Trader Joe’s donates “100%” of unsold products every day

Trader Joe’s Fighting hunger for everyone, not just their customers.

The grocery store chain donates “100% of the products that go unsold but remains Fit to be enjoyed” every day and from each store, according to the food website. The initiative is part of Trader Joe’s Neighborhood Shares program.

In 2024, then-579 stores across the country-there are 592 stores from September 10, a traders Joe’s representative told People-Donated 98 million pounds remaining food. The tens of millions of pound products were given to more than 2,000 partners daily.

The network of local organizations, including programs such as City Harvest, feeding San Diego, extra food and split surplus, is “constantly evolving.”

The figures for the initiative’s donations in 2025 have not yet been released but a source told people that they will be Posted is January 1, 2026.

Fans have looked at some of the dealers’ properties, including Why the employees call watches and If workers are told to flirt with customersin Inside Trader Joe’s Podcast.

Podcast is hosted to Tara Miller and Matt Sloan explained How the company decides where to open up new places In a section 2024. The detailed how population density and parking space are two main factors.

In the end, it is because “access and ease to get in and out of the traffic pattern,” Sloan said.

Unfortunately, for fans, representations do not help Trader Joe’s decision.

“People are so happy about the prospects for one of our stores that come to their neighborhood that they start a social media campaign, or if they start a letter writing campaign,” Miller said. Sloan then broke the bad news: “While we love the energy and enthusiasm that is often expressed in one of these different social media campaigns … They really don’t have much, if anyone, the impact on what we stop deciding.”