294: Devon Broglie

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

At the time of this interview, Devon Broglie was the Associate Global Beverage Buyer for Whole Foods Market. He is based in Austin, Texas.

NOTE: Several years after this interview was recorded, in the fall of 2020 Devon Broglie resigned from the Chair of the Court of Master Sommeliers Americas amid accusations of an inapropriate sexual relationship, as was reported in "The New York Times". More information regarding this may be found here and here.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Thank you.
0:29.0	Devon Broly on the show, the assistant global beverage buyer for Whole Foods. Hello, sir, how are you?
0:30.0	I'm great.
0:31.0	Thanks for having me.
0:32.0	So you're based in Texas, and you work for Whole Foods.
0:34.8	Yes, so I live and work at the global offices in Austin, but my position, I really, I probably could
0:41.9	live anywhere in the US but because the global offices are here in Austin
0:45.7	This is where I'm located and yeah I love living in Austin
0:50.0	What's the day-to-day like for someone who works on Global for Whole Foods?
0:54.0	Okay, so globally, I'm the assistant Global Beverage Buyer.
0:58.0	I have a boss that I report to who's the Global Beverage Buyer.
1:00.0	The two of us work, we work basically, we say global, we have stores in the UK and Canada,
1:07.0	and Doug Bell, who's my boss and I, we coordinate all the programming for all of the wine and beer for the country.
1:16.3	And what that is for us is there's the two of us that work nationally and then we have 11 regional
1:21.6	buyers and then every single store has a wine specialist in it.
1:24.8	So we coordinate a core list of items and we do national programming
1:30.9	with specific items.
1:32.4	But then a lot of our job is coaching
1:35.0	our regional buyers and connecting with our store specialists truly to inform
1:40.8	the decisions that they're making at the store level to really highlight the decisions that they're making at the store level to really
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