Trader Joes

[PamNY]

The thing I dislike the most at TJs is the slowness of the check out people. It's like they are all in another world. I generally run in to buy a few things and I hate waiting, nor do I want to be chatted up.

The checkout people are consistently good at our TJs -- much better than Whole Foods, where the whole concept of exchanging money for groceries seems to be new to a lot of the folks.

I'm always amazed at how well TJs handles the long lines. They do tend to be chatty, but I'm from the south so I'm used to that.

[indysteel]

There's a TJs near where most of my doctors' offices are. One day a year, I schedule all my annual exams. Typically, I have a bit of time to kill between appointments in the morning, so I go to TJs. Well, that's prime time for the stay-at-home moms in the area, with their small children in tow--small, precocious children who are given their own child-size grocery carts to wheel around with playful abandon. The mothers are invariably on their cell phones and are playing little attention to their offspring. It's like a roller derby in there; I'm lucky to get out alive.

[PamNY]

Child size grocery carts? Oy.

[Eden]

Child size grocery carts? Oy.

The co-op I shop at has a couple of them too..... toddler sized, they are just the right height for slamming into knee caps or shins.... (which nearly happened to me last night)

[indysteel]

Apparently, TJs calls them "customer in training" carts. Oy is right.