Episode 28: Trader Joe's Takes You Inside The Tasting Panel Today

Inside Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Even in these times of constant change, there’s one thing that’s remained constant, and that’s our commitment to innovating and developing new products to bring to our stores. We’ve made some adjustments to the way our Tasting Panel meets – who knew video conference tasting could be a thing? – but the basic function of the panel remains the same today as it’s ever been… making sure we’re bringing you delicious tastes from around the globe, and offering them at great values, every day. In this episode of Inside Trader Joe’s, we’re taking you inside the Tasting Panel, in today’s format. We’ll talk about how the changes have impacted product development, and we’ll hear about some new initiatives we’ve put in place to help us find vendors who might not have had access to our Tasting Panel process in days past.

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0:00.0	Mmm, this tastes good.
0:01.8	What is it? Something new coming to Trader Joe's?
0:04.3	From the Trader Joe's mother ship in Manrovia, California.
0:07.4	Let's go inside Trader Joe's.
0:17.2	On this episode, we take you someplace that very few ever get to visit.
0:22.0	To the Wookie Hole Caves where cheese is aged in England.
0:25.6	No, no, no, that was it episode 20.
0:27.6	To the beauty stores of South Korea.
0:30.5	No, no, that was episode 9.
0:33.6	To the annual captains meeting.
0:36.2	17 episode 17. Give up.
0:39.4	To some top secret Trader Joe's tasting panel.
0:43.9	Exactly.
0:45.4	We thought it'd be interesting to spend an entire episode tasting.
0:49.6	We wish you could taste some of the things we've been tasting.
0:53.2	Then you'd know why we voted to approve some of those products.
0:57.6	And you might understand why we sent a few back to the drawing board.
1:02.1	So Matt, can you explain the tasting panel process?
1:05.3	I mean, who's there and what are people doing?
1:07.9	What we have as tasting panel panelists is a cross section of Trader Joe's crew members.
1:14.6	That's important.
1:16.4	There's no vendors, there's no outside the fold.
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