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Competitive Wages, Employee Lounge with a View, Free Food, Community Spirit: How This Grocery Store Built a Winning Team

Competitive Wages, Employee Lounge with a View, Free Food, Community Spirit: How This Grocery Store Built a Winning Team

  • Jeff Rice
  • Jackson Whole Grocer

As an independent, locally owned grocery store, our Purpose at Jackson Whole Grocer is to bring community together through food. Our alignment with Evergreen® principles sets us apart in our industry, and we’re proud of the programs and practices that keep that Purpose front and center in our business, our town, and our region.

I didn’t start out in the grocery business. I spent my early career in sales and then founded and acquired several businesses before purchasing an existing family-owned grocery store in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I had been seeking a new business opportunity that would keep me close to my family after years of work that required a pretty relentless pattern of planes, trains, and automobiles. I wanted to do something in my community—and for my community.

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