyway.

[riona]

18. I miss having one here

Haven't found a health food store or grocery store aisle that has such great prices.

[Burma Jones]

21. It's where one gets high quality stuff at the lowest prices

really....

[cabraverde]

22. But are they goldstar lesbians or of the lipstick variety?

Just wondering.

[Lance_Boyle]

23. Does Trader Joe's even carry toasters? n/t

[Lex]

34. those are not mutually exclusive categories

BTW

[Name removed]

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[LostinVA]

39. You had a post not as bad as this deleted the other day

Quit with the lesbian stuff. Not funny, not liberal.

And "goldstar"???? I'm gay, the wife is, and neither of us have heard that lame-o term.

[Hardrada]

40. God, I'm glad I check in on the Lounge every so often.

We have some lesbians as friends and have never heard these terms! Being straight though, I don't know if I should bring them up.

[LostinVA]

41. I'm gay and the wife is -- we've NEVER heard "Goldstar"

[Name removed]

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[Gormy Cuss]

50. You need to stew a bit longer. n/t

[cabraverde]

56. If I ever meet Charles Shaw , I will give him a big kiss

smmmmmmoooooooooooch.

lol.

[Zoigal]

24. It's the store where we do ninety percent of our

grocery shopping. Great prices, good service, good selection of products. And yes,
our lesbian daughter shops there, too. z

[LSK]

25. if you go, can you pick me up some ZenSoy Chocolate Pudding?

:9

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Too progressive for Texas. Figures.

We got Whole Paycheck, as it's called. (Whole Foods)

[yellowdogintexas]

52. sounds more like Central Market than Whole Paycheck. I prefer CM myself

but would enjoy Trader Joes if one were nearby

[Blue-Jay]

29. Hahahaha!

That made me snort!

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. They're magnets for drunken assholes in Hummer-like Toyotas

MONTEREY -- Barbecue sauce was key evidence in the arrest of a 28-year-old Carmel driver who allegedly went for a joyride inside a Trader Joe's supermarket in Monterey Wednesday morning, causing serious damage to the store.

Barbecue sauce stains found in the wheels and door wells of Geoffrey David Langkamp's car when police spotted it at a gas station near the Trader Joe's helped link Langkamp to the vandalism.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/14666982/detail.html

What this story doesn't say is that this TJ's was brand new. Indeed, it hadn't even opened yet.

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BioEb48ayY4

(Excuse the over-dramatic "CRIME WATCH" graphics. It's a Hearst-Argyle station.)

[KitchenWitch]

44. Trader Joe's is teh Awesome!

Grocery store, smallish but have products that other stores do not have.

[Tektonik]

49. we're lucky to live where we do KW

My shopping consists of Henry's, TJ's, and Costco once in a blue moon.

[KitchenWitch]

51. we are lucky!

:D

[Tektonik]

46. It's a chain geared to foodies who don't have lots of cash

It originated in LA, and lately it's been spreading faster than kudzu. The first Trader Joe's, which opened in the sixties in Pasadena, is still open.

[DainBramaged]

48. Aren't the corn dogs popular?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

53. Trader Joe's is utter delight and sorely needed in this hellhole called Texas

Unfortunately, the market seems saturated here with Whole Foods and Central Market. I have emailed many times requesting a store here, but no one hears my cries. SIGH.

[BarenakedLady]

54. It's a really cool grocery store

That is nowhere around here.

:cry:

[harmonicon]

57. best grocery store ever

I did almost all of my shopping there when I lived in California. Now I miss it. I miss a grocery store.

so cheap

so good

*sigh*