I Stole Apples From Trader Joe’s🛒🍎

I live about equal distance between a Whole Foods going in one direction, and a Trader Joe’s in the other direction.

I’m a customer of both stores.

Somewhat inconvenient for me is that each store offers something that the other does not.

Both have organic apples and organic bananas, which I eat a lot of — that means frequent return trips, as they only last a week or so. You can’t buy 100 bananas and be good for the month.

Whole Foods is stronger than the produce department; they have organic spinach that Trader Joe’s does not offer at all.

Trader Joe’s, on the other hand, has an amazing private label organic bread that Whole Foods can’t compete with.

Thus, I must visit or order from each store individually.

Whole Foods has a better and larger variety of organic apples; in the fall months, you can find 10 different types of apple in a Whole Foods. Trader Joe’s usually only has two or three types, and only one is organic. Increasingly, however, TJ’s has better-quality organic bananas than Whole Foods. WF bananas have been increasingly disappointing lately.

Last week, I made an early morning trip to Trader Joe’s to get that great bread, plus some organic bananas and apples.

I got home and realized that some of the groceries I’d paid for were missing.