Trader Joe's Reviews Summary

Category: Grocery store

Address: 155 Elm St, Westfield, NJ 07090, USA

Phone: +19083010910

Rating: 4.7
based on 195 reviews.

Employee Service

Pros:

  • "Excellent store w a huge selection of items and exceptionally well-mannered employees."
  • "The employees also area eager to help you find what you are looking for."
  • "Trader Joe’s is amazing as is but I wanted to shout out David for making my day!"
  • "Employees here are always helpful and keeping an eye out on the checkout lanes to help move them along."
  • "Absolutely wonderful staff, shelf stock is (almost) always full and everything is fresh."
  • "The staff is extremely helpful and friendly."
  • "The people who work there are very nice and helpful, including the checkout staff."

Cons:

  • "But I didn't feel welcome at all. Some workers were no polite."
  • "Sometimes, the cashiers can be a bit grumpy."
  • "I had an unfortunate encounter with a rude cashier who refused to check me out for some reason."
  • "They are very unwelcoming of people."
  • "Its a ZOO, Simply a ZOO of stuck up people with a high sense of entitlement with a need for an attitude adjustment."

Product Selection

Pros:

  • "The wine selection you can't go wrong, they have the best wine selection ever and inexpensive."
  • "Great selection of booze here too."
  • "It's a typical Trader Joe's with many good selections and lots of organic options."
  • "The cheeses, snacks, and desserts are just great."
  • "Love the selection of wine and liquor! Good prices!"
  • "This is a great store for finding organic foods of excellent quality."
  • "Their beer selection are excellent as well, and I am always impressed by the quality of their own branded beer, wine and alcohols."

Cons:

  • "The store is much smaller than traditional grocery stores and primarily sells private labeled products."
  • "Great store but not very good produce."
  • "Unfortunately their produce is not very good. It goes bad extremely fast."
  • "Not the store's fault, but they do not carry organic no salt crunchy peanut butter anymore."
  • "Unfortunately they didn’t have the Ube ice cream I was looking for."
  • "Unfortunately 3 buck chuck is now 5 buck chuck."
  • "Only reason for 4 stars is the limited supplies."

Parking

Pros:

  • "Parking is hectic on the weekend, but free on Sunday across the street."
  • "Parking is free next to a paid lot."
  • "Thankfully the store has a parking lot for its customers."
  • "If you don't feel like dealing with paying for parking there is a free lot by the police station located at Mindowaskin Park."
  • "Parking situation could be easier/better, but there's a public parking lot right next to the free one that always has spots."
  • "After 6pm it’s free (not sure, I parked on Friday after 6pm and it was free at that time)."
  • "The Trader Joe’s in Westfield has free parking during the holidays, so that is nice."

Cons:

  • "Parking can be tricky depending on the day, weather or season."
  • "Only drawback is the undersized parking lot."
  • "Parking is horrible and it’s crowded."
  • "Only downside is that you have to pay for parking in the main lot by the store."
  • "Parking is atrocious at this location."
  • "Small parking lot with limited spaces."
  • "The parking is a nightmare."

Store Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "We purposely go to Trader Joe's because of the pleasant and joyful vibe."
  • "Spacious inside with wide aisles to keep shoppers moving."
  • "The store is clean and tidy."
  • "Cleaning in between each customer."
  • "The store is always clean and plenty of staff stocking shelves and plenty of registers available."
  • "Always clean, well stocked and very organized."
  • "The store itself is pretty tidy and well stocked."

Cons:

  • "But lately for several times now, the whole place is GLOOMY!"
  • "Navigating the store with a cart is nigh impossible."
  • "The store, however, gives me such an immense amount of anxiety that I can't give this location 5 stars."
  • "Crowded aisles can be hard to navigate."
  • "Parking here can be difficult as the lot is REALLY small."
  • "The parking lot is quirky, but if you come during the off hours there's rarely trouble finding a spot."
  • "The one downside of this location is that the parking lot is terrible."

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