Trader Joe’s

This Trader Joe’s location is very nice. I stop by this location whenever I run errands in Danville. Compared with the Pleasanton location, the parking lot is much easier to navigate through (Pleasanton one is very crowded, and the spaces are very small).
Inside, it is a bit cramped by the food sample area/​chilled goods area. Between the nuts/​grains and chilled goods, it can be crowded. But besides that, the Danville location is always clean, and the staff is friendly.

Love — favorite trader joes in area, selection, staff, location it’s great, carry quest bars
Like — what happened to duvel… no seriously.

I love trader Joe’s. Small store but with original food items that often can’t be found elsewhere. Don’t like that there are sweets lined up and down every aisle, put it in a corner so I can avoid it please! I’m taking a star away for having a lot of crappy dried out breads and I hate the brand of corn tortillas they have. Love their garlic and salmon and ready to eat salads. I like that they have a hidden animal. for the kids but wish sugar was not the prize, i would prefer a sticker or tattoo.

Sorry TJ but this is too bizarre not to share. And, it’s not the first time something strange has happen to me. But ONLY in Danville. I love Trader Joes for the most part but today I started picking some of my staples and came across some cheese that did not have a price tag. It was a small block and perfect for my needs. I asked the woman on the floor if she could price it so I can but it. «You can’t buy this. Buy another one» Can we weigh it? The others are $ 13.99 per pound and this is a small piece and I want this one, I said. «NO, you can’t buy this one Buy another one» she said with anger. The scars of Sister Mary Margaret and my catholic up bringing had surfaced yet again. I said «Thank you» and walked away. I picked up some eggs and only eggs because that it all I really needed. As I was checking out the cashier asked if I found what I needed. «I wanted to buy a lot more but I was told NO by one of your staff». She looked me in the eyes and said «oh good. Have a nice day»
At least the last time the cashier refused to talked to me and would not acknowledge me. I probably would have preferred that. Or, maybe not. I don’t know. REALLY, I don’t know what to say.

Trader Joe’s can be a great place to shop. The quality is good and the prices are low. However, they repeatedly fail at being dependable. Too often, one or more items I use frequently are out of stock. Then they follow the textbook merchandising practice of filling up the shelf location and removing the label so I’m left to wonder if they discontinued it or if it will be back on the shelf next week. I also shop weekly at other stores and rarely experience this.

Can’t go wrong, it’s Trader Joes.
Good location right smack in the middle of downtown Danville. Prices are good and so are the goods.
It did seem that this one is smaller than other Joe’s. Otherwise, worth going as any Joe’s

The only downside to this place is the terrible parking lot, lol. Great products at great prices, and these lines never seem long. Great wine and beer selection, always clean, friendly service.

Amazing for choices at an affordable price. There are some family must haves here. The almond butter, orange chicken and their pie crust. A word about the pie crust — I stopped making homemade years ago because of this crust. It has real pieces of butter you can see in the crust. My family can’t tell the difference and it cut my time down by hours!
If you don’t know it, if you don’t like something bring the uneaten portion or the wrapper back and they will refund you. They want you to like what you buy. Also you can ask to taste things. As long as it doesn’t pose a health issue and is within reason they will allow you to try it right there in the store!
The staff is wonderful. There is usually a line after work hours, but it’s worth every minute.

I think as far as Trader Joe’s goes, this is my fave and it’s 5 star as good as it gets! It’s bigger and better parking than the one in Pleasanton. This one seems to have a bigger selection just of everything than many of the other Trader Joe’s. The staff here is always so happy it seems and the shoppers are not all hostile like at the crap hole of a store in Oakland by Lake Merritt. I actually witness fits fights over parking spots at that store, and inside … looked like it just been wrecked and looted!
This store, on the other hand, is located in lovely bucolic Danville, where almost all the high school kids go to college and no one buys American cars. The store is filled with happy polite shoppers and no one thinks your gonna attack them if you just want to talk to someone.
One real nice thing about Trader Joe’s, is the return policy. You can return any product for any reason and get a refund. Didn’t like that bottle of wine you purchased? No prob! Bring it back. For a non real cooking person like me, Trader Joe’s is a life saver … or dinner saver anyways. They have all kind of pre made entrees that all you do is heat up. I think I’m doing Thai pot stickers tonight, the picture on the box looked good! There are even pre made salads, so just open and eat! The wine selection is pretty good, but still, I’d stay away from the 2 buck Chuck.

This place is awesome !! Lots of healthy food !! Very affordable to! Great friendly workers, willing to always help you. Love the free samples too always something new!

I love everything at Trader Joes, I wish they had one in San Ramon! My favorites here are their snacks, condiments and dried fruit and nuts selection.

