ICYMI: Why Did Trader Joe's Discontinue My Favorite Product?

Inside Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's

Arts, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Food

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Ever walk into your neighborhood TJ’s to find your favorite product is no longer on the shelf? It happens to us, too! A big part of shopping at Trader Joe’s is finding new things to love, and because our stores are small, making room for those new favorites means some old standbys may have to make way. Tune in to the latest in our series of bite-sized episodes, ITJ ICYMI, to get the scoop.

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0:00.0	Hey, Matt. What happened to the peach salsa?
0:03.3	In case you missed it,
0:05.1	Trader Joe's bicep smoky peach salsa,
0:08.3	it was discontinued.
0:10.0	Yeah, I noticed because it's my favorite salsa of all time,
0:14.5	and now I can't buy it.
0:15.6	This is a good topic for another
0:17.4	IcyMI edition of Inside Trader Joe's.
0:20.2	IcyMI in case you missed it.
0:31.2	These mini episodes give us an opportunity
0:33.6	to address some of the questions
0:35.2	our crew members hear from customers most often.
0:37.9	And keep asking the crew loves to answer questions.
0:43.4	Thinking about getting rid of products,
0:45.3	discontinuing products more often than not,
0:48.5	it's not an indictment of the product itself.
0:51.8	What gives?
0:52.8	Well, you know, oftentimes we'll use a phrase
0:55.9	and we probably overly rely on it, slow sales.
1:00.0	What does that really mean?
1:01.8	What it means is that there weren't enough customers
1:04.2	interested in buying the peach salsa
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