The Container Store Manifesto
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The Container Store Posts
The Container Store Retailing Philosophy
The Container Store can deliver the best products with the best customer service, but not at the best price.
The Container Store Vendor Relations Philosophy
“You can copy a company two-dimensionally, but you can’t copy its heart and soul." -- KIp Tindell
The Container Store Leadership Philosophy
The company culture at The Container Store is based upon communicating everything with everyone.
The Container Store Selling Philosophy
"We don’t immediately try to sell something to a customer; we can’t, because we don’t know enough about her yet.” -- Kip Tindell
The Container Store Training Philosophy
Astonishingly, full-time employees at The Container Store receive close to 300 hours of paid training in their first year.
The Container Store Hiring Philosophy
Finding great employees isn’t easy for any business. It helps to have the reputation The Container Store has to attract great employees.
Kip Tindell Thinks Outside the Box
The Container Store sells lots of empty boxes. Close to $650 million dollars worth of boxes and other storage stuff in 2011. But if you ask Kip Tindell, CEO and co-founder of The Container Store, he’ll tell you the company sells time more than it does boxes.