Episode 87: A List for Springtime Shopping at Trader Joe's

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Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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It’s nearly spring. And at Trader Joe’s, that means new products popping up like flower buds after an early thaw. In this episode of Inside Trader Joe’s, we’re getting up close and personal with a baker’s dozen of our favorite new (and returning) things for spring. Looking for Easter candy and treats? You’ll find them here, and you’ll be impressed not only with how they look, but how they taste. A new Mini Sheet Cake that happens to be gluten free? Oh. Yes. Potato chips made with Irish potatoes and butter? Aye. A new blend of greens to elevate your salad game and a pasta sauce that’s simple, elegant, and extraordinarily delicious? Well… yes. Would you believe a wine made with oranges? You should believe, and you should try it. One last thing… no bunnies were harmed in the making of this episode.

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0:00.0	Okay, spring shopping lists.
0:02.1	Wait, I've just been handed an important disclaimer.
0:05.8	No bunnies were harmed in the making of this episode.
0:09.1	Of course they weren't.
0:10.8	Why would you...
0:12.4	Allison, our category manager, heading up the cookie and candy business.
0:16.5	She's going to be here a little bit later.
0:18.2	She'll explain.
0:19.1	Okay, then.
0:19.7	Let's go inside Trader Joe's.
0:30.1	I'm Tara Miller, director of words and phrases and clauses.
0:34.3	And I'm Matt Sloan, the culture and innovation guy at Trader Joe's.
0:38.9	13 items on our spring shopping list episode.
0:42.9	Triskeidecophobia, be damned, let's get started.
0:46.6	We went to Italy to get the full story on Trader Joe's pizza a couple of episodes back.
0:55.0	So let's start with Trader Joe's new Italian-made pasta sauce.
1:01.0	Yes, Delicioso.
1:03.0	What you might notice immediately about this Trader Giotto's Carosugo, Italian tomato basil pasta sauce, is that Italian phrase, which basically means deer sauce, D-E-A-R, dear pasta sauce.
1:19.8	Think of this as our love letter to pasta sauce.
1:23.7	It's made in Italy with Italian grown produce, and the people who make the sauce, they grow the tomatoes.
1:31.7	Yeah, they grow the mimpulia in southern Italy.
1:34.5	Ideal tomato growing climate there.
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