Company Blog
Friendships
by Adam Zack — January 11, 2023
“Friends help pick you up when you are down.”
Just like in your personal life, your business life success comes from successful friendships and relationships. There are a handful of people in all our lives that would do anything for us and conversely we would do anything for. The no questions asked kind of friends. They are not quid pro quo relationships. They are unequivocally based on trust and care. It’s been said that friends should never start a business together. That doing so is the formula for ending the friendship or failing the business. And while it’s true that that has happened in the past, and I have seen it first hand, some very successful businesses were started by friends. Apple. Google. Microsoft. Friendships in your business – with your vendors, your customers and your employees are key to independent grocery success. They help pick you up when you’re down. They defend you from your detractors. They go the extra mile all the time. They consider you a friend and aren’t embarrassed to ask for favors or admit when they’ve made a mistake. They make you profitable and in turn you provide them livelihood and nourishment. I’m happy every day to be surrounded by friends at work. Vendors who I talk punk rock music with. Employees who come to me for advice and share happiness’ and challenges in their lives. It’s a place of comfort and emotion that if it was absent would make life lonely and unfilled. Thank you for being a friend. I won’t let you down.
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