If it’s in excel, click on your chart, then right click on your line. You should get a menu that has add trendline as an option. Choose that and you’ll have just a basic linear line. If you want a different kind of line, right click on your trendline and choose format trendline and you can choose something else like moving average or add a forecast to it.
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Trend line! That’s the magic word I didn’t know. Thank you!
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I think I’m bad at shopping at Trader Joe’s. It seems like everything is really expensive for small amounts? The produce looked good but not any better than the Kroger or Albertsons.
What am I missing? Why is everyone so obsessed with it? What should be on my list to get next time I go?
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Their produce is mid, but they have really cheap and tasty frozen food/meal options. They have a lot of delicious snacks as well, but I can’t remember where those fall on the price efficiency scale lol
(Did you go to the one that just opened??)
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I saw a comment recently that Trader Joe’s is a frozen food store with a produce section and that tracks w my experience. We only go a few times a year for treats!
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This has been my experience as well. Anytime I’ve gone in with a list of things I need, all of those things are more expensive than King Soopers or Costco. We don’t really eat frozen/prepared stuff in our house so I’ve never seen the point of that store.
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That’s also been my experience. Their dried mango is cheaper than I’ve seen it elsewhere, and they are a potentially easy source for some more interesting orchids than most other grocery stores stock. I like their little treats but they aren’t cheap.
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Life would be so boring if we all had the same preferences, you know?
Their sourdough bread is the best I’ve had outside of the Bay Area.
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In our experience there are a few things we can get cheaper at Trader Joe’s than elsewhere: natural peanut butter, some nuts (walnuts, almonds), shampoo and conditioner, convenience Indian pouch meals (like the brand Tasty Bites) and there might be a few more I’m forgetting. But otherwise, we don’t shop there to save money but instead to get things we really like (for example, the frozen garlic naan).
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Trader Joe’s is for frozen stuff, which is very good of its kind.
But the seasonal stuff is pretty good - in the spring they have a strawberry pancake mix, and in the fall and pumpkin pancake mix, and my family loves those.
And cheap wine.
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For me Trader Joe’s is for fun snacks which aren’t available other places. It isn’t a place I would go specifically for cheaper stuff (especially not produce) except for nuts and dried fruit.
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Add me to the chorus. Some stuff is priced well, like if you like organic pasture, eggs, and organic grass milk, Trader Joe’s has some of the most competitive prices for those. Plus things like bananas. And then otherwise, we get a lot of frozen staples there. Things that are like one step of prep is done, like they have a frozen peppers and onions mix that is fire roasted that is really great for last minute making a rice barbecue bowl. And then they have just a lot of very fun snacks, that are great for hosting and things like that. They have some really delicious cheeses for good price points too, like they’re unexpected cheddar and their smoked Gouda.
I end up going there fairly regularly and my standing list can include fresh bell peppers, fresh bananas, eggs, milk, string cheese, frozen peppers and onions, frozen artichoke hearts, if they have them, nuts, like hazelnuts, their Carolina Gold, barbecue sauce, their ketchup, their Skipjack tuna, their spices (everything, but the bagel seasoning and furikake), their travel packs of olives, freeze dried strawberries. Off the top of my head!
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Trader Joe’s is solely my snack and fun store! I go like 4x a year and have a couple of staples that I stock up on. And they have great prices on house plants! Some of my favs are the hot & sweet jalapeños, black bean and corn salsa, and the garlic aioli. They have a great selection of tinned fish, too. I like to get seasonal cookies and treats as gifts during the holidays as well. Oh, they have awesome “homemade” style thick cinnamon graham crackers, and ginger snaps!
ETA: the body care is also pretty great. I keep at least 3 bottles of their glycolic acid body butter on hand all the time, it’s amazing for rough skin and it’s $5.99!
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Hazelnuts! I was looking for awhile, and I’ve only been able to find whole hazelnuts at Trader Joe’s.
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Piling on about the frozen foods 
I get frozen roasted corn and a mix of spicy riced cauliflower/onions/peppers that I eat with eggs in the morning, and we love their chicken and mushroom stir fry bag. I’ve tried a few of their other frozen dinners and they’re all pretty dang good.
I’ve also gotten cheap plants there, mostly succulents that I didn’t need and bought anyway.
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I really like the frozen brown rice packets
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Oh also we got all the flowers for our wedding from Trader Joe’s and it was great for that!!
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One more TJs thought from me! I actually love the smaller portion sizes because it’s more in line with how much we eat, but I know your family is a combined 4 feet taller than my family, so the math checks out. We mostly shop there and are spending way less than we were at Sprouts.
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We did the same for our wedding.
Trader Joe’s doesn’t really do sales/discounts so that may be some of the expense issue. Like others have said, there are some things where they’re really well priced (cheese, nuts) and they have great frozen and snack stuff. Their other prices are meh.
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Their foot balm, which is only available in the fall/winter is out favorite… and we buy lots and lots of it.
We go probably 4 or 5 times/year.
When the kids lived in NYC, TJ was the cheapest full service (ish) grocery, so people went there for regular groceries.
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