--- title: This Is America's Favorite Supermarket description: Yet again, Trader Joe's has been named as the best supermarket in the land by grocery shoppers, in a survey that factors in cleanliness, service, speed of checkout, and overall value. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2015-05-13T10:30:26.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T05:50:00.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - deals - Food & Drink - groceries - Shopping - Supermarkets word_count: 289 canonical: https://money.com/trader-joes-favorite-groceries/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** Money may earn a commission when you click on the products and services below. Opinions are our own, but compensation and in-depth research determine where and how they appear. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/) about how we make money. ![Robin Gallo (center) of North Palm Beach attended the opening on the new Trader Joe's store in Palm Beach Gardens store Friday, September 19, 2014. ''I got here at 6am and was the first in line, '' she said. ''I am using half a vacation day for this.](https://img.money.com/2015/05/150512_em_amerfavsupermarket.jpg?crop=260px%2C412px%2C1370px%2C771px&quality=85) *The opening on the new Trader Joe's store in Palm Beach Gardens store in Florida on Friday, September 19, 2014.* Trader Joe's may be known for its small stores, but it would be understandable if the grocery chain was getting a big head. For the third year in a row, TJ's has been named by consumers as their overall favorite supermarket in a survey conducted by [Market Force Information](http://www.marketforce.com/). Survey participants are asked to rate grocery chains on attributes like Courteous Service and One-Stop Shopping, and Market Force compiles the data into what it calls a Composite Loyalty Index, meant to gauge overall consumer satisfaction and the likelihood of recommending the retailer to others. Trader Joe's may not be the go-to spot for one-stop shopping, but for the past few years, it has ranked at or near the top of shopper ratings for attributes such as Courteous Service, Inviting Atmosphere, Low Prices, Cleanliness, and Fast Checkouts. That's given the grocery chain the top ranking three years and running. Publix's high scores for courteous employees, speedy checkouts, and cleanliness helped the Florida-based supermarket chain nab the #2 slot in the Market Force study. The third-highest grocery chain, meanwhile, is Aldi, the exceptionally low-price, no-frills, generic-brand [sibling of Trader Joe's](http://business.time.com/2013/07/29/how-two-german-owned-sister-supermarket-brands-became-hot-trendsetters-in-the-u-s/). [WinCo Foods](http://business.time.com/2013/08/07/meet-the-low-key-low-cost-grocery-chain-being-called-wal-marts-worst-nightmare/), another emerging low-price chain, and Costco received the highest ratings for value alongside Aldi. This past spring, [*Consumer Reports'* study](http://pressroom.consumerreports.org/pressroom/2015/04/walmart-supercenter-still-among-lowest-rated-grocers-in-latest-survey-fresh-high-quality-produce-store-made-meals-a-top-co.html) on the nation's best supermarkets also placed Trader Joe's and Publix in the top three, though it named Wegmans as the overall best grocery chain. (Wegmans wasn't featured in the Market Force survey.) One other notable nugget from both surveys is that Walmart is singled out for two reasons: It is the biggest and [most visited](http://www.marketforce.com/press-releases/item/market-force-study-finds-trader-joes-is-consumers-favorite-grocery-store/) of all grocery stores, and it receives the [lowest ratings from shoppers](https://money.com/walmart-lowest-rated-groceries/). *Read next: [Former Trader Joe’s Exec Opens Super Cheap Nonprofit Supermarket](http://money.us/1GnkR8j)* ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/trader-joes-favorite-groceries/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Places to Travel", "item": "https://money.com/places-to-travel/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "This Is America's Favorite Supermarket" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/trader-joes-favorite-groceries/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/trader-joes-favorite-groceries/", "name": "This Is America's Favorite Supermarket", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-05-13T10:30:26.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/trader-joes-favorite-groceries/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/trader-joes-favorite-groceries/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-16T05:50:00.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "This Is America's Favorite Supermarket", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/05/150512_em_amerfavsupermarket.jpg?crop=260px%2C412px%2C1370px%2C771px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "150512_EM_AmerFavSupermarket" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-05-13T10:30:26.000Z", "description": "Yet again, Trader Joe's has been named as the best supermarket in the land by grocery shoppers, in a survey that factors in cleanliness, service, speed of checkout, and overall value.", "abstract": "Yet again, Trader Joe's has been named as the best supermarket in the land by grocery shoppers, in a survey that factors in cleanliness, service, speed of checkout, and overall value.", "@id": "https://money.com/trader-joes-favorite-groceries/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-16T05:50:00.000Z", "wordCount": 289, "keywords": [ "deals", "Food & Drink", "groceries", "Shopping", "Supermarkets" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "World Tourism rankings", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings" ] } ] } ] } ```