Trader Joe’s

Definitely a Trader Joe’s fan!
There are many options when it comes to grocery shopping and the prices are not bad. This location is bigger than the ontario street location in River North area.
Customer service — is good! The employees here are usually helpful and friendly.
Location — this location has a parking lot (can’t say no to free parking!) and it is located just minutes from the CTA (Red line & bus stops)!

I love Trader Joe’s! Although this location is smaller than some of their others, it still has everything I need. Employees are professional and friendly, and prices are great. Highly recommend.

Great store. It’s busy at all times but the shelves are always stocked and the front of store staff are efficient. One tip– avoid the parking lot at all costs. If I have to drive here I’ll pay to park in the street

The fact that I have to visit at least once a week for therapeutic reasons should really say it all. As a long-​time Trader Joe’s junkie, finding out there was located a few blocks from me was like discovering the fountain of youth. The store has a great layout and the aisles are so wide so you never feel like you have to scrape the walls to get around other carts, and it allows you to really browse without being in the way of those people running on a very tight grocery schedule. They offer both organic and regular products at prices that are really hard to compete with, as well as having signature trader joe’s products (cookie butter, seasonal joe joe’s, SEASONAL EVERYTHING, etc.) that keep you coming back for more. I’m also on a very tight student budget so the fact that I can afford fresh produce and have managed to stay away from ramen for as long as I have is amazing. The cashiers are also all so lovely and will most likely love it if you spark up a conversation with them. Definitely won me over and will win you over too.

I love Trader Joe’s. I almost had a heart attack over the 19 cent banana’s, organic banana only 32 cents. I swear if i was 80 years old and i saw those prices they would have to call an ambulance.
There frozen food is great. Organic Quinoa is amazing. I love there juices. They have grass fed meats.
There chicken salad is pretty good, but generally they do not have good prepared food.

I love that, even when traveling, I can find a familiar market to get the kinds of food I love to eat!

This is the most pathetic Trader Joe’s I’ve ever been to. Ever. It’s like they’ve never heard of vegan.

My favorite Trader Joe’s in Chicago. I never have difficulty finding parking in the lot but they do have a lower level if you can’t find any!
The best part about this store is that the organic produce is priced similarly (or even cheaper!) than conventional, so why not?
They always have great employees at the cash register, those guys are so hip, reminds me of home!

We were loyal customers of this store for 4 years. But tonight (8:28pm) we suffered very bad customer service there. While we check out, I had my 10 months old boy pushed the customer in training cart. Then a store guy wear colored shirt came over and helped cashier put our grocery into bags. He shouted to us: do you need bags for Watermelon? I said YES. And then he asked: and Milk? I said YES. (OS: Of course I need bags to carry all my grocery home. Or he wants my 10 months old boy help me to carry them? What kind of questions he asked!!!) And then I told him, I don’t need the peach box, can he put those peaches into a bag? he put them into a plastic bag without hand holds and told me Here you go. I told him, how can I carry the peaches, he said just put into your bag with watermelon. I show a unbelievable face and he said those bags can carry 16 pounds… oh… then okay!!!
May I know what kind of customer service of this??? I really doubt that. Trying to save bags??? Then how about just tell us to bring your own bags to do grocery??? I have never face this kind of situation before for these 4 years. I can’t believe your store have this kind of staff. and I don’t think it’s a good transaction for me to show my 10 months old boy (a first time, training customer).

Always a great go to for healthy options and very reasonably priced. Very friendly staff at Trader Joe’s. Many organic options and a wide variety of healthy snacks and produce!!!

I hate Trader Joe’s.
1. It prioritizes presentation over both quality and quantity, so attracts dumbasses
2. 2 buck chuck — I gag at the smell of this wine
3. «fresh» meat from poland /​czech republic… seriously? they ship this shit unfrozen all the way to here and expect people to like the taste of it?
4. everything tastes cheap and salty
5. food is packaged in weird portions and cuts
Every time I plan a meal and shop at this store I regret not having gone to a nice restaurant to tip the hard working local waitstaff. When I buy food here, I know the premium I pay is a tip to the corporate pigs that sell the same shit in different packaging at ALDI on the south side.

The staff here rocks! Mike, Chi Chi and Mimi are awesome, but everyone is super helpful and always cool.

This is the closest grocery store to me so I love stopping in from time to time to pick up items. I really love some of «different» food items i can find here that i cant get at jewel.
The thing that gives this place the 5^th star is the people working here. They are really great and super nice. Its a great place to do your shopping.

In terms of grocery stores, Trader Joe’s is the bomb, and this location is no exception to the norm.
It’s all private label (mostly), healthy (mostly), and affordable!
TJ’s is my grocer of choice.
They also have flowers and ice cream… fyi guys, just in case you get in trouble with the old lady.
A few of my favorite things include (but are not limited to) chocolate covered espresso beans, kale, apple and strawberry fruit bars, chicken breasts, and mango sorbet. Their cookie butter is flame (Google it).