When it comes to SHOPPING at TJ’s, I am a great fan of the business and definitely FIVE STARS! On average, I shop three times weekly at our Danville location, and a Quicken Report shows me that we spent $ 3,178.44 there in 2104! We also seek out and patronize TJ’s stores on vacations whenever possible…
So, why the THREE STARS here? I just found out that the local management FIRED one of my favorite employees (for attitude issues). «Met» was always cheerful and helpful to me. She was popular with the other employees to the point that one other quit in protest. A single mother struggling financially, she regularly opened the store at 5AM to stock the shelves, yet, always had a smile and «Hi there» for me hours later, and I will miss that.
I managed a small group of engineers in support of sales for three high tech companies and learned that when people have «attitudes», there are often good reasons for that and usually away from the work environment. I don’t know Met’s situation first-​hand, but I’m confident that it was a «manageable problem.»
It’s ironic that TJ’s local management’s motivation in «weeding out the negative attitudes at work» was to IMPROVE MORALE because everyone I spoke with was pretty upset («bummed») over Met’s abrupt departure. Me too… It seems that «DILBERT management» is, perhaps, more prolific than I’d imagined.

I love this location!
I’ve been coming here for years and have never had a problem with produce and meat freshness. All employees go above and beyond with their great customer service. The only thing that sometimes sucks is the parking during lunch hours due to the highschool being right next door.
Other than that I love everything about this place. From the way everything is set up to the incredible prices. LOVE LOVE LOVE =)

Large location with tons of great food selections and always good deals. Produce is fresh and a good selection. They have fresh and even growing herbs (Basel). Store is very busy but lots of checkouts to handle the load.

What’s not to love about this trader joes? Consistently, ever trader joes I’ve been to, the workers genuinely seem to enjoy being there. This location in particular. Must take very good care of their employees. There’s one guy everytime my wife and I come on that just treats like old-​time friends, helps us find what we want, talks about life and his day, asks about ours, helps us to our car… Just a great guy. Place is always well stocked, intuitive layout, easy to find what you want. Always good things to sample in the back (I try to stay away or I will buy whatever they are sampling!).
This is my go to grocery shopping spot. Love it for all the right reasons.

I LOVE TRADER JOE’S!
I always go to Castro Valley location because that’s closer to my home.
Well, today I was in the area to grab a bite at Ike’s for my birthday!
I finally came here after eating at Ike’s and OMG this location is a little bigger than the Castro Valley location.
Almost everything is the same, but the aisles are a little bigger.
The parking lot is a little hectic, but still found a parking.
The staff was very friendly and the products are always unique in their own way!!!

TJ’s Danville is one of my favorite locations. Parking isn’t bad at all and the neighborhood is quite nice. They are also very customer oriented here as well which is a plus!
I’m a fan of most of the products they carry, but my overall favorite are their selections in their liquor department. They carry San Miguel beer! I can never find this stuff anywhere else besides Filipino grocers. Also, they carry a great variety of wine as well.

There’s a confession I must make. I’ve only shopped at Trader Joes once in my life and it was this time.
I’m doing some consulting in this shopping center and while doing my thing I saw the two giant bins I watermelons out front. I thought to myself, Trader Joes would have watermelons with seeds. I’m going to go over there and buy one before I leave for the day.
I don’t buy seedless watermelon. It’s tasteless and disgusting and from I hear harder to grow than seeded watermelon. By harder, I mean on the environment.
They didn’t have seeded watermelon. I thought for sure there would be both. Being that I’m also pregnant and when the craving strikes I go for it, I bought a seedless watermelon.
May I say that this was the worst watermelon that I’ve ever had in my life. This was appalling. Or as my 2 year old son put it, horrible. Now call me harsh and I shouldn’t judge a store by its melons but I can’t get past it.
A few days later I told a friend about it and she said that Trader Joes isn’t known for their stellar produce. I’m not sure what that means but I won’t be back for a awhile.
I’m also not vegan, organic, vegetarian ovo lacto whatever. And I eat more gluten than any mans ever seen. That’s probably why I never bothered to come here in the first place. Not that there’s anything wrong with those things. I’ve just personally never been compelled to shop here.

Have to give them back a star. As Trader Joe’s goes, this one compares quite favorably in terms of crowds and annoying parking lots. At least I can consistently park in the lot and I know what times are good for visiting. Early in the morning always works.
Trader Joe’s isn’t the place to go for general grocery shopping. The selection and price of produce just isn’t up to par with Sprout’s, but we do go here 1−2x a month to stock up on certain items that are very well priced:
Peanut Butter (Trader Joe’s has the best tasting natural peanut butter and the cheapest too)
Healthy frozen entrees for quick weekday dinners
Chocolate (particularly extra dark chocolate)
Party snacks like chips, salsas, crackers
Reduced fat coconut milk (prices can’t be beat on this, great for making Thai curries!)
Box soups and stocks
Cereal
Dried fruit
Specialty cheeses (we don’t usually buy these but they have a fantastic selection)
Coffee
Workers are always super friendly here.

I’ve only visited this Trader Joe’s once, since I’m a Concord gal and am loyal to my local store. But since I was in the neighborhood grabbing lunch one day, I popped in to see if I might be able to find some of the items that taunted me from the Fearless Flyer but never seemed to be at my local store.
Eureka!
This store is a bit larger than the Concord store, and so it allows more maneuverability within the aisles, plus offers you extra time to linger and shop. I swear you could walk those aisles 100 times and still miss good stuff!
This Trader Joe’s came through for me on dukkah (a nut and spice blend which just sounds like fun) and the true elusive item, the brown rice marshmallow treats!
So this is a great store to visit if your local store isn’t delivering the goods. A beautiful store in a beautiful town, and plenty of parking!