Great store with great products. Anyone that I share TJ's products with ends up loving them as well. Staff is always ready to help locate an item. read more

Love Trader Joe's! The employees are usually cheery and helpful. The selection of organic and natural foods at reasonable prices are a big draw. The other is the selection of unusual foods such as cookie butter (similar to Biscoff spread), truffle and cheese flatbread, sea salt caramels, and frozen orange chicken. It's actually fun to shop for things you don't find in other supermarkets. A bit crowded sometimes but that's a testimony to their popularity. read more

It's not often I will drive more than 10 minutes for groceries, I guess I'm spoiled because I can remember spending a lot more time getting to a store not so long ago. To drive to Sarasota with the primary reason of visiting a supermarket must say something about the lure of Trader Joe's. It's not even the Two Buck Chuck I'm buying after discovering Winking Owl a lot closer. There is just something about this chain that makes me want to keep visiting and even seeking them out if I'm in Alexandria, Brookline or Bellingham. So if you are passing stop in for some spicy dried Mango, a really good frozen curry selection, cheeses that you don't see at Publix and if you have to, a bottle of Charles Shaw's finest read more

Gotta love trader joes, the best prices and the friendliest staff. I can't wait till they bring back the peppermint Jo joes! Be careful while parking here as the in and out gets slammed busy here! read more

Always friendly staff, great finds, and reasonable prices. You can always count on TJ's for carrying all the mainstream food trends. You can't go wrong with their TJ brand items either. Will continue to shop there. read more

Love Trader Joe's! So happy they finally opened one semi-close to me. I travel about 45mins-1hour but I stock up on what I need so I usually only make the trip once a month. They make healthy living easy and cheap. Their products are much cheaper than any Whole Foods or health market I've been too. I practically live off their gluten-free pasta. Definitely worth checking out, especially if you're in the area. read more

Sick and tired of Whole foods rip off pricing. Can eat for half as much here. Not quite as organic but plenty of good stuff and I can eat healthy here for less. I don't shop at crappy grocery stores with industrial garbage like Winn Dixie, Barf!! Trader Joe's is a California Original form Pasadena and I have been shopping here since the 80's. It is consistent, wholesome and a non corporate junk food place, making it an oasis in a desert of main stream American big Agra grocery stores. read more

Awesome! Looking forward to non-season to shop there again. Parking is a nightmare but store itself is amazing. Fresh cut flowers, cheap only in price wine, gourmet quick healthy foods, friendly helpful staff. I love this store. read more

Always a busy store, but worth it if you go at the right time. Great deals on food plus you can find healthy options that you won't find at some of the other grocery stores. My only complaints are that the parking lot can be hard to get in and out of, and often the price of meats are higher here than at other grocery stores. read more

Very nice specialty market with excellent choice of pre-cooked food. Also nice wuality selection of moderately priced wines and beer. Great little selection of packaged fully cooked meats and substitutes along back right wall going in: Mexican smoked pork+, Sliced pancetta, other Italian+, thin rice noodles, Korean pork belly+, just a few examples. I really like their frozen shrimp toast, see pic. Excellent dessert selection but different from supermarkets. Examples: pear tarte, baklava, choclate lava... Highly competitive $. read more

I,m a long time customer, just like to know if you have Raclette Cheese yet, or wen it comes in, thank you, Margit

Trader Joe's needs to have its employees work on their customer service. I had a friend who shopped there on Valentines Day and had her 8 year old daughter ask if they could get a couple of heart shaped balloons to place on a memorial for her sister who was tragically taken away from us recently. The mother tried to buy them and was tersely informed by an employee that wouldn't be possible since they let the air out and reuse them the next year. I won't be shopping at this facility if this is how they treat valued members of our community. read more

This place is awesome! I've heard about trader joes for years, but have never been to one. Where I'm from there are no trader joes. I didn't know what to expect. I thought it may be like whole foods, which I think is over rated and severely over priced. Boy was I wrong! There I such a diverse amount of unique, healthy food that you can't find in other grocery stores. There are great snacks for kids. My son sampled the trade joes yogurt stars and loved them. The meats are organic, as well as the milk, and other foods. There is different types if ethnic foods. Pre packaged healthy food, that you never see anywhere else. The staff was genuinely friendly, you could tell they enjoyed working there. My son, who is two, said hi about 50 times during our trip. The staff was friendly and said hi back every time! That means a lot. Very satisfied and pleasantly surprised by the store. Our new grocery store! read more

My favorite thing at Trader Joe's is their ginger marinaded cod in the frozen section. It is always a winner. My only issue at this store is the long lines at check out. Seems like they should be able to get people checked out faster. Maybe open up a self checkout for those of us who are under 55 years old. read more

I love this place, only downside is there aren't more locations as Publix has a stranglehold on the Sarasota area...

