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Anyone find it funny that a store that is deliberately secretive about the origins of its products is annoyed that someone is being transparent about it?
Anyone find it funny that a store that is deliberately secretive about the origins of its products is annoyed that someone is being transparent about it?
Thank you!
I live 5 miles away from a Trader Joes. It is the most over-hyped store in HISTORY. I mean, it is just a small corner store that has some "fun" items! That's it! It is like a slightly larger, slightly fancier Seven-Eleven!
$2 bottles of red wine that taste like urine and grape juice! And they are proud of the product!
Their top selling item is frozen orange chicken! And they are proud of it!
Why don't we have something like Trader Joes in Canada? High quality with affordable prices.
Metro etc are atrocious. I'd rather shop in Chinatown than Metro's, same quality, half price.
My god! You will go to any length to prop up American things and demean Canadian ones!
Here's a blurb on TJ's most selling wine!
Trader Joe’s Charles Shaw wines are better known as “Two Buck Chuck” for their $1.99 and $2.99 price tags. Though some people seem perfectly content with these bargain wines, most wine lovers would rather drink the beer. Keith Wallace, executive director of The Wine School of Philadelphia, puts it bluntly: “A lot of people are saying that this stuff is as good as anything else. It’s not. It’s just crap.” Michael Steinberger, wine columnist for Slate, managed to dub the varieties of Two Buck Chunk “plonk,” “swill,” and “undrinkable” in a single column. What its drinkers may not know, says Wallace, is that there is no actual Charles Shaw winery and that the Two Buck Chuck production process more closely resembles that of soda than wine. “This wine is made in a factory, with a lot of synthetic and concentrated products, like grape musk, added to manipulate the flavors from bad grapes,” he says. Yes, it is $2 a bottle, but you get what you pay for.
Though some people seem perfectly content with these bargain wines — see our taste test in the video above — most wine lovers would rather drink the beer.
My god! You will go to any length to prop up American things and demean Canadian ones!
Here's a blurb on TJ's most selling wine!
Trader Joe’s Charles Shaw wines are better known as “Two Buck Chuck” for their $1.99 and $2.99 price tags. Though some people seem perfectly content with these bargain wines, most wine lovers would rather drink the beer. Keith Wallace, executive director of The Wine School of Philadelphia, puts it bluntly: “A lot of people are saying that this stuff is as good as anything else. It’s not. It’s just crap.” Michael Steinberger, wine columnist for Slate, managed to dub the varieties of Two Buck Chunk “plonk,” “swill,” and “undrinkable” in a single column. What its drinkers may not know, says Wallace, is that there is no actual Charles Shaw winery and that the Two Buck Chuck production process more closely resembles that of soda than wine. “This wine is made in a factory, with a lot of synthetic and concentrated products, like grape musk, added to manipulate the flavors from bad grapes,” he says. Yes, it is $2 a bottle, but you get what you pay for.
Though some people seem perfectly content with these bargain wines — see our taste test in the video above — most wine lovers would rather drink the beer.
I don't ever pay attention to the Charles Shaw wines at Trader Joes(they sell those at a bunch of grocery stores as well)--they might not even carry even them at all my local TJs. They do have a bunch of mediocre to slightly decent to actually good cheap bottles of Argentine and Italian and French wine there though. I mean you don't expect much from a $7 bottle of wine, but it's decent for just a cheap dinner at home...
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