This is TJ, so of course I have nothing but love for it. The staff are always so helpful and friendly. The products are delicious and intuitively organized, so you can find just about whatever you need very easily. All of the fruit and produce I’ve ever bought here has been fresh and well priced. It’s great having this so close when I need my TJ-​brand fixes (corn salsa, caramelized onion cheddar cheese, truffle brownies, etc.).
There is a small parking lot, but I’d recommend taking public transportation, if you can (which should be easy enough, given the proximity to the Roosevelt stop for the red, green, and orange lines, plus the 146, 12, and 18 bus stop at State and Roosevelt); I do every time I shop here, and it saves me the hassle of having to get into/​out of the lot.

I love TJ’s
I hate that they are always busy.
Mad house on Wabash definitely at this one.
Alas, it is pretty large. TONs of selection of fresh stuff… I just have to rent out the store to go back. Such anxiety even getting into the parking lot. AHHHH! Someone give me a XANAX!

My go-​to Trader Joe’s as it is the closest to where I stay.
Conveniently located half a block from the Roosevelt train station.
There is also a small parking lot at and below level located on Wabash.

The prices here are pretty low for some items. For some other items they cost too much. That is for the organic items. If you’re rich then you can buy those.
They have a free samples counter, which is kind of fun. I wish they had more free samples people just sitting in one of the 4 – 5 aisles. It would be okay that they would cramp the aisles.
Sometimes it feels weird in here when it is quiet and only playing annoying music. I don’t like catchy music playing at the grocery store. I want to buy groceries and not dance.
The free samples counter is nice. They always have some seasonal drink available and you have sample cups, but you don’t know how many you’re supposed to take. I usually just fill my small plastic cup once then through the cup away, but sometimes I feel daring and fill it up 2 or 3 times. I had a friend who was thrown out of a McDonalds for filling his water cup with Hi-​C Fruit Punch.

So, I’m making small talk about Fourth of July plans with the checkout guy, when he looks at my baby carrots. He pauses. «These seem a little dry. Do you want me to get you another bag?» Are you freaking kidding me? You happened to notice? I hadn’t, when I picked them out, but by gum they were, and I would. He made a couple little rings on the bell, and off went another Hawaiian shirt to retrieve them, over by the regular cantaloupes and the Tuscan cantaloupes, where had I asked another Hawaiian shirt whether she had tried the Tuscans. Much sweeter, she likes them better. Well, mahalo, muchacha.
No one has steered me wrong here yet, though they did discontinue my favorite one-​pound bar of dark chocolate – that with Valencia peanuts. Checkout guy had an answer for this too: turns out that there was a disease-​ridden Valencia peanut crop a couple years ago, prices for any remaining good crops went through the roof, and the PR will be irreversible for a while. So, I’m going to have to resort to getting the one-​pound unsullied dark chocolate bar & add salty peanuts to my mouth as I eat. But let me return from my sweet digression and say that I love almost all the products I purchase here, and the service always includes a friendly «aloha,» whether you’re coming or going. And that bell serves another purpose: whenever the lines grow long, the bell is rung and more checkout guys & dolls appear.
So my question is: do these folks get paid so much more than the mopes at Jewel that they transform into extraordinarily helpful & courteous people? Or is that Trader Joe, Ming, Jose, Giotto, Pilgrim Joe, or whomever he is, is just that good at recruiting talent? (If so, he should go over to the last place I worked!) Or maybe it’s because different divisions of Aldi (yes, that Aldi) were owned by two German brothers, and one just happened to be cooler? Perhaps he had the better taste, in music, films, fashion, food, fine wine and perhaps even fine women? (In all fairness, they should have some products named Josephine, Josefina, or Giosetta?) Even better, a pretty, poor girl named 3 buck Charley.

The more I visit Trader Joes, the more I love it. I’m so happy that Trader Joes is located in the South Loop. I just can’t get enough of it. I had been researching where I could find some green tea matcha powder to replicate the green tea matcha latte from Starbucks. I had done an extensive search online (Amazon) and everything cost at least $ 17 or more. I decided to come to Trader Joes to see if they carried any green tea matcha powder.
I was not expecting much since it seemed so expensive online, but Trader Joes came through again for me! They had green tea matcha latte powder for only $ 3.99!!! How wonderful! Prior to this trip I was on the hunt for chia seeds. When I asked a sales associate if they had it available, I was directed straight to it!
This store has a lot of hidden gem products that are healthy and delicious. I especially love that they are constantly coming out with new products and restocking the products that continue to sell well. I was able to find a new product in the Indian section. It was the Vegetable Biyani with vegetable dumplings. I havent tried it yet so I can’t attest to its taste, but at $ 2.49 each, its definitely worth taking a chance on.
They don’t just sell food here but they also sell facial and body products like tea tree oil (in the form of liquid and facial pads) and body butter at affordable prices. Awesome!