Trader Joe's is awesome! They have great quality food and really good prices. Every single employee I have come into contact with is always friendly and extremely helpful. I love that everyday they have something for you to sample to get you hooked on another one of their fabulous products. The only down side is the fact that it is usually very crowded, but that's because it's soo good.I have found that if you go in the evening, like around 7 or 8 it's not so bad. read more

I love trader Joe's. I always come home with a lot of food for my money. Everything is non g m o . Friendly helpful staff. Very grateful for this store. read more

I have been waiting 5 years since I moved from CA to go to Trader Joe's!!! I was so excited I went there for my birthday! Not kidding! Prices are fantastic and I love the Trader Joe's products. The parking is not wonderful but it is so worth it to have Joe's back in my life :) read more

We love this store.....pink shrimps are my husband's favorite, while I lust for the nuernberger bratwurst......so good. There is plenty of parking behind the store......the people are friendly and the prices are right! You must try the south african smoke seasoning..... read more

Great shopping fun....GMO free foods,quick checkout,friendly workers,great variety.....my wife and I live 10 minutes from the store will be regulars...healthy..... read more

Trader Joe's Sarasota: They use dirty used paper bags from other companies to pack your fresh food. They don't even ask if it is okay. When I informed the store manager that I thought this was a bad practice, she did not even seem to care. I believe in recycling but this is wrong. Spreading germs, etc. No stars was not an option this is why they get one star. read more

How can a grocery store be a fun place to shop? Yet, it is. A great wine selection including French wines for snobs like me. My only sour note was the French Roast K-cups.....tasted more like burned coffee than good coffee. But, if I don't make regular visits to Trader Johanns I miss it. read more

This place is too small, overcrowded and not much of a selection. I am not sure what all the hype is about for trader joes. Most of the produce is prepackaged, Very little is fresh, most of this food you can get at publix or Walmart for that matter.. Organic and natural not so much...sure they have a few items here and there but certainly nothing to rave about. read all the labels because there is some misunderstanding that all the products here are without transfats and artificial ingredients. I just can't figure out what exactly what they are. I wouldn't waste my time again read more

Tuesday Afternoon My wife and I had shopped at Trader Joe's after my doctor's appt. We purchased several items, however we had planned on seeing a movie, we planned on stopping back after getting some other items including frozen items . As I pulled into the lot, something happened to the shifting of the gears. It showed reverse, could not change gears, could not take out keys. I worked with it while wife went into store. When I could not fix, I went to store, saw a person whom I later found out to be Hugh, He came out to help me, then went in ,checked computer,found it to be gear linkage,he attempted to fix it for me, decided to wait on wrecker.Now my phone was dying, again,help from the workers at the coffee, charged my phone, I stated AAA would call back, they made arrangements with Captain Camille to charge phone and take call if AAA did call, I returned to car. Having been in the service business myself for 40 years, I was more than just impressed. Trader Joe's has some great employees, always willing to help especially Hugh, the two at the coffee(sorry didn't get names) and Captain Camille Wignall.(who attended a University in our home state of Indiana)Thanks so much. Fred L Allman read more

My husband who has always loved traders joes just came home very angry. He was in line with a man in front and a lady waiting behind. He went to put his basket down and was told by the girl behind the counter that he had not put it down quickly enough and he would have Togo to the back of the line . The man in front of him said that my husband was next in line and so did the lady behind him. Did not change the girls mind told him to go to the back of the line . My husband gave the basket to the girl and told her she needed to find a differnt job . This should not have happened . We will be a while before coming back to that store. read more

Today was my first visit to the Sarasota trader joes location. It was packed, as expected, being only the 3rd weekend it is open. People were very pleasant though as we shuffled our cart down the aisles. Tjs did not disappoint. We found all of our faves, frozen chicken meatballs and skewers, 100 cal dark chocolate bars, spicy black bean dip, an of course a great stock of two buck chuck. I also tried a few new things, Including a sushi variety pack. I ate it for dinner tonight and I was quite a fan. I don't normally like grocery store sushi, but this was fresh and delish. My only complaint about tjs was the checkout process. For as busy as the store is right now every cashier should have a bagger, but not even half did and there was nobody to direct traffic in the lines, so the 100 or so people in line to checkout frequently got confused and crossed over. I am sure they will straighten this out the longer they are open and I will probably continue to drive the hour plus to Sarasota until a Tampa store opens someday! read more

