Trader Joe’s

Such an awesome grocery store to have locally vs the chaotic mess that is Wegmans. I love the atmosphere in here and that most of the items are found to be organic and non-​GMO. Also, you can’t beat the prices! Organic chicken breast here will only run a little under $ 10. It’s usually quiet during the week during the day. The staff is very helpful and friendly, and I love the free samples they give out! Def will be returning for my weekly shopping trips.

This TJ’s is always staffed with friendly associates and while it can be busy, you are never rushed, even if you need help finding something that is out of stock. Parking in the center is a problem, but I just park further out, away from the fast casual restaurant and the wine megastore (where I never shop because there are far better sources for wine) and don’t have a problem. I’ve never encountered a rude person at this location, and when I have needed help at the service desk, I have been asked by other associates and the general manager who just happen to be passing if I am in need of assistance. It’s the best Trader Joe’s in the region, though I just wish they were open an extra hour in the evening as some of the other TJ’s in the region, but one cannot have everything.

Love Trader Joes.
They offer quality ingredients without hurting your wallet too much. The store is always neat and organized. Employees are friendly and helpful. They pack your groceries neatly and in a timely fashion. This location is slightly smaller than the Centerville one, but still has everything I need.

Always super, polite service. All the staff I have encountered and had a conversatino with are super friendly and very upbeat.
I live pretty close to this one, so I can easily drop in for a few items mid-​week, or for a lunch time snack if I forgot to pack enough food for the day.
What can I say, great prices, fresh produce, unique and new items, healthy options.

I can’t began to explain how amazing this place is. The customer service is truly unmatched. You can tell these individuals believe in customer satisfaction. I don’t think I have ever been to a grocery store that allowed you to bring back wine (opened, used) because you don’t like it. I think that is the straw that broke the camels back, forget shoppers, Safeway, and giant. I will do my best to find whatever I need at trader joes. This particular location is the best!!! Every one I have come into contact with at this location has truly been nice, genuine and approachable. «If you having grocery problems I feel bad for you son, I have two million problems but trader joes at one»…lol I love this place.

Trader Joe’s is great but can’t always substitute for a full supermarket. For someone with a busy life/​work schedule, they have tons of healthy options that you can simply heat up in the microwave. They also have semi-​prepared food like Balsamic rosemary chicken with is excellent on a salad, with some sides, or even on it’s own. However, if you want a specific fresh herb or vegetable, you won’t always find it here. And if you’re like me and crave desserts, they have a huge variety and almost definitely the best supermarket desserts around. I could list all my favorites but I’ll keep this review short and sweet.
This specific Trader Joe’s has an extremely friendly and helpful staff. I’ve never felt a bad vibe from a single employee there. The employees also work hard and fast. Great crew. However, avoid shopping there on the weekends at all costs. It’s SO busy, the lines for the registers stretch all the way to the back of the store. Absolutely nutz.
Trader Joe’s is a privately held company but if they go public, I’ll be first in line to buy stock. Guaranteed winner.

I must say, I thought the Bailey’s Crossroads parking situation was bad and I’m not a fan of the Old Town garage either, however, this parking situation is absolutely abysmal compared to both of those. And my visit was at 1:00pm on a Thursday on my lunch break, so I can only imagine how crazy this place gets after work and, particularly, on the weekends. I was only able to buy non-​perishable items as I was heading back to work afterwards, so while I cannot comment fully on the produce situation, I can say it visually better than Bailey’s (which is the absolute worst IMHO). The store is physically a smaller location but it was still well-​stocked and I easily found all of the items on my list (plus at least 6 things that I «didn’t know I needed» as always). The lines were long for the day and time of my visit but moved quickly and, as always, the staff was super friendly and engaging. While I won’t be stopping here regularly due to the location, as this was a pure TJ to the rescue emergency, I wouldn’t be opposed to visiting this location again if I needed to grab something while on lunch.

The staff here is the friendliest and has the most helpful staff I’ve ever encountered. I’ve been to Trader Joe’s from coast to coast and this location wins hands down.
No matter how busy they are, the staff always drop what they’re doing if I need a pallet of White Cheddar Puffs. Seriously, the puffs are that good.
A+

My favorite store to buy organic food. Everything is fresh. Price is responsible. Stuff are always friendly. I love to buy french baguette from Trader Joe’s.

