Episode 77: Trader Joe's Goes Back to School with Chocolate and Mustard

Inside Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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When we think about back-to-school, we immediately think of chocolate and mustard. (Doesn’t everyone?) Specifically, we think of Belgian chocolate and Dijon Mustard. Just in time for back-to-school shopping – as well as classes like History, Geography, Chemistry, and Culinary Arts – this episode of Inside Trader Joe’s takes you to the source of these longtime favorites. Travel along with us as we go inside a chocolate factory – outside Brussels – talking to the folks who make some of our favorite chocolate (we’re looking at you, Pound Plus Bars!); and to the very (aromatic) room where the mustard magic happens, getting the inside scoop on how Dijon, France came to be home of the world’s most iconic mustard.

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0:00.0	All right, it's back to school time.
0:03.0	Hey, remember when you had to write an essay about what I did on summer vacation?
0:07.0	That's kind of what this is, but it's a podcast.
0:09.0	Yes, but not so much what we did on summer vacation.
0:12.0	This is a what we did on a summer work trip episode.
0:15.7	It was a little like over the river and through the woods
0:18.2	to vendor visits we go.
0:19.6	Except over the ocean and on some trains.
0:22.2	Yeah, it was totally worth getting squashed in that subway door by the way.
0:26.0	Yeah, that was off the rails.
0:28.0	I mean, Loco, not something you trained for.
0:30.0	Okay, Matt. Even for you, those are bad. I'm not sorry. Let's go inside Trader Joe's. I'm Tara Miller, Director of Words and Phrases and Clauses.
0:48.0	And I'm Matt Sloane, the Culture and Innovation guy at Trader Joe's.
0:51.6	Now when I think about Trader Joe's Back to School products,
0:54.6	well I think about chocolate from Belgium and mustard from France. You do?
0:58.8	Among other things, I mean you can fit so much into a lunch box.
1:02.6	And that's where this podcast is going to Belgium and France.
1:05.6	We joke about traveling to learn about our products and to look for more ideas because, you know,
1:10.1	got to admit it's not a bad part of the gig.
1:12.1	And it is truly key to what we do
1:14.5	at Trader Joe's our product development team goes on what you would call little
1:18.8	adventures or treasure hunts around the world so that every time our customers shop at their neighborhood Trader Joe's,
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