Welcome to the first crossover episode of The Produce Retail Podcast and The Produce Talent Podcast! Our special guest, Ashley Candebat, is the dean of Rouses University. We know that finding and keeping great people is an enormous opportunity for produce retail and for the produce industry more broadly. Rouses Markets, which is experiencing significant growth, is making professional development and engagement a priority. Rouses University is the program they've designed to give their associates room for and a roadmap for growth. Now you might be thinking, "Okay, you've hit all the requisite buzzwords ... but how does it work, exactly?" Ashley fills us in on all the details in this conversation about training and development for now and later.

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This new podcast series is designed to cover all things produce retail: strategy, partnerships, planning, training, leadership, communication, merchandising and beyond. Recent topics include planning and goal-setting for 2022, customer service, creating theater in the produce department, managing shrink, deepening partnerships through field trips, and much more.

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