Tony Hody

They'll cause a lot of speed bumps for that sort of thing.

But, you know, in the end of the day, there, there is a way to, you know, really interview and profile and get a better candidate to reduce attrition.

You know, you can use gift cards, you know, to let them know, hey, we're not going to waste your time.

If you come in and shadow us for a shift or half a shift, you know, we're going to give you a gift card as an incentive or a reward for completing that shadow day.

But I think it's a wise thing to do so that you don't go through all the trouble of onboarding somebody and then find out when they actually get out in the field, this isn't for me.

You know, we have retail stores with showrooms inside them in some of the big box stores like Walmart, like Meijer grocery store, you know, Costco, all those types of things.

And we love to have our interviews at those stores because we can say, well, this is what the job is.

Um, you know, it's December.

Let me see a handout, three candy canes and engage some people shopping.

Um, I want to, I want to see if this is something you feel comfortable doing something you like.

And, um,

you know, go about it that way so that you're not just bringing somebody in talking about the job, giving the opportunity to see the job, giving the opportunity to walk the walk.

So the bigger the ticket, the more likely you're going to want to be in Costco versus Walmart.

But Walmart has some really nice stores depending upon where they're located.

You just have to kind of do your homework, drive around the parking lot, check out the cars, take a look at the shoppers.

Are they homeowners or are they tenants?

You need to be fishing in the right pond.

Well, leadership number one, you know, having good lead by example leaders that, you know, can train on how to do it, recognize when people are not doing it properly, people that have kind of grown up through the ranks, right?

That's number one.

Number two is, you know, having the ability to find good events.