Trader Joe's

I love this store. They have a great variety of food products that are prepared and ready for the oven. It's easy to prepare a great meal with little time and effort involved. I have never been disappointed with anything I bought from this store. They also have a good choice of wines with prices that are easy on the pocketbook. I highly recommend this store.

I always stock up on their Canadian Bread (very tasty) and pizza dough. My dogs love the pressed raw hide dog bones. It keeps them busy for an hour!

Easily the best of the specialty grocers in the Triangle (and outside it also

in most locations where they have venues). They eat Whole Paychecks

lunch, and in virtually all venues has better personnel than those in this

niche trade. Perhaps it is because many employees at Weaver Street, and

former Well Spring locations wished for more out of life than the got in

terms of income. Regardless, despite T Joes dominance of this trade they

are not the equal of Kroger, in terms of diversity of product lines or

ability to compete in say - Kroger's dairy product prices or selection.

Similarly they are not in the same league in meat or seafood of

organic or other types. Generally, Whole Paycheck and Weaver Street

do a better job in this area than T Joes as well, but this reflects relative profitability

of these areas , and T Joe's decision to forego labor overhead vs. profit

margin.

Nevertheless, Trader Joe's have best selection of artisan breadstuff's sold

often for less than half of theprice of equivalent goods at competitors. Similarly in

fresh flowers, processed cereals, cookies, nuts , dried fruits, frozen

desserts and prepared dishes, snack foods, produce, and beverages carried;

they are low cost purveyor. Keeping in mind the limited range of commestibles,

as well as other limits within those areas (e.g. no Izze or Blenheim

soda products) they are the best.



If possible ,avoid shopping on Saturday's, as they are like Tuesday

morning at Kroger due to volume of customers. Analogously, the

number of customers makes it impossible to restock shelf outages

detracting from the shopping experience.

They are not 24 hour venue, running 9A to 9P. So while, in most cases

people can shop after work, they can't get items on way there.

This store is reached off US 1 and US 64 by exiting at Cary Pkwy

exit south of town(next exit south of Crossroads Shopping Center) and

proceeding west about a half mile to store

on north side of road just before Kildaire Farms Rd. junction.

Other access requires making ones way through Cary, and

using online map programs is recommended if you do not

have that community mastered.

I hope you find this helpful.

pjamesb

Great wine selection at low prices! Also, tons of unique food items, many of which are organic, at great prices. My only complaint is that there isn't one closer to where I live.

Trader Joes is a must for all wine drinkers out there. Great selection and the best is the 2 buck chuck! Also have organic foods, fresh flowers and lot of different items you don't see around here. Just wish it was closer to my house.