Comments on: People who don’t bag their own groceries at Trader Joe’s

By: Sandy Marshall

Sandy Marshall — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:25:20 +0000

Love it. Whatever with CompUSA. I like their huge selection, but not the fact that you basically have to get buzzed into the store. It’s like they have some jewelers in the back or something. CompUSA has some other side business going on inside, I just haven’t figured out what it is yet. Oh yeah, now I remember, it’s selling $20 monitors on display inside some cage.

By: Fred Mowery

Fred Mowery — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:27:13 +0000

Sandy, we used to go to that one all the time.

CompUSA went out of business in Missouri and the geeks stripped them to the walls. I was in the one near where I work in Sunset Hills and we were fighting over wireless mice. Awesome.

By: Sandy Marshall

Sandy Marshall — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:34:46 +0000

CompUSA. Call. Trader Joe’s has cornered the market on making people feel like they live in Georgetown in 1979 and are buying cheese to cut on their wood cheese blocks. It’s like a different world. The Chicago one we go to all the time is next to a CB-2, which in its own right offers way too much magenta and orange.

By: Connor

Connor — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:30:38 +0000

Adam took me to a TJ’s in LA and it was the only one I’ve seen that looks nice. Plus, it had a burrito I can’t find at any other outlet. All the TJ’s here feel like a CompUSA went out of business and someone came in to restock the shelves with trail mix and fake soda (FAKE!).

By: Sandy Marshall

Sandy Marshall — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:36:41 +0000

Sure, sure — plus Trader Joe’s is not, contrary to popular belief, kid friendly. If I had kids, they’d be rolling in those shopping cart cars. I wish I could be a kid at Dominick’s!

By: phil r

phil r — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:12:16 +0000

Here’s the thing about groceries…

I got two young boys, 4 and 6, in my family. I need bread. I need milk. I need oreos.

I don’t need lime-grilled chicken breast tenders. I don’t need Tuscan Four-cheese chips.

Dominicks offers me everything I need as well as an aisle wide enough that my boys can play hide-and-seek while I shop.

By: Kiki

Kiki — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:36:22 +0000

Yeah, and after they’re done bagging their own groceries I’m sure they’re going to walk their cart back to the cart corral so I don’t have to move it when I pull my car out. Lazy turds.

And do not, I repeat DO NOT buy the Trader Joe’s vanilla gelato. That is, unless you like your ice cream to taste like it came directly from a giant can of lard frosting from Costco.

By: Connor

Connor — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:48:18 +0000

isn’t there still a wonder bread store down off of Lincoln south of the Athenaeum somewhere?

By: Sandy Marshall

Sandy Marshall — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:32:12 +0000

What ever happened to the old school bread stores in small-town Kansas? The Wonder Bread stores?

By: Fred Mowery

Fred Mowery — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:08:24 +0000

I think Diebergs in St. Louis is pretty bad, too. What’s with all of the tv monitors? They’re so plugged in…I just want to buy some BooBerry and milk.