/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6131229
Better than Trader Joes, at least

For Häagen-Dazs maybe

>>6131235
What a joke that place is.

>>6131241
,,, i-i like trader joes

Do you not think the x is idiotic?

Amen.

>>6131254
Everybody likes Trader Joes
Even OP's mum
He's being a re|3el

>>6131260
Yes, but they make up for it with customer service and quality groceries

Yesterday I asked if they had pork roll (there was none on the shelves) and the manager found me one in the back

9/10 sandwiches too. Might get myself an Italian for lunch

>>6131254
Why overpay for store brand shit?

>>6131229
Publix is awful. The meat and produce suck and the prices are too high for what is basically kroger. The only good part is the bakery.

>>6131264
>Everybody likes Trader Joes
Not true. I'm not a fan for a number of reasons:
- Most of what they sell is snacks and convenience foods I don't buy
- Size of store too large for me; I prefer small shops
- Many items there are packaged in inconvenient sizes for me, and there's too much packaging in general
- The Trader Joe's branded everything creeps me out
- The TJ stores near me all have long lines, and I'd rather not wait in line if I can help it.

My theory was that Trader Joe's is the supermarket for people who don't really cook, instead they live off snacks and heat and eat meals. There are some deals there, to be sure, but for me it's not worth wandering around a crowded store for 20 minutes to find them. I find it a frustrating place to shop.

>>6131294
>The Trader Joe's branded everything creeps me out
It's like living in the Truman Show, right?

>>6131229
Eh.

>>6131294
>- Size of store too large for me; I prefer small shops

Not sure if serious. Trader Joes is pretty small. Granted it's not as small as a corner convenience store, but it most certainly not a supermarket.

>>6131296
Or like joining a cult. It's creepy. All the feel-good messages plastered in a Whole Foods have the same effect on me. I'm buying fucking groceries, not looking for affirmation or an identity. I'm happy with my lifestyle, and am not looking for a new one at the grocery store.

>>6131291
the buffalo chicken subs are delicious

>>6131235
I honestly don't know the appeal of that place. At least with Whole Foods, they pretend to be healthier. With Trader Joe's, it's just expensive and there are no options.

>>6131271
depends on what you're getting

if you can tell me a place to buy canned smoked sardines that are just as good but cheaper I'm all ears

>>6131340
Literally any African or Jamaican store or Giant.

>>6131340
I haven't tried their sardines and I sure as shit am not going to drive there for sardines. The majority of their crap is store brand quality at a ridiculous markup.

>>6131311
>Trader Joes is pretty small.
I do most of my shopping at little neighborhood places: the greengrocer's, the wine shop, the Chinese shop, the butcher, the fish store, the Italian Pork Store, the Middle Eastern store... I only hit the supermarket once in a while. Stores the size of Trader Joe's, Whole Foods or a typical upscale suburban supermarket are just too damned big for me. I don't enjoy the experience if I have to push a cart around.

I went to a WalMart a couple times and just couldn't fucking do it.

Do you idiots even know what Wegmans is?

Publix sucks half the stuff in the store is already past its consume by date

>>6131399
Do you even know what a King Soopers is?

It's expensive but I could walk around in a fresh market all day. They're so dark and cold and play classical music and just cosy in general.

It had good groceries, but like every place in Florida, the AC is blasted to high hell and every building you enter is like 40 F. Fuck that, way too polarizing to walk in 99 f to freezing balls cold

>>6131362
This.
I'm the same way. I can't do the big giant stores. I haven't stepped foot in a Walmart in 6 years. I unfortunately had to run into a Target this holiday season to pick up a specific thing, and it was pure HELL. Goddamn, I hate Target. I try to do all my shopping a local businesses; the Indian market, the Asian market, the Middle Eastern market, the Ukranian produce market, the Russian market, the farmer's market, etc. etc. When I need to stock up on paper products or cleaners, etc, I go to either Grocery Outlet or the 99 cent store, both of which give me the heebiejeebies, but not as bad as Walmart, Target, Safeway, etc. etc.

their eggnog ice cream is god tier.

>>6131269
this
Best sandwich chain by far
besides firehouse
goat Italian

Publix is nice because there are no niggers and a few more options, but in order to provide a nigger free experience, they keep the prices pretty fucking high. I usually go there for bogo sales.

>>6132109
/b/ro! You don't like niggers?! Me neither xD

>>6132109
I'm not sure if that's true. I saw a darkie last time I was there.
>there's a difference between a nigger and a black person
No, it's a slur. An insult. They're black, so that's their insult.

>>6132162
>thinking that saying nigger is meant as some kind of edgy statement

>>6132175
Of course you see some on occasion, you can't literally keep them out of the store, but around here, whenever you compare Publix to the other grocery stores, you get far, far less of that shit.

>>6131332
cheap alcohol though
also, Whole Foods has the best supermarket hot food IMO, especially their soups

>>6132181
>thinking I don't like niggers isn't the most trite "ow the edge" statement in 4chan culture

>>6132162
faggot detected

>>6132198
underage /b/ migrant confirmed

>>6132162
Not him but stop being a smartass, nobody honestly likes them.

>>6132201
Dude, that's pretty edgy.

>>6132200
wrong and wrong

>>6132201
I don't mind niggers myself, long as they stay out of my neighbourhood.

>>6131794
>yfw I do almost all of my shopping at supertarget. except for the freshfood.

I just don't understand how anyone has time to go to all those places, does it take you a whole entire day just to shop for groceries? How do you have that much time to spend shopping?

>>6131235
Trader Joes is just some overrated california hister bullshit that people rave about. same as in n out and california pizza kitchen.
>muh cali lifestyle
>muh best coast