I shop weekly at TJ's and love the store, but I must agree with the complaints of spoiled milk. I buy 1% and get some nice tall person to reach way back in the display. No matter
what expiration date it shows, it only last about 4 days at the most. I buy 1/2 gal and my fridge is new, so it is not my fridge. I think the delivery people keep it out in the sun too
long. Also I must complain about the cheese blocks. I usually buy sharp cheddar or Colby and they mold soon after opening even when they are wrapped tightly and put in sealed
plastic bags. After reading all these complaints, I wish TJ's would try to correct these problems.

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Anonymous wrote:Same with their bread. I try and avoid buying bread at trader joes unless we will go through it in 2-3 days

We keep the bread in the freezer and take slices out as needed. They thaw quickly.

I shop almost exclusively at trader joes and only have a problem with a product once a year at most. Same odds as shopping at other stores. Am I just lucky?

You are just lucky. My milk from TJ's always went bad quickly. Not even 4 days. 2 of us who ate 1 of their products were violently ill, my nuts were bad, even had to return 2 types of fing candy recently. All the bad stuff recently were things I've bought there for years so it would seem something is breaking down.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand Trader Joes and honestly don't know why people shop there. We try to eat healthy, and it's basically a mecca of packaged junk food.

Are you kidding?! They actually use less artificial ingredients than most! And all of their dairy is hormone free. I have never had a problem with the milk. But I buy organic.

I'm not kidding. You can literally SEE the packaging -- it's all overprocessed junk. And their house brands are loaded with MSG.

I absolutely disagree. For example, the kids yogurt is colored with beet juice! BEET JUICE. Not artificial coloring.

(NP here)...But the store consists almost entirely of packaged products! You can't shop exclusively there. They have a terrible produce section, no butcher. They get a ton of food recalls too.

I'm the 'unsalted almonds, wild blueberries' PP. Nobody on this thread has claimed that you can or should do all of your shopping there. I don't.

But, I'm price-sensitive so I swing by TJs -before- I go to Whole Foods and the precious, precious farmer's market where "craft honey" is $17.00 a jar.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand Trader Joes and honestly don't know why people shop there. We try to eat healthy, and it's basically a mecca of packaged junk food.

Are you kidding?! They actually use less artificial ingredients than most! And all of their dairy is hormone free. I have never had a problem with the milk. But I buy organic.

I'm not kidding. You can literally SEE the packaging -- it's all overprocessed junk. And their house brands are loaded with MSG.

I absolutely disagree. For example, the kids yogurt is colored with beet juice! BEET JUICE. Not artificial coloring.

(NP here)...But the store consists almost entirely of packaged products! You can't shop exclusively there. They have a terrible produce section, no butcher. They get a ton of food recalls too.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I don't buy milk there anymore. They must leave it out for a long time at some point.

I've come to this conclusion too.

Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand Trader Joes and honestly don't know why people shop there. We try to eat healthy, and it's basically a mecca of packaged junk food.

I cannot stand that you post this on every thread concerning Trader Joes. Today alone I've eaten the following foods purchased at TJs:

unsalted almonds

avocadoes

a lime

a tomato

organic kidney beans

frozen wild blueberries

I suspect something falls apart in the supply chain, something falling out of temperature spec for a long time. This shouldn't happen. It doesn't with larger, more professional grocery stores.

Anonymous wrote:I just poured out 1/2 a gallon of milk with a 1/19 sell by date.

I meant 1/29 sell by- sorry.

I just poured out 1/2 a gallon of milk with a 1/19 sell by date.

As a person who grew up with cows, I buy our milk only at TH. The fresh milk is no longer fresh after second day. If you want your milk last a week, you are drinking milk with chemicals. WF have a good milk, but more xpesive than TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand Trader Joes and honestly don't know why people shop there. We try to eat healthy, and it's basically a mecca of packaged junk food.

Are you kidding?! They actually use less artificial ingredients than most! And all of their dairy is hormone free. I have never had a problem with the milk. But I buy organic.

I'm not kidding. You can literally SEE the packaging -- it's all overprocessed junk. And their house brands are loaded with MSG.

I absolutely disagree. For example, the kids yogurt is colored with beet juice! BEET JUICE. Not artificial coloring.

Yes, but it's still full of sugar. And probably nasty factory farm dairy.

All their snacks and cookies and convenience items -- same crap as at the regular store, just GMO-free (maybe...not really that important anyway) but still sodium-laced, with enriched flour, sugar, and other additives. Blech.

All of their dairy is RBST free.

And, last I checked, most "convenience items" have salt and sugar. I'm not talking about their cookies and chips. Although, IMO, those items have much less sugar and preservatives than most.

The majority of us dairy seems to be hormone-free these days. That doesn't mean it's antibiotic-free, humane, or fed an appropriate (grass-based vs grain) diet.

I only buy their freezer items. Got tired of throwing their chicken and milk out.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand Trader Joes and honestly don't know why people shop there. We try to eat healthy, and it's basically a mecca of packaged junk food.

Are you kidding?! They actually use less artificial ingredients than most! And all of their dairy is hormone free. I have never had a problem with the milk. But I buy organic.

I'm not kidding. You can literally SEE the packaging -- it's all overprocessed junk. And their house brands are loaded with MSG.

+1 It's like an upscale 7-11. So much junk to chose from.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand Trader Joes and honestly don't know why people shop there. We try to eat healthy, and it's basically a mecca of packaged junk food.

Are you kidding?! They actually use less artificial ingredients than most! And all of their dairy is hormone free. I have never had a problem with the milk. But I buy organic.

I'm not kidding. You can literally SEE the packaging -- it's all overprocessed junk. And their house brands are loaded with MSG.

I absolutely disagree. For example, the kids yogurt is colored with beet juice! BEET JUICE. Not artificial coloring.

Yes, but it's still full of sugar. And probably nasty factory farm dairy.

All their snacks and cookies and convenience items -- same crap as at the regular store, just GMO-free (maybe...not really that important anyway) but still sodium-laced, with enriched flour, sugar, and other additives. Blech.

All of their dairy is RBST free.

And, last I checked, most "convenience items" have salt and sugar. I'm not talking about their cookies and chips. Although, IMO, those items have much less sugar and preservatives than most.

Bring your spoiled, rotten, foul tasting food back to TJs... they will happily replace it.