Tuesday, October 7, 2008

NYC Field Report: TJ IN BK!

So I'm a little late on the follow up, but now I can write to you having visited said TJ store four times! The verdict: it can stay. I was definitely setting myself up for disappointment considering all the negative feedback I had heard about the manhattan location, but I have to say that the BK store is the best I've ever been to. Here's why:

1. It's huge, which means it has the space to carry crazy items that even this TJ slut hasn't seen, like ready-made chicken
tenders (!!!!!!!!!!!)
2. It has an expanded bread section with what seems to be better bread than the LA locations.
3. They have recruited half of brooklyn to act as cashiers for the other half that is shopping, thereby making the extremely long line move surprisingly fast.
4. Their produce section, traditionally the achilles heel of the Trader Joe's empire, actually resembles something you would see in a full scale grocery store. The quality is still the same but the selection is much better.

That's it, folks. For those of you reading in Cali this may seem like a stab in the back, and in many ways it is. But think of it as a stab in the back with one of those fake, retractable knives, because the TJ on burbank and white oak will always be my number one jam.

p.s. here's a link to someone who was allowed to take pictures. me and my camera were politely uninvited...

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