Check out your Company Bowl for anonymous work chats.
Bowling is even more fun when it benefits a worthy cause. Team Job Lot raised funds and laced up their bowling shoes to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ocean State. Great job, team!
Our Buy, Give, Get program is back - and we'd like to extend our appreciation to the Cape Cod Times for spreading the word.
There are 120,000 books headed to elementary schools in Houston, TX thanks to the packing power of high schoolers in RI and a donation from our Charitable Foundation. Special thanks to students from Bishop Hendricken, Lincoln School, Moses Brown, North Kingstown High School, Rocky Hill School and St. Mary Academy-Bay View!
We enjoyed having Shiina LoSciuto and Corey Welch from WPRI visit our company headquarters to interview OSJL CEO Marc Perlman and check out our distribution center expansion. You can check out their coverage here.
Marc Perlman, co-founder and CEO of Ocean State Job Lot, was interviewed by Patrick Anderson and photographed by Glenn Osmundson from The Providence Journal.
We're 40 years old! We've come a long way since 1977 - and we're still growing today. Check out this video for a flashback to our early days and a look ahead to Job Lot's future.
Team Job Lot was out in full force at Flames of Hope in support of the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation. Our associates (some in pink pumps!) ran and walked through downtown Providence, RI for this great cause. Check out the video we created to show our support!
This morning, members of the OSJL Wellness Committee helped set up for the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation's Flames of Hope event. Team OSJL will be there on Sunday morning for all the races - and we hope to see you there!
With associates in 127 stores across eight states, it's always a great day when the store leadership team meeting brings so many colleagues together.
Two of our core values are to communicate professionally and candidly, and to embrace diversity. With these values in mind, we've partnered with Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island to offer English as a second language courses to our associates. Spanish as a second language courses will also be offered soon. We hope everyone enjoyed today's ESL class!
