Solving Food Insecurity One Dollar at a Time ft. Dollar General's Vice President of Food and Fresh Allen Warch

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Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, Erika talks with Allen Warch, Vice President of Food and Fresh at Dollar General, about how the company is transforming itself from a discount retailer to a fresh food access point — tackling food insecurity, expanding into rural America, and making produce affordable. Plus, a little soccer talk and a look at how mission-driven culture scales.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.0	All right, welcome back to work.
0:07.0	We have a super special episode today.
0:09.0	We have Alan Warsh, who is the vice president of Food and Fresh at Dollar General joining me.
0:15.0	I'm a big Dollar General fan for a ton of reasons, mostly because they're in every city and town in this country,
0:23.4	not literally, but there's $20,000 general retail locations across this country. They are a mission
0:29.9	led company, and they are deeply, deeply focused on delivering for communities in the place and with
0:36.3	the goods the community needs most.
0:38.7	Alan and I have an awesome conversation about what it's like working at Dollar General,
0:43.4	what that mission is, how he thinks about the Golden Rule when he's thinking about
0:48.1	leading his team and serving the communities around him.
0:51.5	And then we have a bigger conversation about food prices and food scarcity in America and how
0:57.6	companies like Dollar General can help.
1:00.2	And then finally, he gives a lot of advice about starting your career in retail and what you
1:06.1	can do with it and where that can take you.
1:10.1	Work.
1:18.5	Now work. Boss. and where that can take you. All right. I'm here with Alan. Alan, I'm going to let you introduce yourself, and then I have about
1:22.7	17,000 questions. Okay, that's great. No pressure. I'm Alan Wark, I'm the vice president of Food and Fresh for Dollar General, and me and my team
1:33.3	really focus on the assortment, the promotion strategy, pretty much the end-to-end of the
1:38.3	merchandise that you find in our stores.
1:40.3	Okay.
1:41.3	And that's the center store products that you find, You know, so pasta, cereal, things like that.
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