On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:41:06 -0800, Marcella Peek
wrote:

but I do find TJ's eggs more expensive
than any grocery store around.

Hi Marcella,

I believe you meant to say "less."

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On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:41:06 -0800, Marcella Peek
wrote:

I don't have a WalMart nearby....but I do find TJ's eggs more expensive
than any grocery store around. At under $2 for cage free/hormone free
eggs they are sometimes even cheaper than conventional eggs at Safeway
or other chain grocery stores. Milk is less expensive as well. Butter
is always less expensive and sometimes cheaper than Costco.

No WalMart near me either and CostCo sells in such large quantities
that it's not worth it to buy milk there for only two people (one who
never drinks milk and the other one who mostly cooks with it).

When I've noticed prices on staples, they match or beat Safeway in
milk, eggs and butter. I don't use TJ's as my main grocery store
(it's not meant to be), but if I'm there and need any of those items
I'll pick them up. No need to run to Safeway just for that anymore.
As far as bread, the selection at TJ's is great... a lot better than
most Safeways.

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Another Day Another OS wrote:
sueb wrote:

What ever you do, don't get the Vrut!

I'm not a big TJ's fan. A lot of it has to do with the employees. I
once stopped in a store at 4 in the afternoon after working out at the
gym. I grabbed some salmon, a bag of frozen gyoza, and a big tin of
Altoids. The checkout girl asked if it was my lunch.

I have to add my two cents here... We made our second trip to TJ
yesterday afternoon and while the crowd we saw the first time was gone
and we were able to pick up a few things our encounter with the
employees was less than encouraging. TJs seems to have followed the GE
model of hiring the - service jobs are beneath us crowd from the
immediate neighborhood - in fact many of them reminded me of the former
Shop -N Save crew that I desperately avoided when I lived in Squirrel Hill.

We couldn't get anyone to help us find what we were looking for and when
we located the stuff and went to check out, it was all the cashier could
do to tear herself away from her conversation with her co-worker and
trouble herself to check us out.

Whatever Whole Foods does to hire their pleasant and helpful, if a bit
quirky and sometimes too familiar staff, Whole Foods is about the only
store in the city that has figured out a way to keep the sneering at the
customers they loath element out of their employee ranks.


I have to say that I went to Trader Joe's in Pittsburgh last night and
didn't have this experience at all. The staff was helpful and friendly.
In fact, I couldn't find any ginger "Cat" cookies and when I mentioned
this to the person checking me out he actually went and looked at a
display that said there were ginger cookies, trying to find some for me
and it turns out that they were out. Maybe you went on a "bad" night.

Heidi