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Podcast: The Produce Retail Podcast
Episode: United Supermarkets business director of floral Bradley Gaines and Tessacorp's Jennie Garbarek
Description: In this third installment of our 2025 floral series, we're delighted to have as our guests Bradley Gaines, business director of floral for United Supermarkets, Market Street and Albertsons Market, and Jennie Garbarek, sales director of mass market, North America, for floral supplier Tessacorp. Our regular listeners will recall that Jennie also has a retail background with stops including Roundy’s, Mariano’s and SpartanNash. In this conversation, Bradley, Jennie and The Produce Retail Podcast host Ashley Nickle discuss best practices for staffing floral departments, from internship programs to hiring criteria to skills to teach. Bradley and Jennie also talk abou...