Alexandra Richber
"You did your A-levels and you're learning to be a shop assistant?" Alexandra Richber had to listen to this question, an expression of incredulous amazement, several times. But she was not deterred. Today, she runs two REWE stores as a self-employed saleswoman.
Businesswomen in the co-operative
They have helped shape REWE and are also actively involved in the committees of the co-operatives. But although they are at least as successful as their male colleagues, they are quantitatively in the minority: REWE's saleswomen. We asked Sylvia Stilleke and Kathrin Gödecke why this might be the case.
For Semai Akale, a Hessian with Eritrean roots who has successfully managed a REWE store in Mainz since 2018, multiculturalism is "not really an issue at all". A conversation about how life with three brothers prepares you for self-employment and how to mould career changers into senior managers.
REWE saleswoman Manuela Kimes
REWE Kimes received the "Store Team of the Year" award at Supermarket Stars 2022: good atmosphere, many applicants, hardly any staff turnover. REWE saleswoman Manuela Kimes revealed how this can work these days.
one_Podcast #23
In the one_Podcast, we ask colleagues every two weeks what their current topics are. This time around, Tanja Friesen, a nahkauf saleswoman in Trabelsdorf near Bamberg, reveals how she has been involved with "Ein Herz für Kinder" for many years, why she always looks forward to Berlin and what her personal charity highlights have been.
Katrin Feiertag/Kathrin Bräuer
One from the deep West, the other from East Germany, one the scion of a merchant's family, the other a latecomer. But the two REWE shop assistants Katrin Feiertag and Kathrin Bräuer have much more in common than their first names.
450. Market opened in Meudt
Cicek Kaya recently opened her first Nahkauf store in the small town of Meudt in the Westerwald. It is the 450th in Germany, and she reveals here why she deliberately chose REWE's Nahkauf brand.