Goldin worked retail merchandising routes during early COVID to assess safety
Kara Goldin · How I Built Resilience: Kara Goldin of Hint · Apr 1, 2021 · at 14:24
Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of beverage company Hint, discusses managing field merchandising and employee safety concerns during the early COVID-19 lockdowns.
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“What did I do? I put my Lululemons on and my hint jacket on, and I went out to stores, and so I started, I went back to my roots of taking on a route in Marin County, where I live, and I started to really look at what is the situation, because if it really, really got scary in these stores, I didn't want my team to be in that situation”
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