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I guess it depends on your perspective. I live here in the land of  
Whole Paycheck. Some people call it Whole Foods. Now you want to talk  
about ridiculously marked up, crudded up stuff. It gives me anxiety  
just to walk in there, I swear. How can anyone justify those prices  
for things? Ugh. Trader Joe's has it *all* over Whole Paycheck in  
terms of not-as-horrendous-for-you-as-most-things convenience foods,  
but where they really excel are odd ball things like really good fresh  
nuts and staples, things like big ole buckets of good maple syrup and  
honeys and nut butters. And they carry a premade puff pastry that's  
about twice as much at Whole Paycheck, and is so good it's worth  
paying for to have on hand for emergency desserts. I have yet to find  
one here in Virginia/MD that has any kind of real produce section.

I am looking forward to finding a local roaster up in Ithaca, the  
coffee is the one thing I have not resourced since we moved out of DC.



On Jul 3, 2008, at 6:41 PM, VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:

> I see them as almost opposite.  Aldi's being the ultimate in no  
> frills grocery shopping.  And Trader Joes has "upscale" products and  
> store layout, with appropriate pricing.
> Van Dell