Episode 72: It's Springtime for Shopping List at Trader Joe's

Inside Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Ah, spring. Birds singing, trees blooming, and products arriving, at your neighborhood Trader Joe’s. In this episode of Inside Trader Joe’s, we’re getting up close and personal with some of our favorite new and returning products for spring. Chocolate Donut Holes? OMD yes. Orange Wine? We spend some time with our resident wine expert to talk about wine of many colors. We’ll take a peek at – and a taste of – Piquant Popcorn. Can we talk about the Cinnamon Twist Danish Pastry? Yes we can, and yes we do, with our Bakery Category Manager. There’s always something new, delicious, and exciting at your neighborhood Trader Joe’s – this episode is loaded with all of these. Have a listen, then make your own springtime list and pay a visit to your neighborhood store...

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0:00.0	14 items on our spring shopping list episode.
0:04.0	We have some products that are entirely new.
0:06.5	Wait, um, this 13 on this list.
0:09.8	13.
0:10.8	Yep, nope, 12.
0:13.0	Some of these new spring products are selling out really quickly.
0:16.0	This podcast may be over before it even starts.
0:19.0	Now 11.
0:20.0	You ready?
0:21.0	No.
0:22.0	So let's go. Inside Trader Joe's. I'm Tara Miller, Director of Words and Phrases and Clauses.
0:35.0	And I'm Matt Sloane, the Culture and Innovation guy at Trader Joe's.
0:39.0	Okay, Matt, help me out here. Why would Trader Joe's sell out of new products? Isn't it like retail
0:45.2	101 to keep products that customers want in stock?
0:48.2	Yes, and we do exist to sell things and selling things is what we do. We would rather sell things than have things to be completely honest.
0:58.0	A lot of retailers get paid to have stuff. They get paid for that space on their shelves. We don't do that. And I think one of the
1:05.2	reasons that a lot of our stuff, especially our kind of limited edition stuff, comes in and out so quickly,
1:11.1	is because it represents such a great value.
1:14.3	And that value really comes from a business model that is free from extraneous
1:20.1	distractions, sources of revenue different from just ringing up a can of corn at the
1:26.0	register. We have one place and one way in which we make money by selling great
1:30.4	products and that's it. It's the Trader Joe's way.
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