Trader Joe’s

AMAZING!!! This place again is amazing. The store is always clean, everyone is always friendly, and the prices are always cheap — in addition, most of the products are organic or somewhat local, so I have to give it points there too. I’ve gone back at least once a week since I’ve found this location near by my work. Can’t say a bad thing about it! the best!

Trader Joe’s is located in The Village Of Northbrook shopping plaza, next to Saks Off Fifth.
Trader Joe’s is an affordable market with many culinary treats. I love going to Trader Joe’s for all kinds of tasty treats back at home and enjoyed my visit to this location this afternoon with my husband.
When we arrived, we made our way to the back eventually and were treated to a delicious chocolate cake sample. The employee who was preparing the samples said that the store was sampling the chocolate cake in honor of Mother’s Day. She also had pieces of dark chocolate (72% dark) to sample as well. The chocolate cake was so perfect and will have to look out for it when I get back to California so that I can share this one with my mom (since I missed celebrating Mother’s Day with her today).
Anyways, I walked around the store and picked up a few goodies and then headed to the register. All of the registers were full and so I had to wait. The employee who rang me up was pretty friendly.
If I lived in the area, I would be back here.

Always a go to place for meals easy and quick to make. They have the best milk on the market in my opinion as well. Very cheap prices compared to other grocery stores. Have your kids look for the mascot and get a surprise.

Why oh why did I ever come to this Trader Joes? I agree with the previous reviewer Candace about how this location is the «Darth Vader» of all Trader Joes. It truly is.
— horrendous parking lot.
— soccer mom’s toting their three child wide running strollers down the aisles making it difficult to pass
–grannies chatting away with others in center aisles about their baking preferences
–stockroom clerks with crates and food strewn all over the sale floors making it difficult to maneuver between them, the grannies, and the three child wide strollers.
–no food selection
–checkout lines worse than the 10 item or less self checkouts at most other grocery stores.
If I were to ever go buy stuff I would not come to this location. STAY FAR FAR AWAY.

This Trader Joe’s is located in the Nordstrom Rack plaza right off of the Lake Cook exit in Northbrook. I especially love their Dark Chocolate bar with Speculoos cookie spread (I don’t even like dark chocolate, but these are tasty!), and their Cookie Butter (great on white bread, and a nice change from Nutella). On Fridays, they have cheese-​tastings in the sample section, so go check them out! The staff here are super friendly and really cool, and check-​out is a breeze. Parking is plentiful in the shared lot, but watch out for the constant flow of pedestrian crossing!
+Cookie Butter: D
+friendly staff: D

Don’t. Oh please don’t. My hubby and kids are waiting in the car. The lines are really long, and I’m just hungry. Hungry!
I love TJ’s. I’m obsessed with their sicilian olive oil. It’s the only place I’ll get it.
I love their cheap cheese.
And, I just discovered the amazing low salt sweet potato chips.
I was hungry and just wanted to go home. Lady customer in front of me and cashier lady, who must have been new (just a little too happy), I don’t want to know about the new waffle sandwiches with the special ice cream — and I can tell the lady customer didn’t care either. She just wanted to go home with her ice cream and wine. All I wanted was for her to please be *excused* so I could pay and leave! Trust me, I know she wanted to leave too!
Here’s the problem with Trader Joe’s. I come here for the products I love, but I sometimes dread the forced conversations that take place at the checkout counter. I never feel that way in Jewel, and I can chat it up with anyone, but I just feel like some of the cashiers aren’t genuine and don’t pay attention to the long lines.
Regardless, I finally made it home with cheese, olive oil and chips in hand. I ripped that bag open like a hungry crazy lady and went for it.

the prices are great and the food is even better. Definitely my favorite grocery store. Their Non-​GMO selection is a little lacking but i hope it becomes more prominent with their products in time.

I just recently shopped at this location while visiting family in Northbrook. I am from Oklahoma and have heard about Trader Joe’s so I had to go check it out!
I was immediately taken in by the interesting products and reasonable prices!
I wound up buying several things including the famous Cookie Butter, which is amazing! The thin crisp toasted coconut cookies are awesome! Can’t wait until I can get some more of this stuff! Also bought some granola-​coconut cereal, BBQ rub, some green tea-​lemonade, coffee and a few other things.
I do not live near a Trader Joe’s but will go to the nearest one as soon as I can!
Better prices than Whole Foods! Highly recommend this place!

Nice shopping experience here today. I got almost everything I had on my grocery list, so that was a plus. This location seems slightly smaller than the T.J.‘s in Park Ridge, but I could be wrong. I didn’t think their grocery selection was as big, but they had everything I needed. Cashier was very friendly. Store was super crowded for a weekday afternoon… maybe it’s always this way?

