Trader Joe’s

We go to Trader Joe’s for groceries whenever we can. We always go the one in Rochester, Mn. to load up the car with all manner of goodies. There is a reason it is listed as one of the five best groceries in the USA. Love the selection, employee attitude, quality of food, and the beautiful flowers for sale. One of our very favorite items is the ginger cookies — — - eeeMama, so good. Actually, we have never purchased anything we did not like. For us this is the perfect size and selection. Very low key, wide aisles, pretty vegetables and fruits, and always someone there to help you. It reminds me of our hometown grocery, HyVee. Although larger stores, same employee attitude.

Great little store for gourmet, organic and wine! I was in here yesterday and picked up 3 little hyacinth plants for my co-​workers, they were only $ 2 and they make our office smell fantastic.

Trader Joe’s is a great place, and their food is good too. And their pickles are the best. You even get stickers! I like to find the goose, because you can get a lollipop. Their staff are really helpful and nice. That’s a good thing because some stores staff are mean. But Trader Joe’s is a good store. I love their food because it’s yummy and healthy.

trader joes in general are fine establishments. The products they offer are just the right amount of hipster combinations. This one in particular comes stocked with the trader joes liquor store to the left. Ample parking, friendly staff, organized stock~

Great place. They are the only place sells kosher meet in towen (chicken. Beef) and wine
Fruits and vegtiable are very good including organic option
Always have intresting options from around the world
Not cheap, but it is worth it.

I love Trader Joe’s! As a NY native, I was excited to see the familiar store from the highway. The staff here are all super friendly and not pushy at all. The prices are reasonable, which is surprising because they seem to be much lower than what I pay back home. I will be back for more of my favorites, like their lacey cookies, gorgonzola crackers, and their new sweet potato chips. Thank you Trader Joe’s for providing my with both my healthy and not-​so-​healthy snacks!

Pretty much the standard Trader Joe’s. Decent selection of fruits and veggies along with the items you can only find at Trader Joe’s. The employees are friendly. They have a wine store as well, however it is closed on Sunday.

Try their samples, don’t be afraid to try new things! Never disappointed by this place and they always had excellent customer service!

It’s a small Trader Joes but it has everything I am looking for. I am happy there is one within an hour of my house so no complaints. The checkout lines always seem to be long, I’m not sure why which makes it hard to just run in to pick up one item.

I used to really enjoy shopping at Trader Joe’s, but over the years I have found their staff and management rude and disinterested in customer service. I also think their food has declined in quality. If you want great service and food, shop at the local Hy-​Vee stores or the People’s Co-​op.

Great wine selection. Always fresh food and interesting choices and pairings. Love when they have samples. $ 3 chuck is for everyone and great with everything. Just wish the parking was easier.

One of the smaller Trader Joes I’ve been to but excited it’s here in Rochester. Didn’t expect to see one.
As far as Trader Joes goes it has the same items available. Only issue I have is the lack of pre-​made food items. I. e salads, meals for one, burrito fixings. I specifically shopped at this TJ because I was looking for a healthy dinner to eat in my hotel room. Lots of fast food and chain restaurants in Rochester. This TJ didn’t really have meals for one like my regular TJ in Chicago. Oh well they did have their regular brand of frozen meals so I could at least enjoy some Chicken Tikka Masala.
Friendly staff and plenty of parking available. Nice to have a Trader Joe in the area.

It’s Trader Joe’s. Being from California they have some good policies on foods they sell and their product line is pretty good. Trader Joe’s also has some fun novelty snacks you can’t find at other places. But regular Trader Joe’s shoppers know TJ’s has never been a place to get the best quality fruits and vegetables. It was always surprising that even in California with good quality fruits and vegetables everywhere TJ’s always had mediocre quality produce. So buy their bread and TJ line of products, but go somewhere else for fresh fruits and vegetables.

I spotted this Trader Joes when we got off the freeway. We actually just finished a 12hr drive from Buffalo, NY and to my surprise there was a one in Rochester. I told my friend that before we drive back, I need to do some damage (shopping) there. He stressed that it had to be quick because the drive back home would be brutal.
Normally i pickup tons of snacks which are above the coolers in the middle of the store. THose little candies and sweets is where I do most of my shopping. The kind of shopping I do there is alot of omiyage to bring back home and share with family & love ones.
So i get in, get a basket and do some speed shopping. I pickup my usual things i need, first and foremost is the Cookie Butter regular and the crunchy version. those two are a Must. I picked up 3 bottles each.
Next is the ginger snaps cookies, and then the Belgian cookie waffles, other things that are must when going there is the Maple leaf cookie and then recently they have a speculoos cookie which is like a MUST get item.
Glad I was able to do $ 75 of damage to my wallet in about 15mins. Very worth it for sure.
Over all the staff is very very friendly, i think it recently open too, so its nice & very clean. One of the best Trader Joes I have visited so far.

