Trader Joe’s Picked Clean on Sunday Night

By Erica M
January 29th, 2007 @ 12:00 PM Ranting

I ordinarily hate to grocery shop on the weekend. During the day, anyway. The stores are swamped and I hate people. I usually go on a weekday evening, or late night on the weekend. But I didn’t have anything to bring to work today for lunch, so I went to TJ’s last night at about 7:45.

The parking lot was so dead, I thought they were closing at 8:00. (They weren’t. Open 9a-9p every day.) And when I got inside, the shelves were practically empty. Or at least, all the usual stuff I like to buy for lunch was gone.

This isn’t really a surprise. I’m sure Sunday is pretty busy. When do they have time to restock? But man, that almost wasn’t even worth the trip. Moral of the story: Plan ahead. Don’t go right before close on Sunday night and expect there to be a worthwhile selection.

Side note: Is it part of TJ employee training to compliment a customer on at least one of their purchases? Every time I’ve gone there my checker has lauded my choice of something. Yesterday was no exception (the mandarin orange chicken), and I heard checkers in two other lines do the same.

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5 Comments so far

  1. dred munkey (unregistered) January 29th, 2007 12:38 pm

    i find that getting there on saturday mornings @ 9 is a good time to get “in and out” and have a decent chance of getting what you came for.

  2. Erica (unregistered) January 29th, 2007 1:48 pm

    Open open open….

  3. Tipper (unregistered) January 29th, 2007 6:20 pm

    I would like to vent: I HATE THOSE PEOPLE WHO WAIT FOR PARKING SPOTS IN THAT LOT*. Every single time I’ve been there, I’ve had no problems finding a spot in the lot, no matter how busy it was, and I don’t even need to sit for five minutes, blocking traffic for half a block, while someone backs out of their spot. I imagine the folks who live in that building get mighty ticked when their garage is blocked all the darn time.

    *And someday I will get over my fear of road rage enough to confront someone on it.

  4. Erica (unregistered) January 29th, 2007 6:26 pm

    If they would just look to the left while they’re sitting there waiting, they would see that there are plenty of spots to be had if they would just freaking drive around.

  5. Kal (unregistered) January 30th, 2007 9:12 am

    You are right about the compliments part.

    “this raspberry blue cheese is soooo good” is last thing I heard a cashier say to me- blech.

    the parking is a problem. but where besids the mall of america is it ever not?


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