In general I like Trader Joe’s but only for some specialty items. There have been times when I have been close by and just a need to pick up a few mundane items for dinner or baking. Most of those times I leave empty handed.
But those specialty items will blow your mind. Recently we went to a chocolate and wine tasting. We tasted ten different chocolates blindly. At the end when the names were revealed the chocolate that scored the highest was none other than the Trader Joe’s brand of 72% cacao dark chocolate! (It’s from Belgium.) Another crowd favorite was the Valrhona Nior Amer 71% cacao, also sold at Trader Joe’s.
Of course while we at Joe’s we couldn’t help but buy some other goodies to try. Along with our chocolate bar purchases we bought the dark chocolate covered almonds and the chocolate covered sea salt butterscotch caramels. The almonds were only okay but we enjoyed the caramels.

Rude staff! I’ve NEVER had this problem at any Trader Joe’s, but I spoke to a man who worked there, whose badge simply said «Tai Chi» who was SO arrogant I’ve decided not to return. What a shame.

My rules of thumb on Trader Joe’s hold true at this one as with others… it’s hard to find a better selection of consistently really decent cheeses at a better price, so it’s the obvious pick if you want to put together a nice quality party tray and not go broke doing so. It’s a go-​to place for affordable and tasty specialty items, if not comprehensive enough for basic staple shopping. It has cheap booze (though, skip the Charles Shaw, and pony up a few more bucks for a lot better wine, and it’s an even better deal). And it’s so darned cute.
But, I tend to not review chains for their products, because they’re pretty standardized across the board. This review is based on the service in this particular store, which is always really friendly, even when the store is super busy. The sample guys and girls, the checkers, the employees roaming are all really, really pleasant, and that makes all the difference in the world. The store’s set up well, with aisles wide enough to accommodate the volume of shoppers they get (the store in my previous locale failed on this reward, and constant traffic jams in the aisle made it a harrowing experience… much better in this store. I haven not run into the obnoxious clientele that seem to make up most of the complaints in other reviews, but then again, I also tend to shop here an hour before close on weeknights, which is apparently a low soccer mom saturation time. Call it good judgment.

I am trying out the trader joe cold brew coffee concentrate this week, bear in mind that I enjoy a good café americano iced, and was hoping this would be close to the mark. I think this gal hit it on the head with this line — «The iced coffee doesn’t have that depth of taste that you can only get from espresso because it’s cold brewed»
Having said that, it’s not bad and I do enjoy 1) making it by the cup 2) not wasting any coffee in the pot

Great store!
I don’t shop here for everything, but this is an outstanding store with many surprises. The specialty items are great. Things like the frozen crescents, snack items, and wines. I’m not a fan of the «Two Buck Chuck.» There are a lot of other inexpensive vino’s to choose from, many at or below one of those member club prices.
The people are great here. They are always ready to help. Cashing out is a breeze.
All and all, a great experience.

We came here because we had heard they had a good selection of kosher for passover wines, and the rumors were true! More than your standard Manischewitz and Mogen David, they have about 6 different varieties including a moscat, a black moscat, a cabernet, a couple of chardonnays, and another red table wine. The kosher for passover wines are marked with a bright blue «kosher!» sign, but we didn’t see them immediately and had to ask for guidance and suggestions from a super friendly, super helpful, TJ’s employee. Wish I had gotten his name to thank him for being so great!
And to hold him accountable for the quality of these wines, TBD on Monday!

I LOVE Trader Joe’s. I LOVE this Trader Joe’s. I LOVE the people that work at this Trader Joe’s.
I do not however, LOVE the people who frequent this Trader Joe’s.
The food is presented well, the store is clean, the employees happy. The clientele, however, is pushy and rude. Not just once, many times. My daughter walked out with eyes wide open last time we went. Just brace yourself, use a cart, and hold your ground… and then be SUPER nice to the person checking you out as they have to deal with the clientele every day! Bless them!

No matter what they say about you, I still love you. You’re not the prettiest Trader Joe’s. Nor are you the biggest or best one out there. But you are the closest, and convenience counts for something, right?
There are two reasons that this place is not a 4 – 5 star establishment like other Trader Joe’s. The first is the lines. If you have lines 5 – 6 deep and only two registers open, do me a favor and open additional registers. Trust me as soon as we all pay and leave you can go back to doing whatever you do when we’re not buying. If you need to hire an extra weekend worker, there as to be at least one kid in all of Northbrook, Highland Park, or Deerfield that wants some money.
The second reason is, that this store just feels like it carries less goods compared to the one on Waukegan and Lake in Glenview. Maybe it is because nothing will compare to your first TJ?
Anyway, I will still go here as it is close.