If you want something different than the usual grocery store, this is the place to go. They have a really great organic selection and produce. I especially like their flowers and plants when you walk in the door, I never get out of there without buying some. Also they usually have some different types of fruit, I got some really unusual melon there.

Being a person who hates grocery shopping, I found this place kind of fun. Lots of stuff you wouldn’t find at Hy-​vee, like massive wine selection.
Their 3 buck chuck wine is great. Large selection of gourmet and organic type food. Their produce seems good too. I bought a guacamole mix that turned out great with their fresh avocados and tomatoes. They have lots of different types of cheeses also.

It is fabulous that Rochester got a Trader Joes… I finally got a chance to swing in here and check this location out… first of all — love that they have a ton of parking close to the door…
This Joes is huge inside and has lots of room to push many carts down the aisle… I really appreciated and noticed this… because sometimes it is like a sporting event coming out of TJ’s alive and unscathed because people get rude sometimes…
The bread was displayed very well and I know they carry mostly the same stuff at all locations but perhaps due to the room I noticed new things and made new discoveries. I tasted the mandarin orange chicken on the demo table and yummmmm…
Love the chocolate potato chip like candy… addicting…
AND they have arborio rice for 2.59 and the local grocery wanted almost 8.00 for some…
This location has hard liquor also and it seems trader joes now has a brand exclusive on some types of liquor — i noticed vodka of the Gods and rum of the Gods… etc.etc.
They had some nice choices in vodka and rum… and cheaper than the regular liquor store…
I would say this is a great addition to the Rochester Minnesota business neighborhood…

Nice layout at Trader Joe’s. Good selection of organically grown foods. Decent prices. Well-​stocked shelves. Food and drink tasting was available at the back of the store — nice touch!

I have to put in a good word for Trader Joe’s, one of my favorite grocery places from back East. I was happy moving to Rochester to know that this would be here, although as it turns out Rochester has a number of good grocery places, which are all special for different reasons. The same is true for TJ’s.
Don’t go here to buy produce, buy that at the co-​op or the farmer’s market. Do not go here looking for some specific brand you normally like to buy — TJ’s keeps prices low by putting its own brand and packaging on everything.
Examples of great things that you can find at TJ’s:
— $ 2.99 Charles Shaw wine, it’s not half bad! aka «Three Buck Chuck»! Now that we have real jobs we don’t buy Charles Shaw anymore, but we always buy 2 – 3 bottles of wine that is priced at $ 5-​$ 10 while we are at TJ’s. They do tastings on the weekends.
— $ 2.99 Trader Joe’s O’s High Fiber Cereal. All the TJ brand cereals are cheaper than what you’d get at other stores, and they’re yummy. The TJ’s O’s are cheap, addictive, and boy, will they keep you regular.
— The frozen dal makhani. I don’t know how much it costs, but it’s the best vegetarian frozen dinner I’ve ever had. This is better than the dal makhani at India Garden OR India Curry House, which isn’t saying much.
Final plugs for a few special yummy things: the freeze dried fruits (not just dried, freeze dried! makes them better), especially mango. The banana chocolate chunk protein muffins. The truffle brownie mix (Consumer Reports 2011 winner for best tasting brownie mix, $ 2.99). I only wish that there wasn’t such turnover of the items, sometimes I fall in love with something that only they make, then they stop making it. They used to make a Macedonian dip called Pinjur and discontinued it — no one else sells this stuff.

I’ve been to a lot of Trader Joe’s in a lot of different cities, and this relatively new store in Rochester is very nice. The store is spacious compared to a lot of other locations, and it’s easy to maneuver through the aisles.
For those not familiar with Trader Joe’s products, I’ll mention a few I purchase regularly and recommend: Yogurt cheese slices, whole-​wheat pasta, tomato-​basil pasta sauce, organic polenta, whole-​wheat couscous, assorted organic canned beans, pita chips, sundried tomatoes in olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, kalamata olives, savory baked tofu, brown jasmine rice… I could go on and on!
Maybe Trader Joe’s is different from the typical grocery stores you are accustomed to, but if you give it a try, I think you will find some products that you won’t see at other stores at really good prices.