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henapple said:

There's rumors flying around about my hometown getting a Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. ..visited both in Nashville today in Green Hills. Not my cup of tea. I'm not a huge organic or gluten free individual nor do i like paying $12 for 16 oz of almond - coconut milk. Traders was tiny...WF did have a decent lunch but not ground breaking. Their meat was ridiculously priced... I'll stick with Kroger, Publix or Restaurant Depot. On a side note. ..The snotty f$@%king asshats of Green Hills didn't make it very enjoyable. Evidently the folks never learned thank you or excuse me. I fought the urge to throat punch men and women all morning. Money or location doesn't mean **** to me...just your character.

Whoa man...chill out! Throat punch? Geez. A head butt is always way more effective

Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFc1pr2yUU

Both stores are considerably out of my way so I don't go often. Not impressed with TJs, but WF sometimes has things you might not find elsewhere. I like SAF Red instant yeast and WF is the only store that carries it around here. 'Course, a vac sealed pound of that will last me forever! Was looking for some black garlic once upon a time. WF has that too. And you're right about meat prices!!

TJ's is not the best ever, but has great hard-to-find ingredients for BBQ: maple sugar, cherry juice, etc.  They also have a good selection of value wine and spirits.

I shop at Whole Paycheck once every 4 years to remind myself why i don't shop there more often. I kinda like TJ's though for some things but only end up there 1-2 times a year since it is not that close to work or home.

I don't go to TJ very often, but we do buy Three Buck Chuck wine and their ready-made pizza dough which is great for doing pizza on the Egg and far more convenient than making it ourselves. And I'm no wine expert/snob by any stretch and am really more of a beer man, but that Charles Shaw is a pretty good drop for $3 a bottle.

henapple said:

There's rumors flying around about my hometown getting a Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. ..visited both in Nashville today in Green Hills. Not my cup of tea. I'm not a huge organic or gluten free individual nor do i like paying $12 for 16 oz of almond - coconut milk. Traders was tiny...WF did have a decent lunch but not ground breaking. Their meat was ridiculously priced... I'll stick with Kroger, Publix or Restaurant Depot. On a side note. ..The snotty f$@%king asshats of Green Hills didn't make it very enjoyable. Evidently the folks never learned thank you or excuse me. I fought the urge to throat punch men and women all morning. Money or location doesn't mean **** to me...just your character.

Don't have a Trader's around here. Did get a Whole Food$ a few months ago. I was looking forward to it, but was somewhat let down. Everything I've bought was of good quality, and some things are not available else where. But everything that is available elsewhere is more expensive at WF. My elder son lives where there are both store's. He mentioned that Trader's has somewhat more interesting food. I can get some organic foods straight from the producers around here. The prices are only marginally less than WF, but it is always a pleasure to deal w. the folks that make the foods. The produce at the local farmer's market may not be organic, but it definitely is fresh, and only comes in from maybe 40 miles, tops. The problem at the farmer's market is not overt rudeness. But people seem to be more inclined to stop and chat, and there are a fair number of people with strollers, or creeping along on scooters. Getting from stall A where the snap peas are, to stall M where the black walnuts are can sometimes be maddening.

Did not like/trust the over priced TJ in the Bay area. Preferred Andronicos in B'zerkely, Podestos, Safeway or Costco. Whole Wallet was just going into Norcal when we returned to TX.... The 6th street WW is not even the ghost small little store on Lamar that we remembered.

KennyLee said:

I don't go to TJ very often, but we do buy Three Buck Chuck wine and their ready-made pizza dough which is great for doing pizza on the Egg and far more convenient than making it ourselves. And I'm no wine expert/snob by any stretch and am really more of a beer man, but that Charles Shaw is a pretty good drop for $3 a bottle.

Hmm - I will have to try the dough. Just got a new computer and I don't know how this will come out...

I shop Whole Foods and Traders - I think they both have their place. I now know the butcher now at Whole Foods and they always have a quality protein on sale that he will cut/grind/etc for me and discuss ways to prepare it. At Kroger/Giant Eagle I am lucky to find someone behind the counter - let alone someone who can suggest cuts, etc. I am 29 and have been caught drinkin a PBR, so I am sure I fit the "hipster" profile to some on this forum - but variety is the spice of life . . so its all good!

Little Steven said:

KennyLee said:

I don't go to TJ very often, but we do buy Three Buck Chuck wine and their ready-made pizza dough which is great for doing pizza on the Egg and far more convenient than making it ourselves. And I'm no wine expert/snob by any stretch and am really more of a beer man, but that Charles Shaw is a pretty good drop for $3 a bottle.

Two Buck Chuck went up 50%?

Yep.....huge increase, but still....$3? I don't get there often because it's not close for me, but when I do I get a case of the red.

Little Steven said:

KennyLee said:

I don't go to TJ very often, but we do buy Three Buck Chuck wine and their ready-made pizza dough which is great for doing pizza on the Egg and far more convenient than making it ourselves. And I'm no wine expert/snob by any stretch and am really more of a beer man, but that Charles Shaw is a pretty good drop for $3 a bottle.

Two Buck Chuck went up 50%?

Yep - When we first went to TJ's Charles Shaw Zinny was $2.19 a bottle - still two buck chuck. Now it is on the other side of $3 bottle. It is an OK wine for the price, course in either the LCBO or BC's LDB it would be at least $8… On day trips I would declare a bottle (normally we have to be out of the country at least 48 hours before returning with a 1.14 litre bottle of wine duty free). When customs asks what did it cost and the answer is $3US, the duty is like $3 and not worth their effort to do the paperwork.

Eggcelsior
Glad to know I'm not the only one who has been to the Pig. At our little local store, the market manager had frozen filet and would cut them for us. He even threw in the ends sometimes. However, he said he had to buy $500.00 worth to get the good filet, so he no longer carried them., He moved to the larger Pig, which is now a Buy-Lo. Selection is just too limited and some prices so high, we now make a weekly trip to town and Publix.
For Atlantans, Dekalb Farmers Market and later the one in Norcross, his brother Harry, I think, was always a great place to shop. Store made sausage, produce, I had never even heard of, lot of seafood and a wide variety of meat. All of the help spoke at least some English and probably would have cut meat, if I requested.
The only thing I miss about that place.
Bob