[Sca-cooks] About Trader Joe's

[Elaine Koogler]

Nancy Kiel wrote:

>Our family joke about Trader Joe's was that eggs cost $50;  the eggs were in fact cheaper than the supermarket, but there were so many other cool things there---interesting cheese, wines, crackers, etc---that you always spent more than you intended.  I usually only shopped there when buying things for a party, like interesting cheeses....
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We have so far to go to get a Trader Joe's that whenever I'm anywhere 
near where the closest one is (about 40 miles away, in Annapolis), I 
stop in...as I did today.  Got lots of cool stuff, but given current 
prices on things, didn't find it all that much more expensive than my 
local Safeway...and got better variety, for the most part, and certainly 
higher quality.  We also are seeing a number of Wegman's going up in the 
DC area...one in northern VA, and now a new one up north of 
Baltimore...sigh...it's even bigger and better than Trader Joe's...but 
so far away!!!

Kiri