Episode 56: Inside the Trader Joe's Captains' Meeting 2022
Inside Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's
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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Aloha shirts as far as the eye can see, new products for everyone to taste, and So. Much. Energy! It’s the Trader Joe’s Annual Captains’ Meeting, and you have a front row seat, so to speak. Have a listen to find out about our plans for the future, the return of Demo (yes!), your store Captain’s favorite product, and what the heck is a Golden Potsticker Award!
Golden Potsticker Award Winners:
| Store # | Location |
| 8 | Fresno, CA |
| 26 | Hillcrest, San Diego, CA |
| 46 | Orange, CA |
| 59 | Santa Barbara, CA |
| 82 | Reno, NV |
| 85 | Glendale, AZ |
| 100 | San Francisco, CA |
| 101 | Fairfield, CA |
| 135 | Queen Anne Hill, WA |
| 164 | Spokane (North), WA |
| 167 | Albuquerque, NM |
| 211 | Templeton, CA |
| 215 | West Los Angeles, CA |
| 249 | San Juan Capistrano, CA |
| 250 | USC, CA |
| 284 | Summerlin (West), NV |
| 404 | Fort Worth, TX |
| 460 | Tulsa, OK |
| 510 | Boston (Back Bay), MA |
| 519 | Portland, ME |
| 552 | Oceanside, NY |
| 559 | Staten Island, NY |
| 571 | Bridgemarket, NY |
| 637 | Media, PA |
| 654 | Centreville, VA |
| 657 | Willamsburg, VA |
| 663 | Knoxville, TN |
| 678 | Ann Arbor, MI |
| 685 | La Grange, IL |
| 692 | Brentwood, MO |
| 715 | Woodbury, MN |
| 735 | Buckhead, GA |
| 744 | Charlotte (Midtown), NC |
| 781 | Coral Gables, FL |
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Inside Trader Joe's, we're taking our listeners somewhere very few people have gone. |
| 0:06.0 | Very few people who don't normally wear a low-hush shirts and Trader Joe's name tags anyway. |
| 0:12.0 | Only Trader Joe's crew members and more specifically Trader Joe's captains attend the annual captains meeting. |
| 0:18.0 | It's for them. |
| 0:19.0 | It's for them to take in and process and learn and it's for them to take back, back to their store, to share with their crew. |
| 0:27.0 | All the amazing things coming up for the season ahead. |
| 0:30.0 | It's pretty cool. |
| 0:31.0 | From LA Live in downtown Los Angeles, let's go inside Trader Joe's. |
| 0:45.0 | Good morning captains and welcome to Trader Joe's 2022 captains meeting. |
| 0:52.0 | Love your announcer voice, Matt. |
| 0:54.0 | Why thank you, Tara. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Tara Miller, Director of Words and Frazes and Closes. |
| 0:59.0 | And I'm Matt Sloan, the marketing product guy, and Trader Joe's a captain runs the ship. |
| 1:05.0 | It's kind of like a Trader Joe's manager if you had to use real-world terms but way cooler and with more interesting snacks. |
| 1:13.0 | We look forward to seeing all these familiar faces and meeting some new faces every year when we get together. |
| 1:20.0 | And this year it's the first time we've all been together in a while. |
| 1:23.0 | It's pretty great. |
| 1:24.0 | We spend a little bit of time on the past reflecting on our history. |
| 1:28.0 | What we really look to the future to figure out how are we going to chart the course moving forward. |
| 1:34.0 | And we're together to celebrate the amazing work that's been happening in every Trader Joe's store across the country. |
| 1:40.0 | Okay, well you left out one thing. |
| 1:42.0 | What's that? |
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