Grocery Store Shoot-out: Part 2
Apr. 6th, 2026 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bigmogThe swap to Trader Joes was going well. While I still needed an occasional visit to the big box store, I was enjoying shopping at Trader Joes. It felt a bit more expensive but everything is expensive now so I didn't bother to crunch the numbers.
Consumer Reports did however and found that in the Denver region, Trader Joes is actually more expensive than even Whole Foods. Inconceivable! I was too quick to dismiss Whole Foods as being the most expensive grocery store. A free trial month of Amazon Prime was enough to sell me on giving it a shot.
The single meals, salad bar / hot bar, and pizza slices are all good and with the Prime membership, reasonably priced. I've heard their bakery is also top tier. For everything else, I prefer Trader Joes.
Now I'm debating paying for Prime to make Whole Foods (sorta) affordable or figuring out if I just want to pay the higher prices at Joes. I've already gone from shopping at 1 grocery store to 2. I really don't want to make it 3 stops.
Consumer Reports did however and found that in the Denver region, Trader Joes is actually more expensive than even Whole Foods. Inconceivable! I was too quick to dismiss Whole Foods as being the most expensive grocery store. A free trial month of Amazon Prime was enough to sell me on giving it a shot.
The single meals, salad bar / hot bar, and pizza slices are all good and with the Prime membership, reasonably priced. I've heard their bakery is also top tier. For everything else, I prefer Trader Joes.
Now I'm debating paying for Prime to make Whole Foods (sorta) affordable or figuring out if I just want to pay the higher prices at Joes. I've already gone from shopping at 1 grocery store to 2. I really don't want to make it 3 stops.