ICYMI: What's Up With Trader Joe's Parking Lots

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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If there’s a question we get more than “When are all the holiday products coming back?” it’s definitely “What’s up with your parking lots?” We get it. They’re small. Which kind of makes sense when you think about it. Which we do. A lot. Tune in to the latest in our series of bite-sized episodes, ITJ ICYMI, to find out everything you ever wanted to know (and let’s be honest, probably a whole lot more) about Trader Joe’s parking lots.

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0:00.0	Here's a tweet, Trader Joe should host a concert series in their parking lots.
0:05.0	Here is, how did one of you not tell me there was a Trader Joe's in my neighborhood with
0:09.8	a parking lot?
0:11.4	The inside of my brain is like a Trader Joe's parking lot.
0:14.6	Wow.
0:15.6	It's a whole world of like, haiku tweets.
0:18.5	This is a good topic for another ICYMI edition of Inside Trader Joe's.
0:23.0	It's another ICYMI, mini episode.
0:33.0	These mini episodes give us an opportunity to address some of the questions our crew members
0:37.5	hear from customers most often.
0:39.6	And keep asking.
0:40.6	They're really good at answering them.
0:42.7	Matt, what is up with our parking lots?
0:46.0	Like a lot of things related to Trader Joe's, this can be traced back to the very first
0:50.9	location, the Oroio Parkway store in Pasadena, which has had and still very much has a
0:57.1	challenging parking lot.
0:59.0	And by that I mean it's small and it's busy.
1:02.2	And that size factor, it's small.
1:05.3	And the busyness factor, lots of people parking cars, well those are the two reasons that
1:10.0	our parking lots can be, well, a bit challenging.
1:14.6	Our stores are small.
1:16.0	Even our newer stores which are significantly larger than that original store, Oroio Parkway
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