Trader Joe's is a neighborhood grocery store with amazing food and drink from around the globe and around the corner. Great quality at great prices. That's what we call value.
Trader Joe's (traderjoes.com) has 224 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 3.2 out of 5.
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traderjoes.com
Category
Grocery Stores & Markets
Location
Monrovia, California
Listed on Five Star Index
2026
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Agree with other posters: TJs is like shopping in a Communist country. Specifically, at the store on University in San Diego a nasty employee would not let me accompany my elderly mother in due to Covid. I did have two masks on. My mother explained that she has a heart condition and needed my help. Finally, the employee shouted at me in front of everyone in line that so could enter. She's disgusting.
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Henry T.
TJ's has every single thing I need
TJ's has every single thing I need. Except real soda. Hansens doesn't count. Loaded up on water, trail mix, cliff bars, pepperoni sticks and beef jerky. The cashier asked if I was going hiking - yep. Then we had a nice conversation about her Yosemite Dome Hike. It was like catching up with an old friend. I've been to every TJs in San Jose and they are all fantastic.
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Doggie M.
Trader Joe’s is the best
Trader Joe’s is the best. So many things are difficult right now in this economy with the virus. Trader Joe’s brings a bit of joy to our family life. The French vanilla ice cream is glorious. If life gets really hard there are the peanut butter filled pretzels.
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Kim S.
I I see Trader Joe's are so desperate…
I I see Trader Joe's are so desperate they keep coming up with these new products which some are so disgusting and the pastries are extremely sweet the only thing that's good about Trader Joe's is the price it's not as high as the other supermarkets
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Yanniel
Don’t recommend
Don’t recommend. Lack service and quality. I’m better at Publix 100 times and Whole Foods.
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Ron M.
Good variety of high quality groceries…
Good variety of high quality groceries for a decent price. The workers there are nice too and always helpful
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Charles S.
Illegal Draconian Totalitarian Management
To shop at Trader Joe's on Hyde Street in San Francisco is to experience a petty despot atmosphere with employees first standing at the entrance like foreign government sentinels zealously prohibiting anyone from entering the store without a mask. These same employees later will chase after customers not wearing a mask "properly" in order to shout and harass and intimidate them into conformity with the store's "rules", which are all unconstitutional and an infringement of civil and human rights -- all for supposed reasons of health, but their temperaments and attitude indicate something quite other than health concerns.
There is no sense of safety or pleasure while shopping in this fascistic warehouse. Looking for food items while trying to master perfect attainment of all the store rules, including following the arrows and monitoring your mask, makes you want to cry out to Amnesty International for the abuse of human rights one experiences inside the store -- the right to breathe, the civil right not to be intimidated.
This store offers absolutely NO accommodation for people who can't wear a mask for medical or psychological reasons, which is completely against any ethical legal code. That even Governor Newsom's "mandate" admits there are medical exemptions and that his own playbook online states no one should come after a customer in the store, harassing him or her about a mask -- these employees and managers of Trader Joe's completely ignore the Governor's guidelines and officiously refuse to acknowledge any exception to their iron-clad "rule."
The employees and the manager use shouting, emotional blackmail, and the threat of banning you permanently from the store for letting your mask slip beneath your nose and ignore any claim that you need to breathe -- just to maintain their false and abusive sense of "law and order" in the store.
I think North Korean soldiers have more empathy and sensitivity than anyone hired at Trader Joe's.
Everything the store does to keep "customers safe" involves infringing every customer's constitutional and human rights, victimizing them and re-traumatizing them each time a shopper enters.
While the store has great and affordable products, it makes each customer walk a very narrow, fascist tight-rope of rules and behavior, including forcing customers to follow arrows directing their feet in one direction only, while raping their civil and human rights at the same time,
This is no way to run a business. This shop should be sued into bankruptcy for their criminal behavior.
I've telephoned Trader Joe's legal counsel and the legal counsel informed me that all I have said in this review is not illegal, is okay constitutionally, and the store policy in no way infringes on one's civil rights, all of which is a boldface lie.
This store's policy infringes on CA Civil Rights Law section 51, Federal Civil Rights Law. Title 11, Section 2000, the U.S. Constitution, Amendments 1 and 4. No store policy may infringe on a customer's rights. No store policy can go against the law, but Trader Joe's store policy certainly does, and it is breaking several laws each time it forces a customer to wear a medical device on his or her face.
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Linda V.
High Praise
I give Trader Joe’s five stars. I especially applaud Hanna at the Mt. Pleasant, SC, store. What a joy she was during checkout. Absolutely the best! I say each and every time I shop in a Trader Joe’s that not only are the food items offered so good but the customer service goes above and beyond. Best ever! Again, very special praise for Hanna!