Went there to see what the hype was about. Over rated and over hyped. Much of the frozen or prepared food is from out of USA and not to be trusted as for sanitary or other preparation. No real values except for the the El Cheapo wines. Not a single scale in the place that I could find so a pear for 69 cents may or may not be economical. If you want to show off that you have Trader Joe stuff in your home, then this is the place. Otherwise stick to Publix, Fresh Market or if you want strange go to ALDI ! If you really want quality meat and produce, head a little further down the road to Costco and share with a friend. read more

Please hurry and open one in Tampa. When I head home to Rhode Island, my 3 visits to the Warwick store are just great. very large selection of many many items, many specific only to the T J s brand. read more

I shopped at Trader Joes shortly after they opened in Sarasota and everybody was friendly and helpful. That turned out to be short lived. After shopping there weekly for several months I found their employees to be increasingly, rude arrogant and even hostile. The final straw was my last experience when I asked a woman employee if they carried quinoa pasta and showed me something entirely different yet called it quinoa. When I pointed that out she screamed quinoa,quinoa,and finally QUINOA at the top of her lungs. As I left the store I noticed a very old man (late 80's) who appeared to be a stroke victim ask one of the cashiers a question. She responded by screaming at him for daring to interrupt her while she was checking someone out. This was my third and final experience of this sort at Trader Joes. When I called to complain and asked for Linda Moffa, the store "captain"/manager, the employee who answered the phone stated that they have no manager and refused to acknowledge Linda Moffa's existence. If you don't mind shopping at a store that lies about carrying toxic GMO products, encourages their employees to treat customers with absolute hostility , by all means shop there. I will return to Publix where NO ONE has treated me with disrespect in 10 years. read more

I tend to buy my groceries towards the end of the evening when there's less of a crowd. They are usually restocking for the following day so I am always able to find what I need and the employees here are very friendly and always willing to help when I have questions or need help locating something. read more

Most friendly grocery store! They have different and delicious items in addition to the staples. Pricing is very reasonable...less than Publix and more than Walmart. read more

Soo in love with Trader Joes! The staff is always super friendly and very helpful!

Who doesn't love Trader Joe's? Great quality. And great prices. And if you want to see an interesting, younger, attractive crowd in Sarasota, this is the place to shop! read more

This was my first experience of shopping at Trader Joe's I found the selection of products amazing especially the wine department. The car park is small and all ways full but I found a large car park right behind the store completely empty. read more

Giving one star because no stars is not an option. Wrote this review in August but somehow it was deleted. Trader Joe's Sarasota. Fl uses the unsanitary practice of recycyling other businesses used shopping bags. On a shopping trip in August my fresh bread and vegetables were put in a very dirty Red Lobster Shopping Bag. When I got home and took bag out of car - bag ripped - items went all over the floor. Called the store, manager thought the whole thing was funny. I understand recyclying - but I do not understand using dirty germy bags. The policies of this store are disgusting. read more

Love this place, Always clean and a great atmosphere to shop at. Our family has shopped at there locations up North and we are glad to see them in Sarasota, FL. read more

Half the price of Publix. Pumpkin pancake and waffle mix out of this world delicious. Fresh produce, organics, and wine selection superior to Publix. Employees very friendly and helpful. Little kid shopping carts make shopping with young children fun. read more

I am impressed and pleased with the experience of shopping at Trader Joe's. From the time that you enter the store there is a presentation that makes shopping a pleasure. I no longer have to read each label and count my pennies as I shop. I have made this the one stop shop for my weekly groceries. From flowers to fresh produce to dairy and frozen foods it is merely a matter of choice. I am a diabetic and for years hated going to the store because I would have to focus on healthy and avoid all those impulse foods. I now purchase salads for a couple of days, processed luncheon meat and frozen food entrees as a matter of choice knowing it will be tasty and healthy. This has become my one stop shop for all my grocery and household needs., In a short period of time I have started using the laundry detergent, dish detergent, cleaning products, tooth paste and of course I now stock wine for company (I am limited in my consumption because of diabetes) but feel comfortable in stocking a variety for friends,. Truly this is a good shopping experience for the conscientious minded person, read more