I love Trader Joe’s, in fact, I am going to say that I am a little addicted to Trader Joe’s! Okay who am I kidding… I have a Trader Joe’s problem. When I am on the road or traveling I always go and stock up at Trader Joe’s. Once in Brooklyn I fully stocked my hotel mini fridge full of TJ products! But that is another story!!!
I love this location because it is located directly off of I94 and I usually find myself here twice on the weekends. I know that going to Trader Joe’s on the weekend is not a great idea but I need my Trader Joe products. The parking lot is huge but I do find many angry drivers in here. I am a little scared in the parking lot here because there is definitely «Parking Lot Rage» going on. I should probably go and add that word into Wikipedia because I think I might have invented it.
The staff located in here is always willing to help and they are super nice. Recently I needed some of that whole wheat pasta and the staff was so helpful that they went in the back to get me a few packages. I am totally addicted to there whole wheat pasta. I hope I am not kicked out of the «Family» for eating this stuff. It is so hearty and it tastes so good.
I really love the meats here too and the prices are very reasonable. I asked the manager here about pink slime and was happy to find out that TJ’s does not use the stuff. If you do not know what Pink Slime is I will let you go and look it up yourself but it is not good. I love there lean ground beef… it is ⁹⁴⁄₆ and is so low in calories, fat and sodium. I make tacos and killer burgers with the ground beef plus I know what I am putting into my body. I also love there chicken legs too… I am always marinating those things before I throw them on the grill. My little one loves chicken legs. She is always saying. «I am eating them like an adult!» I use to cut the meat off for her but she is a big girl now.
After loading your cart full of food it is now time to stock up on the wine. Trader Joe has some amazing prices on wine. TJ’s has taught me that it doesn’t have to cost $ 24 for a nice bottle of wine. I have no idea how they keep the prices so low for great tasting wine. Oh I almost forgot you need to pick up some cheese to go with your wine. I found a chunk of the Rosemary Asiago Cheese here and my wife is so addicted to it and she does not even like cheese. Oh boy I think our whole family has to go to Trader Joe’s Rehab!!!

This Trader Joe’s is the Darth Vader to every other Trader Joe’s Luke Skywalker.
It didn’t have to be evil, but because of a few unfortunate circumstances and the hoity clientele, this TJ’s has shown me there is a dark side to Hawaiian shirts.
Inside the store is meh, IMO. I hate that there were so many fewer aisles and products than at my regular rounds of Trader Joe’s. I hate that no matter how double-​wide they make the aisles, the entitled soccer moms of the area will still try to run your lonesome ass down in the frozen foods section. Be prepared to fight for that tub of Ginger Cats Cookies (for people).
I detest that the lines, even though every register is open, extend into the aisles to the point that you have to double-​back through every aisles because everything is so blocked that you can’t exit. And I really hate that some wackadoo, loudmouth mom got tired of waiting in her line, so she walked out, over two lanes and right in front of me in my lane like I didn’t exist, then proceeded to wave her cart-​with-​a-​million-​things toting daughter over to join in the cutting off. Uhm, No. I have a jug of mango green tea and s’mores ice cream bars in my reusable shopping bag and you WILL NOT be f*cking with my spot in line.
I know it’s not the fault of the store but the people who were shopping at this location on my particular visit were out of they damn minds. No one was bothered that this clone-​drone 50-​something wifey took free reign of the standard TJ check out system at 3 different registers, and one customer even encouraged and commended her for throwing a mini tizzy while in line behind a very old man who was taking a while to check out. Earth to Sunday Glenview TJ’s shoppers: There are other people on Earth besides you; pack up your Death Star sized SUV and go back to whatever evil galaxy you’re from if you can’t grasp that concept.
Again, I know it’s not the good Trader’s fault, but the demon shoppers, insane parking lot and holier than though attitude of every Tom, Dick and Harry buying 18 cent bananas and Joe Joe’s make this store just not worth it for me.

Trader Joe’s is a super awesome grocery store that carries great food (lots of organic products) are a great price. The staff is super upbeat, friendly and very helpful. The wine selection at this location is awesome as well. You can find great wines for under 10 bucks. I love their frozen foods section and have found many delicious meals there.
Oh, and during the holidays — get the Peppermint Joe-​Joes — they are basically Oreo like cookies filled with peppermint with real peppermint candy pieces. Super yummy.
Great location, good parking and plenty of other cool stores to shop at while you are in the area.