5 AM lines, cleared-out shelves, resale listings climbing into the hundreds. Accounts dedicated to tracking restocks. shoppers racing from store to store, hoping to get lucky...
All of it orbiting a canvas tote from a grocery store.
In our new Plot report, we track over a thousand TikTok and Instagram posts about the Trader Joeās tote bag across six months to understand how a $2.99 bag started behaving like a sneaker drop.