Trader Joe and my Sidekick
Our very own St. Louis Park Trader Joe's opened this week. I had been hearing about that store for so long, about all the great organic produce and meat, about all the wonderful Trader Joe products that weren't available to us here in Minnesota. The cheap wine, the chocolate-covered candies out the ying-yang...oh my!
Tonight I packed Sophie up after Julie went to bed and drove over there to see for myself. The only thing I really needed out of the trip was a single red bell pepper for the Kung Pao chicken I plan to make for dinner in a couple of days. The store is so picked over from all the crazy nutcases (like me) checking it out that they didn't even have a freakin' bell pepper in sight. It's an interesting store. I think they have some great deals on some stuff, although it was so crowded that it was hard to think straight. There is no way I could do a weekly grocery shopping trip there because they don't have anywhere close to all the stuff I use on a regular basis. But that's not what they're famous for, really. It seems to me like the store is meant for young, childless working people who want pre-made meals and only cook from scratch on rare occasions. That's just my first impression. It's so hard to tell because everything was drastically picked over.
Here are a couple pictures from my Sidekick phone - low resolution, but you can probably tell the lines to check out were pretty long.
Speaking of Sidekicks, there are rumours all over the internet that the Sidekick III is coming out in the next couple of months - maybe even sometime in June. I can't help being a little excited about this. Supposedly, there will be a full 1-megapixel camera in there (still not great, but at least in the barely-printable range), Bluetooth technology, and an MP3 player. It would be really nice to have a wireless headset and to not have to carry a seperate device for my MP3. I'm always digging around the bottom of my bag for that cute little blue thing Joe bought me for my birthday. I'm just hoping they cut a deal for the SKII users like they did during the last upgrade rollout. We got to trade in the original Sidekicks for a greatly-reduced price on the IIs. It's hard to remember what the original one was like, but I remember I loved it and I'm still loving the new version. Almost as much as the pastries I picked up at Trader Joe's tonight.
Tonight I packed Sophie up after Julie went to bed and drove over there to see for myself. The only thing I really needed out of the trip was a single red bell pepper for the Kung Pao chicken I plan to make for dinner in a couple of days. The store is so picked over from all the crazy nutcases (like me) checking it out that they didn't even have a freakin' bell pepper in sight. It's an interesting store. I think they have some great deals on some stuff, although it was so crowded that it was hard to think straight. There is no way I could do a weekly grocery shopping trip there because they don't have anywhere close to all the stuff I use on a regular basis. But that's not what they're famous for, really. It seems to me like the store is meant for young, childless working people who want pre-made meals and only cook from scratch on rare occasions. That's just my first impression. It's so hard to tell because everything was drastically picked over.
Here are a couple pictures from my Sidekick phone - low resolution, but you can probably tell the lines to check out were pretty long.
Speaking of Sidekicks, there are rumours all over the internet that the Sidekick III is coming out in the next couple of months - maybe even sometime in June. I can't help being a little excited about this. Supposedly, there will be a full 1-megapixel camera in there (still not great, but at least in the barely-printable range), Bluetooth technology, and an MP3 player. It would be really nice to have a wireless headset and to not have to carry a seperate device for my MP3. I'm always digging around the bottom of my bag for that cute little blue thing Joe bought me for my birthday. I'm just hoping they cut a deal for the SKII users like they did during the last upgrade rollout. We got to trade in the original Sidekicks for a greatly-reduced price on the IIs. It's hard to remember what the original one was like, but I remember I loved it and I'm still loving the new version. Almost as much as the pastries I picked up at Trader Joe's tonight.
posted by Shelly Kang at 2:18 PM
1 Comments:
Oh my, I thought weekends at Trader Joes were bad, I've never seen anything like that! Wowee! It's worth returning midweek when things have calmed down a bit. They have some really, truly terrific stuff.
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