Trader Joe’s

What can I say, a grocery store who cut out the middle man and stands be hind quality fresh ingredients. Huge fan!!! Also, by only carrying their brand they have undercut the pricing of local stores.
I always come here for these basic reasons: employees are helpful and warm, store is clean and stocked full of organic options/​vegan options/​kosher options and the bathrooms are clean and easy to find!!!
The parking can get extremely dicey during peaked times, but I am still keeping it 5 STARS!!!
PS Did I mention they have free samples everyday

Best Value/​Must Buys:
1) bag of Apples
2) bags of almonds n walnuts cheapest
3) salad mixes/​lettuce
4) cold pressed canola oil
5) omega 3 eggs
6) chocolate @ the register!!!
The frozen stuff aren’t that healthy, although still cheaper. Go during off hrs if you want to find parking. Free coffee tasting: D

Love traders joe ! It is my favorite supermarket — it is more than a super market, it is like a market boutique with different products that are impossible to find in a regular supermarket —

Maybe I’m spoiled by the Trader Joe’s in my neighborhood which is far better but this one I don’t like all that much. Besides small parking lot crowded and can’t find a spot the coffee samples tastes disgusting when I had the same brand coffee simple at the store near me and it is completely different. I know I’m just picking but it’s the little things like that what makes a difference. I also noticed the eggs shrunk at least 25% if you look inside the cartons.

this is by far my favorite «trader’s». great selection, helpful staff, clean store. i’m here on a regular basis — as we go through their food so quickly! our faves, based on price and taste: their seltzers, yogurts, cereals, Indian food, frozen organic vegetables, nuts, kid snacks that are not disgusting — i.e. fake colors, bizarro ingredients, etc.
highly recommend!

I really love trader Joe’s because not only is the décor and atmosphere inviting and fun, but they have great vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and lactose free options. For a period of time I became lactose intolerant but if course that didn’t stop me from craving ice cream. They have soy bean vanilla ice cream that tastes like the real thing! Some things I like:
Cat Cookies (they’re for people!)
Chickenless Mandarin Orange morsels
Puffins peanut butter cereal
Hummus
Sweet potato chips
Apple cider
Frozen ravioli (cheese or butternut squash)

staff is very nice. they talk to you while they are ringing you up instead of being quiet like most places. very cool stuff to buy and i like the premade salads.

This place is great. Every time I go here I see the employees having a good time and smiles on their faces. I went today and was asked several times if I needed anything. The parking lot was a bit tight but other than that, good experience.

Products are really good. They even recommend to try new things and if you dislike it you may return it without a problem. Staff is super nice and helpful. Very rare do I wait on a line for too long. When they see people waiting they never hesitate to open up a new register. Prices are very very reasonable.
Only complaint… the parking lot… ugh!

The best Trader Joe’s ever. It may be smaller than what us city folk are used to but I’ll take light trafficked aisles and short register lines anytime!!!

Just about everything I need and more. Can’t go there for milk and just leave with milk, you come out with a $ 30 bill and lots of good stuff. Los of did supermarkets don’t have, full ready made salads to take for lunch, or wraps, snacks, organics, not crappy frozen foods but good stuff. Coffees and many kinds of beer. This is NY, you can’t get wine in such stores. The employees are friendly. Sometimes the music being played is worth coming for, dance in the aisles to the music.

There’s a wide selection of healthy products — all at reasonable prices.
The staff are all super friendly and they go out of their way to be helpful. How does TJs find and train such fantastic employees?!?
Consistently impressive. This is about as good as it gets for a grocery store. We also go to the TJs in Merrick often which also gets 5 stars.

Trader Joe’s as a chain is pretty great. They have fun food from around the world and it is a great stop for organic and natural foods. Even better, for people without a kitchen for whatever reason, they have really yummy frozen and refrigerated meal options. Their meatloaf is really delicious (pro-​tip: add a little sriracha to the yummy tomato sauce for a delicious kick!) and is a weekly staple for us. It’s a refrigerated option so no worries if you live out of a mini fridge! Another must-​grab is a box of the Smashing S’mores. Bite-​sized marshmallows on top of a bitty graham cracker and the whole thing coated in milk chocolate? Yes, please! You’ll find that beauty on the shelves above the frozen foods.
So why the three stars? As other reviewers have mentioned, it’s a complete nightmare in the parking lot — both finding a space and getting out when you’re done. I also haven’t been impressed by some of the miserable people shopping there (for example the woman today who felt the appropriate way to get me out of her way was to slam into my cart repeatedly until I moved without a single word). At the same time, there are many lovely people as well but it is a very small location so it’s difficult regardless. I try to stick to off peak shopping hours, which helps the situation immensely!
The TJ’s up by the Source Mall is new, and enormous compared to pretty much every other one I have been to, but their aisles don’t have my town on them so I clearly have to stick to my neighborhood Oceanside one, horrendous parking lot and all! :)

This is my local Trader Joe’s and I give it 5 solid stars.
Super clean and well stocked … always!
I think this is one of the smaller Trader Joe’s on the island, That is also why it is so nice to shop here.
I only eat organic fresh food, Trader Joe’s is always a stop I make when I shop.
The cashier’s are always wonderful here.

