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<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWE SAW SOME LONG LINES OUTSIDE EAST SACRAMENTO TRADER JOE\u2019S THIS MORNING, BUT IT WASN\u2019T FOR GROCERIES. IT\u2019S FOR THE STORE\u2019S NEW REUSABLE BAG. THIS IS PART OF THEIR LIMITED EDITION SUMMER FUN COLLECTION. DOZENS OF PEOPLE LINED UP HOURS BEFORE THE STORE OPENED TO GET THEIR HANDS ON ONE OF THOSE INSULATED MINI TOTE BAGS. I WAITED ABOUT 20 MINUTES, SO NOT TOO BAD. I DID GET HERE BEFORE THE STORE OPENED, BUT THE LINE WAS ALREADY WRAPPED AROUND THE BUILDING. A VERY LONG LINE. THIS IS A VERY VALUABLE HOT ITEM RIGHT NOW AND MY KIDS LOVE THEM. THEY USE THEM FOR SCHOOL LUNCHES. I TAKE THEM TO WORK FOR LUNCH AS WELL. THESE BAGS SELL FOR $3. 99 THE STORE\u2019S LIMITED EDITION BAGS HAVE DEVELOPED A LARGE FOLLOWING, THOUGH IN RECENT YEARS, AND SOME OF THEM WILL RESELL F\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Crowds gather at Trader Joe’s in East Sacramento for limited-edition tote bags<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 9:22 PM PDT May 20, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tDozens of shoppers lined up outside Trader Joe’s in East Sacramento Wednesday morning to purchase new reusable insulated mini tote bags from the store’s limited-edition “Summer Fun” collection. “I waited about 20 minutes, so not too bad,” one shopper said. “I did get here before the store opened, but the line was already wrapped around the building.” “They only let you get one striped one. But yeah, it’s a max of three per person,” another shopper said. The bags, priced at $3.99, have developed a large following in recent years, with some reselling on secondary marketplaces for hundreds of dollars.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Dozens of shoppers lined up outside Trader Joe’s in East Sacramento Wednesday morning to purchase new reusable insulated mini tote bags from the store’s limited-edition “Summer Fun” collection. <\/p>\n “I waited about 20 minutes, so not too bad,” one shopper said. “I did get here before the store opened, but the line was already wrapped around the building.” <\/p>\n “They only let you get one striped one. But yeah, it’s a max of three per person,” another shopper said. <\/p>\n The bags, priced at $3.99, have developed a large following in recent years, with some reselling on secondary marketplaces for hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WE SAW SOME LONG LINES OUTSIDE EAST SACRAMENTO TRADER JOE\u2019S THIS MORNING, BUT IT WASN\u2019T FOR GROCERIES. IT\u2019S…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,11273,11198,23615,276,4915,135508,135506,671,121,123,122,135507,9435,826,669,2734,9430,1384],"class_list":["post-325720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-app","tag-crowd","tag-dollar","tag-download","tag-east-sacramento","tag-hundred","tag-large-following","tag-limited-edition-tote-bag","tag-more-coverage","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-secondary-marketplace","tag-shopper","tag-store","tag-subscribe","tag-top-california-story","tag-trader-joe","tag-trader-joes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}