Karen O'Mara wrote:

> I like many of the TJ's products such as the peeled shallots, the
> cubed squash, the Niman Ranch beef, the cheap wine, the tomato-red
> pepper soup, the Kashi cereal, the multi-seed crackers, the Boursin
> cheese (half the price of Safeway), the Brussels sprouts, and heck, a
> few other things.


My Trader's list includes real maple syrup inexpensive enough to use as
the sweetener in baked goods, jams, big inexpensive chocolate bars both
milk and dark, specialty candies, dried unsulphered apricots, pecans for
pecan waffles and other nuts such as walnuts and dried coconut. After 4
weeks of working in a wine and cheese shop, I am now turning up my nose
at Trader's cheese. It used to be fine.


--Lia