They have better prices than a large supermarket, I was shocked. They have a great variety of healthy foods, fresh vegetables and prepared foods like their amazing hummus! Friendly and helpful staff, super low prices.
I stock up on their black bean quinoa tortilla chips, all I can say is WOW. They taste amazing. Also their puffed corn sour cream and onion… they carry some great snacks!!!
I like to buy their raw sunflower seeds, for a huge bag they are only 1.99! Almond milk unsweetened only 2.99! Flax seed cereal only 2.99. You end up paying 5.99 for cereal at another store. Their avocados come 4 in a bag for 2 dollars and change, it’s really nice to have the option to buy healthy food and not spend a fortune. I will be a customer for a long time!

Yeh, good old trader joes. Good gluten free bread and roll options.
Snack: gluten free roll, margarine, salmon patty, sauce. Mmm yeh
Small spot so checkout wait time not over 20 minutes.

Stopped in after repairs from Super Storm Sandy. Was great as ever. Clean, Clean and lots of options.
Was in a rush and was put through the check out quickly.
Just read the review below, will be stopping this evening for the Cinnamon Butter.
Got it!
Just tried cookie butter, mmmm delic!
Alwasy enjoy Trader Joe’s!

So what exactly is so great about Trader Joe’s? Why does every one in my Weight Watcher meeting shop here, exclusively? Why is this the food store of the 21^st Century? I can shed a little bit of light on that…
There are SO many healthy food options in this store. For the organic shopper, I am sure this place is orgasmic.
This last trip to Trader Joe’s, was for one particular item that I did read about in their flyer. Pumpkin Butter. I love anything pumpkin and when I read it tasted like pumpkin pie, without the calories, I NEEDED to try it. Well, this stuff is amazing. I spread it on toast and it was rich, cinnamon-​y pumpkin pie, without all the calories.
Anyway, back to the basics…
This place is small for a food store so the shopping carts can be an annoyance in the aisles, so grab a hand basket. Obviously, I can’t rate the entire TJ chain, based on this store but I do look forward to shopping in a less claustrophobic store.
For a TJ «pleb» like me, at times, I felt like I didn’t belong here. There were many rude people pushing their way through the cramped aisles as if they were special or something. Then, there were many not so rude people. I had a full blown convo with a stranger about the amount of PROTEIN was in a loaf of bread! Gotta love the fellow label readers.
I love the fact that the checkout lines are named after the local towns. If you are from Lynbrook, you are obviously gonna hop on the «Lynbrook» line like a proud solider! The cashier I had was super friendly and pulled out a hidden shelf I could place my items on. She said «so your arms don’t get tired.» NICE!
Trader Joe’s sells fruit by the piece. I like that because most food stores repermand you for ripping the banana bunch apart. I only want four bananas… why do I need to buy six so they can rot away on my counter? So at Trader Joe’s, if you want ONE banana, you can get one, for 19 cents!
I picked up some bagged brussels sprouts for the week. I usually go to the local market for my fresh sprouts. Not only were TJ’s Brussels cleaned and bagged, but when I went to cut them cup and cook, they were clean as whistles (usually I have to rinse and chuck a lot of them.)
They had food demos going on, which any hungry shopper would savor.
There is a large customer bathroom which I was surprised to see. Due to the size of the store, I figured I’d see a sign reading «No Customer Restrooms.»
So in the end, I would never Trade this Joe in…

This TJ’s has a decent layout. The floor looks a little dirty at this one though.
I am always a fan of most TJ’s because they have great food products at really good prices. I guarantee you that milk is cheaper there than at your local, bigger supermarket!
This location got only three stars due to the crazy parking lot!

As with most Trader Joe’s their service is stellar, shelves well and properly stocked, return policies that are incredible and overall product selection that is just fantastic.
The one downfall to me at least is that their location parking lot is a mess, it’s small, crowded spaces and overrun by mini vans. Other than that issue it’s really a 5 star location.