He was Only Three Days from Retirement!

Great groceries, fun goodies and some very happy cheerful staff members.
Trader Joe's stores are always a fun experience.

I went to TJ's over the weekend because I was low on crunchy cookie butter. Running out of crunchy cookie butter is a cardinal sin in my house!

Can't stand the place. And that f***king bell. Is it really that hard to go look for something on your own? I prefer the dirty hippies at the whole foods than the pretentious people at TJ'.

I like AJ's better. Trader Joe's is OK but I don't go there on a regular basis.

We go to a place called Earth Fare. They just opened a TJ in an extremely terrible traffic, crowded side of town so we haven't been yet but I do want to go to get some of the cookie butter :D

That's pretty much what it looks like there. If it isn't bloodshed in the parking lot over who gets the single empty space it's bloodshed in aisle 3 over who has the shopping cart right of way.

I love Trader Joe's. Don't like something you bought? Take it back and get your money back, no questions asked. Gee, Frau, I guess your filter is on to see what you want to see.

I've been living or working close to a Trader Joe's since the '70s (when the original Joe owned it) and have loved the shopping experience - good quality house brand products, often-less-than-supermarket prices (still selling bananas for 19 cents EACH) and some unique products (Carolina Style bottled BBQ sauce? only place in Cal. I've seen it) , but one thing EVERY TJ's has seemed to suffer from was inadequate parking (I suspect the poor parking is intentional to keep the store from getting overcrowded). Also, the Trader Joe's radio commercials used to be infamous - live :60s to be read by the DJ containing long elaborate descriptions of highlighted products with bad puns and an occasional tongue-twister added just to torture the announcer. When I was in college radio, trying to get a professional gig, I always included one TJ's reading in my audition tape, just to show I could. (Their "Fearless Flyer" print advertising is still the same way - but without tongue-twisters)

There's one in my area, but I've never had occasion to visit it. My wife goes occasionally when she has coupons for special deals.

Looks like Death finally did ketchup with him…

Word on the other aisles is Mustard and Mayonnaise were having a conversation and he just couldn't ketchup ... poor little fella.