Trader Joe’s

Like any other Trader Joe’s I have been in. Clean, well laid out, on the smaller side so it can get crowded at peak use times, great deals on healthier frozen foods, snacks, more specialty items, cheese, coffee etc. Not great for buying produce. I don’t often buy meat but my impression is that the meat selection is limited and pricey.
I haven’t noticed yet that this particular store was super crowded as many of the others I have been to are. This may be due to the Safeway and Indian market located in the same shopping center.

Clean organized store. Checker wasn’t as friendly as in other TJ locations I have visited.

Thank you, whoever decided to open this place! I don’t know how we managed to live without it. The service is great. The selection is the same is in any other Trader Joe’s.

I really love this store. I just don’t really like some of the situations I had. Like when I was in the check out line and the bagger was bagging my items. He was talking to the cashier and he put my bags every where. So when he put them in the cart and I wasn’t thinking and automatically put them in the car. When I got home like 2 bags of groceries are missing. When I went back there they were like «There you are you forgot your bags.» Like excuse me. They whole time they were scanning and bagging my items they were talking to each other about some interesting personal stuff. Like I appreciate the bromance and everything but don’t forget to give me my bags and then blame it on me when I come back for them. Overall I love this store and they have really good food.

I love Trader Joe’s! There’s now another one close to my house. I prefer going to this location versus the Issaquah location because 1. parking is easier to get in & out, and 2. you don’t have to bring your reusable grocery bags, like you do at the Issaquah location since Issaquah banned plastic bags. They have a good selection of products. I’m a big fan of their lemonades & iced tea/​lemonades and always stock up on that. They also have a really good selection of frozen microwavable dinners and they’re all yummy-​some of my favorites are the Butter chicken, enchiladas/​burritos, and the pizzas. I also really like their tortilla nacho cheese chips and they have a huge chip selection. I’ve also gotten their spinach and bakery items. The staff are really nice & helpful. Also, in the back, they have samples of products. They also have mini shopping carts-​my little cousins love coming here with me and pushing the mini carts around, haha.

Healthy food at cheap prices…
Trader Joe’s is my favorite market, people are friendly as well. the deli bar has a good variety of healthy sandwiches cheaper then Safeway or Qfc…
They need to get more juices

LOVE TJs!
Good selection of products, fresh produce and that little ‘tasters choice’ bar in the back with something new to taste before purchasing is always Fun! I almost always see moms bringing their kids to the ‘bar’, allowing the little rascals to opt for either a cookie or candy pop, whenever I’m sampling a new coffee back there.
Their bananas are always the most inexpensive on the Plateau… just .19 cents!
The staff are knowledgeable and helpful!
I like that they stick to their ‘accept products back with no questions asked’ policy; they have never ‘put me on the spot’ for a return.
No drawbacks! This TJs mow has a BIG Card selection! Beautiful images @ .99 cents… a total DEAL!
Shopping is easy; parking is plentiful. I shop here every week and recommend them highly ;)

It’s great to have Trader Joes in the hood. Place is clean and the employees are very friendly & helpful. Though I do miss Ace Hardware.

Really? Five stars?
Come on guys, ignore the hype and objectively review this place. The produce at Trader Joe’s, including this store, is typically past its prime. It’s not even that cheap either — they tend to charge by the item rather than by weight, and I’ve found that it’s typically more expensive by the item when compared to a traditional grocery store. If I were buying a superior product, that’d be one thing… but that’s not the case here.
Besides the fruit and vegetables, nearly everything else (including much of the meat) is pre-​prepared or packaged food — lots of «ready to eat» types of stuff. It is true that they have a lot of variety in this department, but I don’t understand how people adore a store like this when their specialty is frozen and pre-​prepared food.
Add on top of that a fairly bare-​bones shopping experience and customer base that is almost always oblivious to other people in the store… and this is just not a place I want to patronize all that often. Two stars it is.

The long awaited Trader Joe’s is here! You can count on the same unique-​branded products, the cheap wine and the free coffee and samples. Having Bartells and Safeway so close means that any products that TJ’s doesn’t carry are probably located 100 yards away (there always seems to be one thing in a large recipe that Trader Joe’s won’t have). You won’t find much of a difference with this Trader Joe’s from others, although it does feel like there is more free space inside, and the parking the center as a whole is much less of a headache than Redmond or Capitol Hill (poor parking options has been a TJ’s staple from my prior experiences). There is also a bit of a local touch with local high school-​specific murals along the upper walls. The exterior also looks nice and new (a product of the entire center’s remodeling).

Though it might not be as visible from the road, Safeway finally has some competition on the Plateau (QFC is a bit of a hike). The new Trader Joe’s is tucked away in the corner right where the old Ace Hardware space used to be. While the space felt a bit crammed and narrow when Ace called it home, the new layout feels much larger (they possibly expanded it — my memory is fuzzy) and has plenty of empty space. I find that most of the Trader Joe’s I have been to suffer from a lack of cart space, and you often have to do significant weaving. While that problem has not completely mitigated itself in the new store, it is much better than you might find at other locations. Throw in an especially cheery staff, and grocery shopping isn’t quite such a chore anymore.