My favorite place to find special ingredients for cooking healthier meals! I really wish that Trader Joe’s was bigger, with more products though. I try shopping when most 9 – 5 folks have work and I avoid weekends because the size of the store can get very cramped. I admit that some of their produce and meat selections can be slightly more expensive than other local, largely-​franchised grocery stores, but most of their products are organic (hence the small size of the fruits and vegetables), and fresh.
I have yet to try their wine and beer selections, but I have heard that they are very affordable and good in quality! Also, every time I come here, the staff is SUPER friendly and charismatic, and they seem to always be in a good mood. Probably one of the best customer service I’ve ever encountered at any business!

Great food, great prices, great staff, great atmosphere, and an amazing company to work for. I may be a little biased… But hey I love my job.
P. s. One of my favorite things about this place is every sign in the store is hand made by a team of artists. So no Trader Joes have the same signs or art work, all original.

I love Trader Joe’s. Its relatively inexpensive and it doesn’t come off that way when you look at the store from the outside. The store is always clean and the employees keep it that way. Employees are so helpful. They go out of their way to ask you if need anything and are extremely approachable if you have any questions for them.
I wish this was the only store I had to visit each week, unfortunately and probably the only complaint is that there are items they don’t sell and I have to go elsewhere. But I do the bulk of my shopping weekly at Trader Joe’s. Certainly all of my fruits and vegetables are purchased there.
The store gets very crowded at times, but the cashiers and baggers are super efficient and get the lines cleared out quickly. Love, love, love this store!

Trader Joe’s is the only shop to have cheap, healthy, and delicious food. Usually you only get 2 of the 3. The staff is incredibly cheerful and friendly, and there’s always free samples. The frozen food selection is surprisingly good, and plenty of almond, soy, and coconut substitutes that are hard to find anywhere else.
Only real complaint is the parking lot is packed, and it is a smaller branch comparative to others. But they’re still able to pack in a large variety of foods, plants, beer, and wine.

You’d get 5 stars if I could make a left out of your shopping center. But the light doesn’t coordinate with the light at Picket and Little River Tpk. So it turns green and you can’t move, it is just gridlock. You can only make a right on Picket to go towards Vienna.
Please, Trader Joes please complain to your landlord and the county. I love your store but it is a pain in the buttocks to leave. Kinda like the Hotel California, you can get in whenever you want, but can never leave.

This was my first visit to this location
I went in looking for a few specific things, had no problem finding what I needed plus a little bit more.
I determined that I also needed two cases of wine, The guy stocking the wine was more than happy to help.

This is my local TJ’s and it’s pretty much okay but I do think it’s smaller than other TJ’s and therefore has a lesser selection than the other stores.
Like all TJ’s, the staff are of the earthy, granola variety and pretentiously nice. One thing I like about TJ’s is that I always feel like the prices are reasonable — the opposite of how I feel when I leave Whole Foods.
The wine selection is pretty lame. I am a snob when it comes to wine and with Total Wine in the same shopping center, I’d be hard-​pressed to get wine from here, but I have on occasion when I’m too lazy to trek down to TW. Yes, the wine is cheap — from $ 3 — $ 20 a bottle, but MD ²⁰⁄₂₀ from 7-​Eleven would probably get me the same results and perhaps less of a headache the next day…
I love that they have huge bunches of brussel sprouts — fun.
The cheese selection is not that special despite a sign there that says they scour the world for the best cheese…
There are always hoards of people groping for a free sample from the coffee sampling /​tidbit counter — slightly annoying.
Some decent prepared items in the frozen section. Hit or miss.

This store is always clean and brightly lit, crazy busy, but well stocked. It’s not my favorite TJ’s because of how insane it can be on the weekends, but I feel like because they do more volume than some of the others in the area the produce is often fresher. The employees here are very nice, pricing is good (as always) and they have all the things you have come to expect from a TJ’s.
The parking in the shopping center can be somewhat of a nightmare, especially now that the buildings are getting a face-​lift and there is construction everywhere.
But if you bring your patience along with your wallet, you will be just fine.

