Trader Joe’s Best Buys, According to Employees

Have you been wondering what all the best deals are at Trader Joe’s? Well, here are the best deals according to Trader Joe’s employees:

• Bananas
• Organic sweet potatoes
• Eggs
• Italian food
• Five seed bars
• Scandinavian swimmers
• Frozen meals and meats
• Chips, popcorn, and other snacks
• Trader Joe’s private label beer
• Wine
• Free samples

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Walk into a Trader Joe’s, and you can easily walk out with a grocery cart full of food you didn’t spend that much money on. But you could always be shopping smarter at TJ’s, and no one knows that better than the people paid to wear pseudo-Hawaiian shirts and spend hours a day there; those nice employees who know the store like the back of their hands. And whose hands are probably sticky from scooping cookie butter directly into their mouths when you’re not looking.

What do they know that we don’t? We surveyed employees at the famously secretive chain to get the inside scoop. Here are the essential foods to buy at Trader Joe’s, according to the people who work there.

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