Dealer Joe’s execs are clearing the air about whether or not the grocery retailer workers are instructed to flirt with prospects.

Within the newest episode of the Dealer Joe’s podcast, Inside Dealer Joe’s, co-hosts Tara Miller and Matt Sloan welcomed TJ’s president Jon Basalone and chief govt officer Bryan Palbaum to talk concerning the future for the corporate, new merchandise and reply a long-time rumor: Are workers instructed to be flirty or are they simply pleasant?

Whereas chatting concerning the good natured-attitude Basalone and Palbaum search for in workers (known as crew members at Dealer Joe’s), Miller discovered the right time to segue into the subject. “Here is a chance to place one thing to relaxation since you’re saying be real and be good,” she requested. “Are you able to please inform us as soon as and for all, are our crew members instructed to flirt with prospects?”

Each the president and CEO had been emphatic of their reply: completely not.

“Definitively, no,” stated Palbaum, who has been with the corporate for 21 years. “I feel we simply have such a novel atmosphere in our shops that, to enter a Dealer Joe’s retailer and really feel that everybody is genuinely eager about whether or not or not you’re having a great day, in comparison with perhaps different retailers, I might see how that may be misinterpreted.”

Basalone agreed. “Bryan’s proper,” he added. “I imply, you undergo this world, and also you run into so many individuals that are not real, that are not sort to you, that if you stroll into a spot when that is occurring, it looks like, whoa, okay, I feel they’re flirting with me when really, yeah, that is simply what niceness looks like, you already know?”

Whereas prospects may not discover romance on the grocery retailer chain, they will relaxation assured that the friendliness at checkout will not finish anytime quickly. Dealer Joe’s has no plans to do self-checkout.

In a sport of “true or false,” Sloan and Miller requested the execs to reply some rumors concerning the destiny of the shops. Palbaum and Basalone had been fast to answer when requested if self-checkout is coming quickly.

“That’s as false as false may be,” Basalone stated, “as a result of we imagine in individuals and we’re not attempting to do away with our crew members for effectivity sake or regardless of the, I do not know what the explanations are individuals put self-checkout in.”

Questions on drive-thru espresso home windows had been additionally labeled as false, as was the concept for an in-store eating places.