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RETAIL SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
CULTURE OF AUTONOMY
Hensley says the chain’s employ- ee-owned structure plays a critical role in the successful execution and continual rejuvenation of sustainability ingenuities.
The business model provides a synergistic balance between corporate, chain-wide sustainability directives and supported voluntary programs, giving autonomy and exibility to individual store directors to
enact and customize them.
“As far as autonomy goes, our store
directors make their own decisions on their product assortment, on their pricing, their hiring and their scheduling; everything like
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