trader joes

true story.

A local resturant we will call call Zhocolate Javen here in town makes the Trader Joes brand frozen pork chile verde. Awesome right? They make it, ship it to Monrovia for distrubution, then it gets distrubuted to the warehouses (ours is in Phoenix). It then gets put in our truck and unloaded 5 days later.

The yuppies here eat it up, and it sells out quicky, so sometimes we were out of stock. "when are you getting it in?" they'd whine. Due to our strick confidentiallity bullsqua we couldn't tell them to go down the road 3 block and make a right. So they'd wait 5-7 days for it to come in agian.

bizoptly. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Find a co-op. Join it.

And all night!

It's three bucks here!

They've always sold beer AND wine here in grocery stores. Sure you're not confusing us with Utah or someplace?

ahahahahahha.....sorry...but as soon as I read that...this scene popped into my head instantly! It's a few minutes long...but the payoff at the end makes it worth it.

Here in LA, the home of TJs, there's pretty much at least one in every neighborhood.

However, my mother lives in Detroit, where TJs have started opening only recently. She sends me a steady stream of food from her local TJ, even though I can go down the street and get the same food.

Isn't that cute? I love my mom.

Note to self - mentioning one's mother on SG kills threadz.

thats a shame. they sell this white label russian bottle of vodka for 10 bucks. went amazing with cans of hansen's energy juice. was cool waaaay before redbull and vodka.


p.s. - green tea mochi beats everything.

They can only sell beer here, just like any other grocery. Wine, >3.2 beer, and other higher proof spirits are only legally able to be sold in liquor stores.

Or as the City Pages puts it -

Mmmm, liquor-fueled Democratic Farmer-Labor parties...

I love TJ's processed foods.

The Framingham store carries wine, but I understand that Mass. law includes some sort of exceptions regarding beer/wine sale regulations. The inability to sell their wine in RI is the reason I've heard cited by TJ's as to why they're not planning to open a store here.

You go to hell.....with your awesome grocery store and its lemony vodka.!

Someone's drunk!

At this point I can barely count my pants.

I need, no must have this. It is my new mission in life.

i had never heard of trader joes till I moved to WA and now live within walking distance of one. I have now been educated in it's awesomeness, alcohol and all.

After I randomly managed to get my hand on a circular and perusing their wares, I've been wanting a TJ to open near me for some time. The three closest to me are all like @least 45 minutes each way.

I need a car. And a license. Badly.

-TM

It's zero.

Still.

Please get a job.

I love Trader Joe's but the nearest one is pretty far away. Me and my boyfriend do hit it up anytime we go to Chicago though. Cheap brie and the best tomato soup I've ever had.

I fucking hate my local co-op. It's always full of overpriced food and self-righteous assholes.

That's one thing I love about Minneapolis - awesome co-ops, everywhere. Not the pretentious kind, either. Always a plus.

They do that well, don't they. I never knew I had it so good growing up.

There are no real co-ops in Seattle.