Trader Joe's customers line up around the block to purchase viral item

By Emma Saletta For Dailymail.Com 21:47 16 Oct 2024, updated 18:58 17 Oct 2024

Comments

Comments

Shoppers lined up around the buildings of Trader Joe's locations to pick up a pair of Red & Emerald Mini Insulated Bags.

Instagram user Shannon Fong was one of the many Trader Joe's customers waiting outside to purchase the 'Tote-ally eye-catching' mini bags today.

Fong showed off her new bags in an Instagram video this morning, along with boxes overflowing with the items she also purchased in the store.

'They are so cute and match the big ones so perfectly,' Fong wrote in her video description.

The Red & Emerald Mini Insulated Bags are two of the many viral Trader Joe's items that have blown up social media in recent months, and several shoppers have already listed the products on eBay.

Like its other mini insulated bags, the red and emerald-colored Trader Joe's items are made of material suitable to keep food and drinks cold.

'With their vividly verdant and vermillion shades of candy apple Red and rich, Emerald green, we find that they're especially great for toting cold appetizers or salads to a party, picnic, or day at the park,' reads the product description.

The bags are also good for everyday use, and they will safely carry items from 'point A to point B and back again.'

Trader Joe's added that shoppers interested in the mini bags should pick them up when they can since they were sure to 'fly off the shelves.'

The Red & Emerald Mini Insulated Bags are not available to purchase on the Trader Joe's website, but several resellers listed the bags online for less than $100.

However, those prices are nothing compared to a set of three Mini Insulated Totes for $149.99 earlier this year.

Trader Joe's $3 Mini Canvas Tote Bags were the talk of the internet in March that led to in-store mayhem and booming sales.

Before running out of stock, the grocery store chain had expected good sales but not the amount of popular demand it experienced.

'We had actually hundreds of thousands of bags come in and go out within a week,' Insider Trader Joe's podcast host Matt Sloan said in an episode earlier this year.

'We had no inkling that they would be this exciting, this quickly, for so many customers.'

The mayhem returned in September after Trader Joe's decided to re-release the Mini Canvas Tote Bags for a limited time last month.

The bags, which the company said were 'ideal for smaller shopping trips,' were expected to sell out in several stores within hours.

Now, various Reddit users can't stop talking about the new Mini Insulated Bags and what it was like to purchase them at their local Trader Joe's.

Several commenters revealed there were allegedly no lines at their stores and that they were still stocked with bags.

Others claimed there was a four-bag limit and that lines were wrapped around store buildings in California.

'That's my TJ. I'll have to check on my way home,' a Reddit user wrote in response to a photo taken at a Trader Joe's in New York.

'I guess nobody wants them as much as the mini tote.'

Comments

Comments

Inside tragic Liam Payne's hotel room: A smashed TV, white powder and aluminium foil are seen in...

The 'final' photo of tragic Liam Payne before his fatal plunge: One Direction star returns to his...

Liam Payne's cause of death revealed after tragic plunge: One Direction star had a fractured skull...

Liam Payne may have been 'unconscious or semi-conscious' when he fell to his death from third floor...

Liam Payne 999 call: Listen to panicked Buenos Aires hotel worker requesting 'urgent' help before...

Devastated Niall Horan is seen for first time since Liam Payne's death: One Direction stars were...

Liam Payne's 'devastated' family break silence after tragic death of One Direction star aged 31

Hunt for two mystery women who were with Liam Payne the night before his death: Hotel guest heard...

One Direction pays tribute to Liam Payne: Bandmates say they are 'completely devastated' by star's...

Hunt for dealer 'who gave Liam Payne drugs' as Argentinian media publishes photos of destroyed hotel...

Showbiz website TMZ deletes photos of Liam Payne's dead body in wake of fans' fury

Mother and son are kicked off cruise ship after disgusting act was caught on surveillance video

Simon Cowell in the firing line: X Factor's Katie Waissel takes aim at music industry following Liam...

Heartbreaking moment Rita Ora breaks down on stage just hours after Liam Payne's death while singing...

Revealed: What Biden and Obama said to each other during intense moment at Ethel Kennedy's funeral

Tory councillor's childminder wife is jailed for 31 months for tweeting 'set fire to all the f***ing...