I’ve fallen out of love with this location. On my most recent visit, the store looked chaotic, though it had only opened about two hours earlier. Most grocery stores are still spic and span in the morning hours.
Almond milk that I purchased looked like it had already been sampled by someone else (popped seal and noticeably less liquid inside). I’m sad that I didn’t check before leaving.
I asked one staff to get me soy chorizo from the very top shelf because I couldn’t reach it and she half-​heartedly looked and told me there wasn’t any. I saw it! I just couldn’t reach it being vertically challenged. At the urging of her more diligent colleague, she reached a little further back and, duh, it was right there. Thanks for your help!
Nothing looked as fresh (produce or prepared meals), rather pathetic on my recent visit. The nonrefridgerated items seemed okay, but I of course learned that my almond milk was no good.
The cashiers are still good about keeping the lines moving, and TJ still has the quickest checkout lines I’ve experienced at any chain. However other customer experiences leave much to be desired.
A few visits back, I contacted the customer service desk, per a friend’s recommendation, to see if they could order flowers for me for my wedding. One kindly guy told me that he could that, but it would be hard to guarantee the colors. Fair enough. Then another guy overheard and told me that they were first and foremost a grocery store, not a flower shop. «Why’d you have to be so rude»? Giant isn’t a floral boutique either, but they’ll order flowers for you if you want without giving you grief. Not happy with this gentleman’s unwillingness to help.
Perhaps the management has changed, and the new store supervisors aren’t as interested in quality and preserving customer loyalty… They’ve lost one fan. I won’t be back to this location, unless I have no other choice.

I love Trader Joe’s. It’s my favorite grocery store out of all the grocery giants. I like them for their produce, prepared and frozen foods, gourmet and organic foods, and even their household items like soap and fresh flowers. They’re unique because most of the brands they carry are their own or private labels and you’ll find interesting items that you may not find at a Giant or Safeway. Not to mention, most of their products are environmentally friendly and a plus, waaaay cheaper than say, Whole Foods. I also like that their products are just enough for a small family like mine, as opposed to going to Costco for bulk groceries and wasting 70% of the groceries.
For groceries, I like picking up prepared foods like salads and spicy Thai style pasta. They have local zucchini and squash every now and then (also for only 79 cents each). I like picking up nonfat Greek yogurt or low-​fat strawberry smoothies and organic milk. From the frozen section, I’ll pick up some of their frozen meals such as baked ziti and pesto tortellini bowls. I also get my spaghetti and marinara sauce from TJ’s. Yesterday, I picked up some mocha cappuccino and matcha green latte mixes. Even for some of the meats, I’ll pick up here since they tend to be smaller and cheaper. And who can resist picking up a bottle or two of Two Buck Chuck (even though it sells for more than $ 2 now, but still, it’s only $ 3 – 4 nowadays)? The unfortunate issue with their products is that I’ll find something I really like and then they’ll rotate out with new items and stop carrying the aforementioned liked item (e.g. for me, certain macarons).
The folks at TJ’s are always really nice and friendly. I’ve heard their benefits are great for both full and part-​time employees, so it’s nice to have that kind of culture because it definitely reflects well in their professional demeanors and the way they treat customers. The downside of this TJ’s is the parking situation. It’s located in a small strip mall with a Total Wines and More, a few other restaurants, a pet store, CVS, Hair Cuttery, and a record store. I usually go weeknights so it’s not as bad, but on weekends especially Sundays, it can be jam packed. I’d recommend coming on weekdays or weeknights to alleviate some of that traffic pain. Otherwise, it’s still my go-​to TJ’s.

I love Trader Jo’s but really not a fan of this location. The parking lot is a nightmare since it is located within a strip mall with busy shops. I will say that afterwards you will need a quick stop at Total Wine and More to feel better about all the people, traffic, and congestion.
I also wish this location could expand their store size. It seems it is more crammed then other locations. Maybe I am just spoiled with the M st location in DC or Reston.