Trader Joe's recently opened at 22nd and Market selling tasty and fairly inexpensive groceries ranging from fresh meats to produce to prepared goods to dairy. Their strengths are in their frozen prepared entrees, wide selection of healthy cereals, good bread and fresh bags of salad, and tasty sauces and mixes. Their weakness are the produce (not particularly cheap or good), fresh or frozen meats that are not prepared in some fashion, and pitiful and fairly inexpensive of other non-food items you might buy at a supermarket like toilet paper or toothpaste. But what they do well like the frozen blueberry waffles or the frozen desserts or the Thai coconut sauce, they do very well at good prices. Parking is available behind the building and can be validated at the register. Also, this being Pennsylvania, TJ's does not have cheap wine like in other states.
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