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AgedParmy OP t1_ivosrk6 wrote

I agree with what you said about there being a lot of bad food at TJ’s but my first thought was that that’s the case in every grocery store (not including small specialty health food stores). I mean Whole Foods, Stop and Shop, Shaws, East Side Marketplace, etc. I’m curious if you think Trader Joe’s is worse than all these other stores. I eat healthy and have no problem doing so by shopping at Trader Joe’s.

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CrankyInProvidence t1_ivpbfwk wrote

Most of the offerings at TJ’s are their own brand. So they clearly aren’t applying much pressure on vendor’s to curb nutritional abuse or broaden more nutritious offerings. Of course not everything is bad, but I have high blood pressure (a common condition) and am concerned about sodium in prepared and frozen foods. I like fresh fish, but they are limited to farmed Atlantic salmon. Most of their beef is marinated in sauces high in sodium, and “low fat” offerings are few and far between. Packaging, which THEY control, aggressively uses hard shell plastic containers. They ship their re-usable grocery bags here from Vietnam. Fresh vegetables are a joke there - with virtually every green packed in plastic. Can you buy grains there? I don’t think so. I love some of the trail mix of nuts, seeds, and fruit, but there is 7 grams of added sugar in a 1/4 cup serving! My point is, they sell primarily prepared foods - with little concern for healthy recipes, so they are pedaling obesity and metabolic disorders to people who are not mindful. There is a lot to resist buying there.

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