Episode 67: Inside the Trader Joe's Holiday Tasting Panel

Inside Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Before most of the world has even packed away its holiday decorations, Trader Joe’s is busy developing new products for the following year’s holiday season. How do we decide which products you’ll see in stores during the holidays? Our Tasting Panel is at the heart of it, and in this episode of Inside Trader Joe’s, we’re taking you inside the Holiday Tasting Panel, a days-long event where our product developers put forth their best ideas for future holiday fare, and The Panel tastes and questions and ponders… and ultimately comes to consensus on which products will fill our shelves in the holiday season ahead. As an added bonus, we revisit the origins of one of our most beloved holiday sweet treats – Jingle Jangle – and chat with suppliers making a couple of this year’s new creations.

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0:00.0	Well, well, would you look at that calendar?
0:03.6	November, already.
0:05.6	The holidays are here at Trader Joe's.
0:09.2	Well, of course they're always here, really.
0:11.4	Now, we love the holidays, and it's a good thing because developing
0:15.1	holiday products happens year round. You know it's too bad we didn't record
0:19.8	some of that process for the podcast. But we did.
0:23.4	Oh, that's what those lavolier microphones were for.
0:26.6	This will be a good episode.
0:28.7	Let's go inside Trader Joeoves. Joves. I'm Tara Miller, Director of Words and Phrases and Clauses.
0:42.4	And I'm Matt Sloane, the culture and innovation guy at Trader Joe's.
0:46.2	You know, way back in January of this year,
0:48.7	even before the tree and decorations were down at our house,
0:51.9	the Trader Joe's crew here at the
0:53.6	Mothership in Monrovia, California had a few long days of tasting holiday
0:58.4	products. Now tasting holiday food is hard work and somebody's got to do it.
1:04.4	We'll replay some of that in a moment, but first a special guest.
1:09.4	Santa?
1:10.4	No, no, no, no, no, it's Bill from our Jingle Jangle supplier in Baltimore.
1:14.5	It just wouldn't feel like the holidays without Trader Joe's Jingle
1:18.5	Are you there, Bill?
1:19.5	Yes, I'm here.
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