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  • Careers with Heart: Community Relations

    In our new monthly blog series “Careers with Heart” we’ll be looking at a variety of people throughout The Container Store to show the many different aspects of retail and how they all work together. Our first conversation is with Lindsey Lott, our Marketing and Community Relations Manager. How long have you worked for The Container Store? 15 years. I started out part-time during my senior year of high-school and then continued as a seasonal employee while in college. How did college play a

  • Over $110,000 donated to our Communities!

    We opened eight new stores in 2015, and as part of our commitment to our communities, we gave a percentage of our Grand Opening Weekend sales to local nonprofit organizations. We invited customers to join in our Grand Opening festivities, shop and support the local nonprofit so that we could write the largest donation check possible – and they did! In 2015, we donated more than $110,000 to local organizations in our new communitiesOur partners included:• Tucson, Arizona – Tucson Symphony

  • Dancing is Good for the Soul

    For almost every ballet school and company, the holidays were a magical time. It is the time for the magic of The Nutcracker. It’s a time when we see the faces of children light up with anticipation of the Sugar Plum Fairy coming on stage. We watch as little bodies restlessly twitch in theater seats, yearning to be leaping and turning with the snowflakes and flowers. And we smile and think wistfully of everything that is good and beautiful in ballet. At the Colorado Conservatory of Dance

  • 4,200 Holiday Hugs delivered in 2015!

    Our inaugural Holiday Hugs program has come to an end, and with the help of our customers, vendors and employees, 4,200 Holiday Hugs were given to local children’s hospitals across the country. These hugs gave many children staying in each of these hospitals a moment to celebrate and just be a kid. We just love these stories a child life specialist shared about two of their special kids that benefitted from our Holiday Hugs program. “On Christmas morning a terminally ill child woke up with his