Episode 108: Hey East Pasadena, What's In Your Trader Joe's Shopping Cart
Inside Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Inside Trader Joe's, we're taking you inside our customers' shopping carts to find out what keeps them coming back to Trader Joe's again and again. For this edition of our Customer Cart Conversations, we go to Trader Joe's number 32 in East Pasadena, California. Captain Jadez gets up close and personal with the contents of customers' carts, with questions about favorites. Along the way, we get some insights into how Trader Joe's brings a little joy and deliciousness into their busy lives. We even talk to some Crew Members who share their go-to product recommendations for customers (and podcast listeners!). What's in YOUR cart?
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| 0:00.0 | We talk a lot about Trader Joe's on this podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Well, it is called Inside Trader Joe's. |
| 0:06.0 | True. You know, it's also fun to get out and talk to our customers. |
| 0:10.0 | Yes, yes, it is. About Trader Joe's. |
| 0:13.0 | Let's go Inside Trader Joe's. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Tara Miller, Director of words and phrases and clauses. |
| 0:25.5 | And I'm Matt Sloan, the culture and innovation guy at Trader Joe's. |
| 0:29.6 | And I'm Jadis, captain of Trader Joe's Store 32 in East Pasadena, California. |
| 0:34.4 | Hi, Tara. |
| 0:34.9 | Hi, Matt. |
| 0:35.3 | How are things going at the mothership in Monrovia? |
| 0:37.7 | Well, things are great, Jada's. Busy, tasting things, working on things, figuring out how to get more |
| 0:44.3 | of the stuff that people love. Are you ready to talk to some customers, Jadis? Of course. I do that |
| 0:49.0 | every day. Well, think of this as just like any other day, except that you've got a microphone. |
| 0:53.4 | One of the questions we like to ask on the podcast is, |
| 0:57.5 | What's in your cart? |
| 0:59.6 | Yes, that's it. |
| 1:00.8 | That is so cool. |
| 1:01.8 | So does that happen any time one of us says, what's in your cart? |
| 1:06.9 | No, you have to. |
| 1:08.5 | Let me try. |
| 1:09.4 | Jadis, show Matt how it's done. |
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