with me is the president of wegman's, colleen wegman. welcome to the show.for coming on. >> thank you, melissa, for having me why are you doing this? you're a business owner. you have to say in business and make money. it seems like this would definitely cut into your bottom line. >> well, we've thought about this kind of a price freeze for about three years now. it deban -- began in 2009 with the economic downturn where we realized that people were going to need help. there was a lot of uncertainty and we wanted to give people something they could count on. so we felt this was one of the best ways that we could help people. and at that time, we developed a list for a year. since then we realized we could be more flexible and relevant if we had a seasonal list in place. so that's what we're announcing today. is a winter list. melissa: yeah. but part of the way that you stay in business is by employing people, help people by employing people and staying in business. >> that's exactly right. melissa: so i have to worry if you're cutting into your own bottom li

ehg health care services, boston consulting group and wegman's market. >> wegmans is interesting.you talk to people who know wegmans, it's like a cultural thing. >> i love wegmans. >> i went to cornell. love wegmans. >> the employees feel that way, too. we rate the survey on what the companies say about their employers. the workers here cheer lead. they get tons of rewards. employees get to give each other perks and benefits and anytime someone gets a compliment from a shopper, they get an extra break or time off or paid vacation or something like that the. >> and also, they bring in a lot of relatives, too. >> yes. something like one out of five employees is related. >> what about boston consulting? >> this is an interesting company. this isn't a crazy campus. what it is is a company that really, really treats its employees very well. they have all sorts of systems in place for someone who is working too much. in the consulting world, somebody can burn out. a lot of companies are encouraging, volunteering and working through nonprofit. they will offer new employees. you can defer

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. >> let's talk about wegman's, man. turnover is low. what is wegman's doing right?other gift cards. relatives work there. it's another one of these places. it's not like the hr -- most companies, the hr departments, what do they do, they fill out forms. i'm sorry to the hr people out there, but it's true. the hr departments at these companies work as hard -- hello, right, they actually work it. >> ibm said the single most important hire you make is head of your hr department. >> he knew what he was doing. >> wegman's and a google, a grocerier and one of the biggest companies in the world. when you rank these things, how do you reconcile? >> well, we have a whole quantitative and qualitative way of doing this. a great place to work and institute in san francisco goes through and surveys employees and they also have a way of looking at the various benefits. but they're both service companies, right? there are a lot of service companies. you don't see a lot of smokestack companies in here. a lot of silicon valley companies. >> joe wants to know, how important is the fo

the accident happened at a warehouse on wegman road.olice say he was trying to signal the truck driver that he was backing into the wrong spot when he was hit. >>> around 5,000 sandbags were filled today by the california conservation corp. and are now ready to be placed in east palo alto. shovel full by shovel full crews loaded the sandbags. they're going to be placed around san franciscito creek tomorrow. the creek flooded last year. >>> we have no dense fog advisories tonight. but the dewpoint about 43 degrees so the temperature drops in the next half hour to 43 and you get fog. you're going to see fog in the area again tonight. some frost showing up in locations. 37 for an overnight low in santa rosa. that's as cool as it's going to go. these temperatures are going to be cool. we have clouds which is going to keep the temperatures there. there's a chance for sprinkles as well. when i come back i'm going to tell you the forecast for the coldest spots as we get into thursday and friday and then we'll look at the computer model the lat

the accident happened at a warehouse on wegman road.uck driver that he was backing into the wrong spot when he was hit. >>> around 5,000 sandbags were filled today by the california conservation corp. and are now ready to be placed in east palo alto. shovel full by shovel full crews loaded the sandbags. they're going to be placed around san franciscito creek tomorrow. the creek flooded last year. >>> we have no dense fog advisories tonight. but the dewpoint about 43 degrees so the temperature drops in the next half hour to 43 and you get fog. you're going to see fog in the area again tonight. some frost showing up in locations. 37 for an overnight low in santa rosa. that's as cool as it's going to go. these temperatures are going to be cool. we have clouds which is going to keep the temperatures there. there's a chance for sprinkles as well. when i come back i'm going to tell you the forecast for the coldest spots as we get into thursday and friday and then we'll look at the computer model the latest one for those rain drops, i'll see y

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. >> wegman's instituted a price freeze for more than 50 products shoppers by through winter months. they will remain in effect even if costs go up for the product. that's the latest from the fox business, giving you the power to prosper. lori: a lot of questions today. 112th congress is taking a bow but to how much applause? this congress adjourns to the least productive congress on record. melissa: less is more. lori: exactly. what can we expect as the new congress is sworn in lou dobbs is here. we've got all kinds of questions. melissa: lori has to the a lot of questions. let her take it away today. lori: speaker boehner regains his speakership i'm sort of sarcastically if he really wants his job still? >> aren't you thrilled for the man? this is a position of the great power. he sits three steps from the presidency. my goodness --. lori: his party is in disarray. what a last couple of years they have had. boy. >> the idea this guy who had his posterior kicked by the president, by his own party, you know, you have got to wonder what is going through his mind. why would you want th

wegman's is on it. is that the kind of thing people want to see increasingly out of big businesses? gallup poll shows that the approval rating for big business in america is 19%, right around where congress is. >> yeah. >> so it's not very well esteemed. business does great good in the word, creates value, creates prosperity, helping lift humanity up and progress. and we need to get business past this idea that it's all about the bottom line. businesses have to make money to be sure. but they need a higher transcendent purpose. >> two things are going, one is how do businesses perceive themselves, how does society perceive businesses. you're trying to instill corporate culture and also a different way of thinking about what they do. >> that's absolutely correct. we want to change the narrative about business, the way people think about business and then the way business is practiced. >> think about besides obviously whole foods, besides obviously whole foods, we don't want to make this a whole commercial for your company which we love but what are other companies that practice consc