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  • Partnering with Make-A-Wish

    We loved partnering with the North Texas chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation to help them get ready for a fun Art Party they were hosting for some local children! Make-A-Wish Foundation works to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy.Once a month, Make-A-Wish of North Texas hosts an Art Party for the children and their siblings at their facility. The party is a chance for kids to take a break from

  • Brain Health Q&A with Our President

    We sure know our president & COO Melissa Reiff works smart and works hard! She recently answered some questions from the Center for Brainhealth’s founder and director Dr. Sandi Chapman about how The Container Store’s focus on brain health is helping to build smarter employees, and why our definition of “smart” has changed. Visit the Center for Brainhealth’s blog to read the full Q&A with Melissa! We have partnered with the Center for Brainhealth in Dallas to support their annual lecture series,

  • Spring Organization – What We Stand For

    Here at The Container Store, we stand for our EMPLOYEES FIRST in all that we do. By putting employees first, our customers’ lives are improved with great service and the gracious gift of organization delivered by happy, well-trained salespeople. And when our employees and customers are happy, well, the rest of our stakeholders are too — our vendors, the community, shareholders — everyone! A commitment to simultaneously balancing the needs of ALL of our stakeholders has been our way since 1978.

  • Dallas Men Against Abuse Rally

    We’d like to invite all Dallas-Fort Worth area men to join Garrett Boone – our Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus – at the Men Against Abuse Rally at Dallas City Hall Plaza. Dallas’ Mayor, Mike Rawlings, is calling for 10,000 men – including fathers, sons and grandsons – to join him this Saturday, March 23rd at 10 a.m. to take a stand against domestic violence. Mayor Rawlings has organized this event to speak out against the senseless acts of domestic violence taking place in Dallas, and around

  • Our Annual Chili Cook-Off!

    A longstanding tradition at our home office and distribution center is our annual Chili Cook-Off – a spirited competition that celebrates the end of our fiscal year with creativity, teamwork, and good old-fashioned home cooking! This was our 20th Annual Chili Cook-Off and it is like no Chili competition you’ve ever experienced – we’re not just talking a few crock pots and cast iron skillets.Each department begins preparing months in advance for this special event. They each pick a fun theme of

  • She’s Cancer Free!

    In the fall of 2011 Ruben C., a long time employee of our San Antonio store, found out his oldest child Meg was diagnosed with a Ewing Sarcoma – a type of cancer that forms in bone or soft tissue. She spent many weeks receiving chemotherapy at the Children’s Cancer and Blood Center at Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio as part of her treatment. The Cancer and Blood Center is an outpatient clinic located just next door to the hospital. It provides kids with cancer treatment, as well as

  • Dallas-Area Students Volunteer so Children Can Play

    We are students at The Hockaday School and volunteer at an incredible organization called New Beginnings – a shelter that provides a safe place for women and children who have been the victims of domestic violence. Unlike ordinary shelters, New Beginnings does not give accommodations based on gender, which allows families to remain together in one room. The shelter also supports the women and their children during this harsh, transitional phase of their life by providing counseling and helping

  • An Outstanding Employee Who Set His Family up for Success

    Any parent would be proud to say that they have FIVE children who attended college, let alone Ivy League schools, and who went on to have prestigious careers in medicine, law, education and banking. But our distribution center employee of 10 years – Lucio P. – is prouder than most, because he had to overcome seemingly impossible odds to make this a reality for his children.Lucio was born in Mexico and taken out of school by his grandfather when he was 6 years old to work in the fields on a farm.

  • Our Florida Nonprofit Partners

    You may have heard that we’re opening three new stores in Florida – in Tampa, Orlando and Boca Raton! We’ll celebrate each store’s Grand Opening Weekend by donating 10% of that store’s weekend sales to a local nonprofit organization. We have partnered with three incredible organizations in each of these new cities, that are improving their local communities every day! Our Tampa store opens March 16th and the Junior League of Tampa is our weekend beneficiary. The League reaches out to women of

  • Hugs for All on We Love Our Employees Day!

    We had so much fun celebrating our wonderful employees at our stores, home office and distribution center on National We Love Our Employees Day! Watch our video and check out our photo gallery to see employees’ reactions to this fantastic day of appreciation, recognition, fun, love and hugs! Did you even know there were so many different types of hugs? From our Vice Presidents serving breakfast to employees in our home office, to our store employees being treated to a hot cocoa break with all

  • And the Winners Are…

    Congratulations to the 10 winners of our We Love Our Employees Day “Share the Love and a Hug” giveaway – Marchand, Susan M., Bethany S., Nancy, Caryn, David, Matthew M., Donna T., Susan R. and Patricia H.! Their comments were randomly selected as winners, and they’ll each be receiving a $100 Store More card from The Container Store! A special thank-you goes out to all of our AMAZING customers and vendors for sending “hug notes” to our employees on our blog, through the mail, and in our stores.

  • We’re Tops in Las Vegas!

    The Container Store in Las Vegas is thrilled and proud of our #2 Small Company ranking on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2013 list of Top Workplaces! We opened in May of 2012 and since that amazing Grand Opening weekend, we’ve been so happy with the positive reception we’ve received from our new community in Las Vegas! Read more about our fabulous store in this feature story from the Review-Journal. Not only do we offer a beautiful assortment of storage and organization solutions, but we have